Oxyartes
1. A king of Bactria, said to have been contemporary with Ninus king of Assyria, by whom his kingdom was invaded and conquered. The history of this expedition, though doubtless a mere fable, is given in great detail by Diodorus (2.6). He appears to be the same person who is called by Syncellus and Eusebius, Zoroaster. (Syncell. p. 133; Euseb. Arm. p. 44; Wesseling, ad Dhod. l.c. Baehr, ad Ctes. p. 405.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.