Azemilkos

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Azemilkos ( Greek  Ἀζέμιλκος ; † after 332 BC) was the king of Tire during the time of the Alexander move .

Like all other Phoenician city kings, Azemilkos was a vassal of the Persian Achaemenid Empire and had commanded since 334 BC. The fleet of Tire fighting against Alexander the great . He was subordinate to the Persian fleet commander Autophradates . When Alexander in the spring of 332 BC BC invaded Phoinikien most of the cities submitted to him without a fight, such as Sidon , Byblos and Arados , whose kings withdrew with their ships from the Persian naval unit and went over to Alexander. A delegation from Tire refused the conqueror access to the new town, which was located on an island in front of the old town, whereupon the latter began their siege . Azemilkos was still on the high seas at that time and was therefore not involved in these events. He reached the city with his ships when the siege was already underway.

When Tire in July 332 BC Was stormed, Azemilkos fled with an embassy from the Tyrian daughter city of Carthage to the temple of Melkart , who was equated by the Greeks with Heracles . According to Arrian's account , Alexander spared the lives of those who fled to the temple asylum while the male population was killed and the women and children put into slavery. Diodorus reported that Alexander deposed the king ( called Straton by him ) and replaced him with a certain Ballonymos . Obviously he had erroneously moved the story of Abdalonymos' appointment as king from Sidon to Tire.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 2:15 , 7.
  2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 2, 24, 5.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 17, 46, 6-47, 1.
predecessor Office successor
Euagoras King of Tire
around 340-332 BC Chr. 		?
personal data
SURNAME Azemilkos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Tire
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 332 BC Chr.