Apollonios (son of Menestheos)

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Apollonios ( Greek  Ἀπολλώνιος ), son of Menestheos, was a governor of the Seleucids in the 2nd century BC. Chr.

Under Seleucus IV (187-175 BC) Apollonios officiated as successor to Apollonius, son of Thraseas , as governor ( strategos ) in Koilesyria and Phenicia . 170/169 BC He appeared in Alexandria as the envoy of Antiochus IV when Ptolemy VI took over the reign . on.

Apollonios, son of Menestheos, was probably identical with that Apollonios, who was already 173 BC. Appeared as a Seleucid ambassador in Rome . Probably only after 170/169 BC. In BC he fell out of favor with Antiochus IV, whereupon he had to go into exile in Miletus . His sons were Apollonios, Meleager, Menestheos and Lachares, the first three of whom in Rome belonged to Demetrios I's entourage and were decisively involved in his escape.

literature

  • Dov Gera: Judaea and Mediterranean Politics, 219 to 161 BCE In: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies , Vol. 8 (1998), pp. 261-265.

Remarks

  1. ↑ 2 Makk 4,4  EU .
  2. ↑ 2 Makk 4.21  EU . Werner Huss ( Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC , CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 542) dates this event to the year 175 BC. Chr.
  3. ↑ Titus Livius 42, 6, 6–12.
  4. ↑ Polybios 31, 13, 3. Polybios dates the exile of Apollonios directly to the accession of Antiochus IV. In 175 BC. BC, which according to 2 Makk 4,21 cannot be correct, see Gera, Judaea and Mediterranean Politics , p. 263.
  5. ↑ Polybios 31, 13, 2-3. The son Menestheos received around 150 BC Attic citizenship, see Inscriptiones Graecae II² 982. For Lachares see Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum XXXVII 991.
personal data
SURNAME Apollonios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀπολλώνιος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the Seleucids in Koilesyria and Phenicia
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.