Pixodarus

Pixodarus or Pixodaros (in Lycian πŠ“πŠ†πŠœπŠπŠ…πŠ€πŠ•πŠ€ Pixedara; in Greek ΠιξώδαρoΟ‚; ruled 340–334 BC), was a satrap of Caria, nominally the Achaemenid Empire Satrap, who enjoyed the status of king or dynast by virtue of the powerful position his predecessors of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) created when they succeeded the assassinated Persian Satrap Tissaphernes in the Carian satrapy. Lycia was also ruled by the Carian dynasts since the time of Mausolus, and the name of Pixodarus as ruler appears in the Xanthos trilingual inscription in Lycia.

This article is about the Carian ruler. For the son-in-law of the Cilician ruler Syennesis, see Pixodarus, son of Mausolus. For the genus of beetles, see Prioninae.
Pixodarus
Portrait on Carian coinage of the time of Pixodaros.
Satrap of Caria
Reign340–334 BC
PredecessorAda
SuccessorOrontobates
HouseHecatomnids
FatherHecatomnus
Hecatomnid dynasty
(Dynasts of Caria)
c. 395–377 BCE Hecatomnus
c. 377–353 BCE Mausolus
c. 353–351 BCE Artemisia II
c. 351–344 BCE Idrieus
c. 344–340 BCE Ada
c. 340–335 BCE Pixodarus
c. 335–334 BCE Orontobates
c. 334–326 BCE Ada
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