# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oroetus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:05:31.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oroetus"
name: "Oroetus"
slug: "oroetus"
description: "Oroetus, or Oroetes, was a Persian Satrap of Lydia, during the reigns of Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius the Great, succeeding Harpagus, and being followed by Bagaeus. He is described by Herodotus in the third book of his Histories, where he achieved notoriety for the death of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos:What I will now relate happened about the time of Cambyses' sickness. The viceroy of Sardis appointed by Cyrus was Oroetes, a Persian. This man purposed to do a great wrong; for though he had received no hurt by word or deed from Polycrates of Samos, nor had even seen him, he formed the desire of seizing and killing him. The reason alleged by most was this: — As Oroetes and another Persian, Mitrobates by name, governor of the province of Dascyleium, sat by the king's door, they fell from talk to wrangling and comparing of their several achievements: and Mitrobates taunted Oroetes, saying, \"You are not to be accounted a man; the island of Samos lies close to your province, yet you have not added it to the king's dominion — an island so easy to conquer that some native of it rose against his rulers with fifteen men at arms, and is now lord of it. Some say that Oroetes, angered by this taunt, was less desirous of punishing the utterer of it than of by all means destroying the reason of the reproach, namely Polycrates."
tagline: "6th century BC Persian Satrap of Lydia"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Oroetes.jpg/330px-Oroetes.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "-600"
deathDate: "-560"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             4.504010559447659
  historical:           8.541613333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroetus"
    title: "Oroetus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oretes"
    title: "Oretes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroites"
    title: "Oroites"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroetus"
    title: "Oroetus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oretes"
    title: "Oretes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oret"
    title: "Oret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9"
    title: "オロイテス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orojtes"
    title: "Orojtes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oret"
    title: "Oret"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Ороитес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q971056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump