Dokimos

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Dokimos ( Greek  Δόκιμος ; † between 301 and 282 BC) was a Macedonian general during the Diadoch Wars of the 4th century BC.

Dokimos most likely took part in Alexander the Great's campaign in Asia . After his death in 323 BC He was a follower of the imperial regent Perdiccas . From this he was 321 BC. Chr. Appointed Satrap of Babylon , for which he had to fight the unreliable incumbent Archon militarily. After the end of the Perdiccas, he had to give up Babylon, for which the victors of the First Diadoch War had appointed General Seleucus as satrap at the Conference of Triparadeisos . Dokimos denied the Greek Eumenes the leadership of the Perdiccan faction and instead joined the outlawed Alketas , with whom he, however, in 319 BC. BC in Pisidia against Antigonus Monophthalmos was defeated ( Battle of Cretopolis ) and was taken prisoner. Together with his comrades-in- arms Philotas and Attalus he succeeded in 316 BC. After a revolt to take control of the rock castle in which they were imprisoned. During the siege of several months by an Antigonid army under the leadership of the Stratonike , Dokimos and Philotas were moved by her to join Antigonus. Attalos and the rest of the resistance were killed in the storming of the rock castle.

Fighting for Antigonus, Dokimos and Philotas took part in 313 BC. During the third Diadoch war took part in the conquest of Miletus . Later, Dokimos held the rule of Synnada in the Phrygia region of Asia Minor for a longer period as governor of Antigonus, including guarding his treasure. The city of Dokimeion (now İscehisar) near Synnada was probably founded by him. On the eve of the Battle of Ipsos , he went in 302 BC. Along with the city and the treasure to the side of Lysimachus . From him he received the security of Pergamon and entrusted the treasure of 9000 silver talents stored there . In Dokimos' service stood the eunuch Philetairos , who was apparently after his death before 282 BC. After death, the command of Pergamon continued alone and went down in history as the founder of the Attalid dynasty.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arrian Tà metà Aléxandron 24, 3–5.
  2. ↑ Plutarch Eumenes 8, 8; Diodorus 18, 45, 3.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 19, 16, 4.
  4. ↑ Diodorus 19, 75, 3-4.
  5. ↑ Getzel M. Cohen: The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor (= Hellenistic Culture and Society. 17). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1995, ISBN 0-520-08329-6 , pp. 295-299.
  6. ↑ Diodorus 20, 107, 4
  7. ^ Pausanias 1, 8, 1.
personal data
SURNAME Dokimos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Δόκιμος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Babylon
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 301 BC Chr.