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Spitamenes

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Spitamenes 

Sogdian military commander.

The leader of an uprising in Sogdiana and Bactria against Alexander the Great in 329 B.C., Spitamenes was killed in 328 by nomad leaders who feared Alexander’s vengeance. The uprising led by Spitamenes was quelled only in 327 B.C.



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