Arganthonios
Arganthonios ( Greek Ἀργανθώνιος ) was in the 6th century BC. A ruler of ancient Tartessos , kingdom or port city on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula at the mouth of the Guadalquivir west of the Strait of Gibraltar . According to Herodotus , Arganthonios supported the Phoceans in their resistance to Cyrus during his reign . He died before the fugitive Phocaeans reached the western Mediterranean .
To the great age of Arganthonios in the ancient sources
The Tartessian ruler was famous in ancient times because of the old age he is said to have reached. After Herodotus , Arganthonios lived 120 years, 80 of which he ruled Tartessus. Anakreon tells of a king who is said to have ruled Tartessos for 150 years. Strabo , Pliny , Phlegon von Tralles and Pseudo-Lukian thought this ruler was Herodotus Arganthonios. However, Phlegon and Pseudo-Lucian do not notice the discrepancy between the messages of Herodotus and Anacreon and report that Arganthonios - according to Herodotus and Anacreon - lived 150 years. According to Silius Italicus , Arganthonios was even 300 years old. A person who reached a particularly old age was called in Greek μακροβιώτερος Ἀργανθωνίου .
Arganthonios and the Phocaeans
The Greek- Ionian Phokaia on the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor - whose inhabitants made sea voyages to the Iberian Peninsula and established trading bases in archaic times - was threatened by the Persians . According to Herodotus, Arganthonios therefore offered the Phocaiians to resettle in his kingdom on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula. When the Phocaeans refused, he generously sent them a lot of gold for building a defensive wall against the Persians. After the siege by the Persians under Harpagos around 545 BC. The Phoceans - according to Herodotus - gave up their city. They fled with their ships across the Mediterranean to their colonies in order to stay there. Many of them moved to Corsica , to Alalia, which they had founded twenty years earlier .
Remarks
- ↑ Cf. Herodotus , Historien I, 163; see. also Pliny , Naturalis historia VII, 156.
- ↑ See Anakreon , fragment 8.
- ↑ See Strabo III, 151.
- ↑ Cf. Pliny , Naturalis historia VII, 154.
- ↑ Cf. Phlegon von Tralles , Makrob . 4th
- ↑ Cf. Pseudo-Lukian , Makrob . 10.
- ↑ See Appian , Iberike 63.
- ↑ See Silius Italicus III, 396–398.
- ↑ Cf. Themistios , Orationes II, 38a.
- ↑ Cf. Herodotus , Historien I, 163.
- ↑ Cf. Herodotus , Historien I, 164-165.
literature
- Friedrich Cauer : Arganthonios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 686.
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SURNAME | Arganthonios |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀργανθώνιος (Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient ruler of Tartessus |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century BC BC or 6th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | before 545 BC Chr. |