Name the contemporaries of Alexander the Great who lived in the east.

This is Darius, the king of the Persian state, defeated by Alexander and killed by his entourage, the king of Por, Roxana, who became a character in legends, the wife of Alexander and the daughter of one of the entourage of Darius (satrap Oxyartes), then – Spitamen, a Sogdian nobleman who led the resistance to Alexander’s troops. You can also remember the satrap Bessa, the murderer of Darius, who reigned for a short time after the death of Darius, another semi-legendary character – the Indian sage-gymnosophist (apparently a yoga) Kalan, who for some time accompanied the Macedonian army, but then voluntarily burned himself at the stake, predicting before that Alexander was his royal fate.



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