Arkesilaos IV.

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Arkesilaos IV. ( Greek  Ἀρκεσίλαος ) was from about 465-440 BC. As successor of his father Battos IV. King of Cyrene .

As the Cyrenean monarchy was deprived of its most important support as a result of the decline in Persian power, its opponents rose again. Arkesilaos was initially able to put down the uprising.

Through four-team victories in the Pythias of 462 - which Pindar glorified in his 4th and 5th Pythian Ode, which at the same time allow an insight into the tense situation in Cyrene and portray Arkesilaos as a despotic ruler; admonishes the young king to mediate in the civil dispute in the interests of the city and to take back the citizen Damophilos who fled to Thebes - and the Olympic Games of 460 as well as the enlargement of the Euhesperides , which has existed since the end of the 6th century, on the Great Syrte , where he is going Colonists from the Greek motherland called, Arkesilaos wanted to strengthen his position, but without lasting success.

Under the influence of democracy, which gradually established itself in the Greek mother cities as a new, progressive form of government, the coup finally took place around 440. Arkesilaos was driven out of Cyrene and fled to Euhesperides. Before he could prepare for a military counter-attack against Cyrene from there, he was murdered, probably together with his son Battos.

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predecessor Office successor
Battos IV. King of Cyrene
465–440 BC Chr. 		-
personal data
SURNAME Arkesilaos IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἀρκεσίλαος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Cyrene
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 440 BC Chr.