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This '''Otanes''' became [[satrap]] of what we now know as western Turkey<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref>.

This '''Otanes''' became [[satrap]] of what we now know as western Turkey<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref>.

He was the son of a judge named [[Sisamnes]] whom [[Cambyses II]] executed for accepting a bribe.  [[Cambyses II]] slit [[Sisamnes]] throat and flayed his skin to see it made into leather to cover the judgement seat of [[Sisamnes]] successor in that role<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref> as a perpetual reminder of duty.<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.2</ref>  [[Sisamnes]] was succeeded by his own son '''Otanes''' who was next made [[satrap]] "of the people of the coast"<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref> under [[Darius I|Dariun the Great]].

He was the son of a judge named [[Sisamnes]] whom [[Cambyses II]] executed for accepting a bribe.  [[Cambyses II]] slit [[Sisamnes]] throat and flayed his skin to see it made into leather to cover the judgement seat of [[Sisamnes]] successor in that role<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref> as a perpetual reminder of duty.<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.2</ref>  [[Sisamnes]] was succeeded by his own son '''Otanes''' who was next made [[satrap]] "of the people of the coast"<ref>[[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 5.25.1</ref> under [[Darius I|Darius the Great]].

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