Antiochus (son of Echekratides)

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Antiochus ( Greek  Ἀντίοχος ; † between 520 and 515 BC), son of Echekratides II and Dyseris, was a prince in Thessaly in the 6th century BC.

From Aischines Antiochus was called "King of Thessalians" which probably the post of supreme commander of Thessaly federal rather ( Tagus ) was meant. In ancient historiography, this office was often equated with that of a de facto ruler. His wife Thargelia of Miletus is said to have ruled as "Queen of Thessaly" for another 30 years after his death, and 480 BC. Have entertained Xerxes I, who was traveling through Thessaly . Proceeding from this, Antiochus' term of office is set to around 520 BC. Dated.

On his father's side, Antiochus probably descended from the Aleuad dynasty , with the Echekratids being a side branch. This assumption is based on a comment on the idylls of Theocritus , who wrote of a "palace of Antiochus and Aleua ". Furthermore, his uncle Skopas II of Krannon , whose mother was descended from the Echekratids, was referred to by the Roman author Ovid as sanguis Aleuae ("from the blood of Aleua"), which ultimately must also apply to Dyseris. The Aleuads and Echekratids have thus in the 6th century BC. The rule over a palace (that of Larisa ) divided, which suggests a common relationship. In the following century Pharsalus was added to this rule .

Between the years 520 and 515 BC BC Antiochus was killed together with his uncle Skopas II during a feast in Krannon from the falling roof of the festival hall. The present poet Simonides von Keos wrote a lament ( threnos ) for his mother in which his death is mourned.

Antiochus' son was probably the one in the first half of the 5th century BC. Chr. As Tagos reigning Echekratides III.

literature

  • Eduard Meyer : Theopomps Hellenika, with a supplement about the speech to the Larisa Sea and the constitution of Thessaly. Halle on the Saale in 1909.
  • JS Morrison: Meno of Pharsalus, Polycrates, and Ismenias. In: The Classical Quarterly. Vol. 36 (1942), pp. 57-78.
  • RJ Buck: The Formation of the Boeotian League. In: Classical Philology. Vol. 67 (1972), pp. 94-101.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Scholion on the Idylls of Theokritos 16, 34.
  2. ↑ Philostratos , letter to Julia Domna ( Epistolae 73) = Aischines, Socraticus F22, In: Hermann Diels , Walther Kranz (ed.): The fragments of the pre-Socratics , 279 A 35 (Berlin 1952), Vol. II, p. 364.
  3. ↑ Anonymi Tractatus de Mulieribus XI. In: Anton Westermann (Ed.): Paradoxographoi. Scriptores Rerum Mirabilium Graeci (Brunsvigae 1839), p. 217.
  4. ↑ Ovid, Ibis 1,511.
  5. ↑ a b Thucydides 1, 111, 1.
  6. ↑ For the dating of the year of death see Meyer, p. 244.
  7. ↑ On the lament, see Aelius Aristides , Orationes 31, 2 = Simonides F 528 in: DL Page (Ed.): Poetae Melici Graeci (Oxford 1962). Quintilian ( Institutio oratoria 11, 2, 15) mentioned the death of a sister son of Scopas II when the roof collapsed.
personal data
SURNAME Antiochus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tagos of the Thessalian League
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 520 BC BC and 515 BC Chr.