Ada (Caria)

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Ada († before 323 BC) was in the second half of the 4th century BC. A hecatomnid satrap from Caria .

Life

Ada was the youngest daughter of the Carian dynast Hekatomnos . She was married to her brother Idrieus , with whom she ruled Caria after the death of her brother Maussolos († 353 BC) and her sister Artemisia († 351 BC). After Idrieus' death (344/343 BC) she exercised sole rule, but under Persian suzerainty. Around 340 BC She was overthrown by her younger brother Pixodaros . Then she withdrew to the fortress Alinda in the Carian hinterland, where she could live undisturbed for the next few years.

When Alexander the Great on his Asia campaign in the summer of 334 BC After advancing to Caria in the 3rd century BC, the childless Ada sought the support of the Macedonian king for her reinstatement as Carian regent. So she went to meet him, gave him Alinda and adopted him as a "son". The Carians did not regard him as a foreign ruler, won their sympathy and secured the legal succession. For her courtesy to the Macedonian conqueror, Ada was allowed to rule her country again. This was probably also in accordance with the maternal views of the Karer. Their capital, Halicarnassus , was defended with strong forces by Memnon and the Persian satrap Orontopates . Orontopates was in 336/335 BC Followed Pixodaros who died in the 4th century BC and married his daughter, a younger Ada. Alexander had to conquer Halicarnassus in heavy fighting, but could not take its port castle Salmakis. He moved on and left the siege of the castle to his general Asandros . Ada took part in it with Carian troops and, according to Strabo , contributed to the fact that the Acropolis fell a year later (333 BC) - which the Alexander historians keep silent .

Ada probably had the mausoleum of Halicarnassus completed first. After her death, Alexander installed the Macedonian Philoxenus as a satrap. There are no known coins of her. In 1989, her grave may have been found in Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus). Her remains were transferred to the Archaeological Museum in Bodrum.

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  1. ↑ Diodorus 16, 45, 7; 16, 69, 2; Arrian , Anabasis 1, 23, 7; Strabo 14, 2, 17, p. 656f.
  2. ↑ Diodorus 16, 74, 2; Arrian, Anabasis 1, 23, 7; Strabo 14, 2, 17, p. 656f.
  3. ↑ Strabo 14, 2.17, p. 657; see. also Arrian, Anabasis 1, 23, 7f .; 2, 5, 7; Diodorus 17, 24, 2; Plutarch , Alexander 22, 7.
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SURNAME Ada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Carian queen
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 333 BC Chr.