Antiochus (son of Kratidas)

Antiochus ( Greek Ἀντίοχος ; 3rd century BC), son of Kratidas, was born in 248/247 BC. An eponymous priest of Alexander and the " brother and sister gods " in Ptolemaic Egypt .

Possibly he was identical with that Antiochus, who as a "friend" (philos) of the king Ptolemy III. shortly before June 245 BC Was entrusted with the administration of Cilicia .

literature

Gregor Weber : Poetry and court society. The reception of contemporary history at the court of the first three Ptolemies (= Hermes individual writings , volume 62). Steiner, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-515-06297-1 .

Remarks

^ JP Mahaffy, JG Smyly: The Flinders Petrie Papyri. Vol. III, 1905, No. 54a ; Papyri Greci e Latini. Vol. V, 1912, No. 521, pp. 105-106 = Willy Clarysse: Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX: Addenda et Corrigenda au volume III. In: Studia Hellenistica. Vol. 25, 1981, No. 4999.

↑ Porphyrios von Tyros In: Felix Jacoby : The fragments of the Greek historians . (FGrHist), No. 260, F 43 = Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack, Leon Mooren, W. Swinnen: Prosopographia Ptolemaica VI: La cour, les relations internationales et les possessions extérieures, la vie culturelle (Nos 14479-17250 ). In: Studia Hellenistica. Bd. 21, 1968, No. 14584. See G. Weber: Dichtung und Höfische Gesellschaft. ... p. 149, note 4.

^ Jerome , Comment. in Danielem XI, 7-9; "Ciliciam autem amico suo Antiocho gubernandam tradidit et Xanthippo alteri duci provincias trans Euphrates".

personal data
SURNAME	Antiochus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ἀντίοχος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Alexander priest, governor of Cilicia
DATE OF BIRTH	uncertain: 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: 3rd century BC Chr.

[1] JP Mahaffy, JG Smyly: The Flinders Petrie Papyri. Vol. III, 1905, No. 54a ; Papyri Greci e Latini. Vol. V, 1912, No. 521, pp. 105-106 = Willy Clarysse: Prosopographia Ptolemaica IX: Addenda et Corrigenda au volume III. In: Studia Hellenistica. Vol. 25, 1981, No. 4999.