query: noble_family mithrenes
supports: Mithrenes ( Armenian :  , Greek : M or M ) was an Armenian commander of the Persian force that garrisoned the citadel of Sardis . After the battle of the Granicus Mithrines surrendered voluntarily to Alexander the Great , and was treated by him with great distinction . He fought for Alexander at Gaugamela , and ironically he was fighting against an army that included his father Orontes II. After the battle , Alexander appointed him Satrap of Armenia , as his father had been . It 's not clear , however , whether Mithrenes actually managed to take control of his satrapy . According to Curtius , in his speech given at Hecatompylos in 330 BC Alexander the Great listed Armenia among lands conquered by Macedonians , implying that Mithrenes succeeded in conquering it ; on the other hand , Justin reproduced Pompeius Trogus ' rendition of a speech attributed to Mithridates VI of Pontus , which mentioned that Alexander did not conquer Armenia . In summary , Mithrenes ruled on behalf of the new Macedonian regime . However , after the death of Alexander III , Neoptolemus was made Satrap of Armenia from 323 to 321 BC. After the death of Neoptolemus , and the struggles going on with the Diadochi it seems Mithrenes not only returned to his ancestral seat but declared himself king . The Satrapy of Armenia (Old Persian: "Armina" or "Arminiya"), a region controlled by the Orontid Dynasty (570-201 BC) was one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC, which later became an independent kingdom. Its capitals were Tushpa and later Erebuni. Orontes II (Armenian:  , Yervand II) was the son of Orontes I by his wife Rhodoghune, a daughter of the Persian king Artaxerxes II. After Codomannus ascended the throne of Persia as Darius III of Persia in 336 BC, Orontes was given the Satrapy of Armenia to rule. Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC  10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great ("Aléxandros ho Mégas" ), was a king ("basileus") of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne at the age of twenty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.
candidates: argead dynasty orontid dynasty
answer: orontid dynasty