Aetos III.

Aetos III. ( Greek Ἀετός ), son of Aetos, was a Greek official in the service of the Egyptian kings from the Ptolemaic dynasty during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

He was possibly a son, but much more likely a grandson of the strategist and priest Aetos . The Aetos, which between the years 245 and 242 BC BC was named as the commander of a Thracian mercenary division, should have genealogically stood between them. Aetos III. was founded in 203/202 BC. In the office of strategos of Cilicia and was thus probably the successor in office of his uncle Thraseas. After his cousins Ptolemy , Apollonios and Thraseas around the year 202/201 BC. After having switched to the side of the Seleucids , who were hostile to the Ptolemies , Aetos lost his office.

However, he won back the favor of King Ptolemy V and was installed in the eponymous priesthood of Alexander raised to god and the Ptolemaic kings ( Ptolemaic Alexander cult ). As such, he was named in the ninth year of the king's reign (197/196 BC) on the Rosette stone discovered in 1799 . His full title read: Priest of Alexandros , the Theoi Soteres , the Theoi Adelphoi , the Theoi Euergetai , the Theoi Philopatores and the Theos Epiphanes Eucharistos .

literature

CP Jones and Christian Habicht : A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia . In Phoenix . Volume 43, 1989.
Joshua D. Sosin: P.Duk.inv. 677: Aetos, from Arsinoite Strategos to Eponymous Priest . In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 116, 1997, pp. 141-146 ( PDF; 1.2 MB ).

References and comments

↑ Papyrus Hibeh : P.Hib. I. 33.5-6, 13. ( online ).
↑ Papyrus Duke University (. P.Duk.inv) 677; Letter from Thasis, daughter of Horos, from Krokodilôn polis to the strategist Aetos. ( online as PDF ).
^ Theoi Soteres (Ptolemaios I and Berenike I), Theoi Adelphoi (Ptolemaios II and Arsinoë II), Theoi Euergetai (Ptolemaios III. And Berenike II.), Theoi Philopatores (Ptolemaios IV. And Arsinoë III.), Theos Epiphanes Eucharistos (Ptolemy V).

personal data
SURNAME	Aetos III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ἀετός
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Strategist of Cilicia, priest of Alexander and the Ptolemies
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[1] Papyrus Hibeh : P.Hib. I. 33.5-6, 13. ( online ).

[2] Papyrus Duke University (. P.Duk.inv) 677; Letter from Thasis, daughter of Horos, from Krokodilôn polis to the strategist Aetos. ( online as PDF ).

[3] Theoi Soteres (Ptolemaios I and Berenike I), Theoi Adelphoi (Ptolemaios II and Arsinoë II), Theoi Euergetai (Ptolemaios III. And Berenike II.), Theoi Philopatores (Ptolemaios IV. And Arsinoë III.), Theos Epiphanes Eucharistos (Ptolemy V).