Arybbas (Epirus)

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Arybbas ( Greek  Ἀρύββας ; † after 342/41 BC) was a around the middle of the 4th century BC. Ruling king of the Molossians and hegemon of Epirus .

Arybbas came from the Molossian ruling dynasty of the Aiakids and was a son of Alketas . When his father around 370 BC Died, he initially quarreled with his probably older brother Neoptolemus about the succession to the throne, until he finally had to accept him as co-regent. After Neoptolemus some time before 357 BC. After he died , Arybbas , who was married to his older daughter Troas , became the sole king of the Molossians and guardian of Neoptolemus' younger children Olympias and Alexandros .

Around 360 BC The Illyrians fell under Bardylis - who was probably around 385 BC. BC Arybbas' then displaced father Alketas had brought back to the throne - in Epirus. The concern for better protection against such attacks in the future probably contributed significantly to the fact that Arybbas around 357 BC. BC made an alliance with the aspiring Macedonian king Philip II , who took Olympias as one of his wives to seal the pact.

Arybbas had two sons, of whom he excluded the older, Alketas , in favor of the younger, Aiakides , from the line of succession and banished them from the country. He was also the grandfather of Pyrrhus . His relationship with Philip II, who was probably striving for decisive influence in Epirus, soon developed very negatively. Even before 349 BC The Macedonian king fought against Arybbas and drove him out in 342/341 BC. Completely out of his kingdom, which now fell to Olympias' younger brother Alexandros. Arybbas was hospitable by the Athenians who - like his grandfather Tharyps and his father Alketas - granted him citizenship.

The further fate of the Arybbas and the year of his death are unknown. Julius Kaerst suspects that he died in exile. But he could also be identical with that Aryptaios , who according to Diodorus in the Lamian War (323–322 BC) as leader of part of the Molossians fought on the side of the Greeks against the Macedonians, but then switched to the side of Antipater .

At the 109th Olympic Games in 344 BC Arybbas was the winner at the Tethrippon .

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  1. ↑ Plutarch , Pyrrhos 1: 5; Pausanias 1, 11, 1.
  2. ↑ Pausanias 1, 11, 3; Justin , 7, 6, 11; Plutarch, Pyrrhos 1, 5 and Alexander 2, 2.
  3. ^ Frontinus , Strategemata 2, 5, 19.
  4. ↑ Justin 7: 6, 11f .; Satyros of Kallatis at Athenaios 13, 557b-c.
  5. ↑ Diodorus 19, 88, 1; Pausanias 1, 11, 5.
  6. ↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhos 1: 5; see. Justin 7, 6, 11.
  7. ↑ Demosthenes 1, 13.
  8. ↑ Dating according to the article Arybbas 1) . In: Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire . Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 , p. 56.
  9. ↑ Diodor 16, 72, 1 (who mistook Arybbas' expulsion for his death); Justin 7, 6, 12 and 8, 6, 7.
  10. ^ Julius Kaerst: Arybbas 1). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Sp. 1497.
  11. ↑ Diodorus 18, 11, 1.
  12. ^ Arybbas 1) . In: Waldemar Heckel: Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great , p. 56.
  13. ^ Winners list at the Foundation of the Hellenic World
personal data
SURNAME Arybbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arymbas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the Molossians and Hegemon of Epirus
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.