Adiatorix
Adiatorix ( Greek Ἀδιατόριξ ; † 29 BC in Rome ) was a prince of the Galatians .
Adiatorix was a son of Domnekleios (or Domnilaos, † 48 BC), the tetrarch of the Galatian Tosioper. According to Cicero , he was 50 BC. A business partner of Marcus Caelius Rufus , with whose agents Diogenes and Philon he met in Pessinus . This is also the first mention of the Adiatorix in the extant ancient sources. The conclusion drawn by some researchers from this testimony that Adiatorix was high priest of Pessinus is not compelling.
From the triumvir Marcus Antonius Adiatorix received around 41 BC Chr. The rulership of the Greek part of the Asian Minor city Herakleia Pontike entrusted. Shortly before the Battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC), he had all the Roman colonists of Herakleia Pontike murdered. After his final victory over Antonius, Augustus had Adiatorix listed as a prisoner in his triumphal procession (August 29 BC). After that Adiatorix was executed with his younger, unknown son on the orders of the Princeps in Rome, while his older son Dyteutos was appointed priest of the goddess Ma in Komana Pontika after the death of the former robber chief Kleon, who was sponsored by Augustus .
literature
- Christian Marek , History of Asia Minor in antiquity , CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59853-1 , p. 384; 386; 402
- Paul von Rohden : Adiatorix . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 361.
Remarks
- ↑ Strabon , Geographika 12, 3, 6, p. 542 f.
- ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 2, 12, 2.
- ^ For example, Ronald Syme : Anatolica. Studies in Strabo , ed. by Anthony Birley , Oxford 1995, p. 132.
- ↑ Strabon, Geographika 12, 3, 6, p. 542 f. and 12, 3, 35, p. 558 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adiatorix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀδιατόριξ (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Galatian prince |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Rome |