Bas (Bithynia)

Bas ( Greek Βᾶς , born 397 or 396 BC, died 326 BC ) was a ruler of the Asian Minor region of Bithynia in the 4th century BC.

Bas was a son and successor of Boteiras and ruled from 378/377 BC. BC over Bithynia, presumably in loose dependence on the Persian Empire . He also ruled at the time when Alexander the Great began his campaign against Persia. While Alexander after the Battle of Granicus in 334 BC BC moved through what is now Central Anatolia to Cilicia , he commissioned his general Kalas to subdue the rest of Asia Minor. In Bithynia, however, Bas could not later than 327 BC BC to win over Kalas and kill him, whereby Bithynia remained independent from the Alexander Empire.

According to Photios , who quotes Memnon of Heraclea , Bas died the following year at the age of 71 after reigning for fifty years.

His son and successor Zipoites was able to assert the independence of the country against the diadochs Antigonus Monophthalmos and Lysimachos and to accept the title of king.

swell

Memnon, FrGrHist 434 F1 §12.4
Scholion in Immanuel Bekker , Anecdota Graeca p. 1181

literature

Eduard Meyer : Bas . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 36.

predecessor	Office	successor
Boteiras	Ruler of Bithynia	Zipoites

personal data
SURNAME	Bas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ruler of Bithynia
DATE OF BIRTH	397 BC BC or 396 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	326 BC Chr.