Eunostus (Soloi)
Eunostus ( Greek Εὔνοστος ) was at the end of the 4th century BC. City king of Soloi in Cyprus .
Eunostus was probably a son of his predecessor, King Pasikrates of Soloi, who lived in 321 BC. BC together with three other Cypriot city kings - including Nikokreon of Salamis - an alliance with the later Egyptian ruler Ptolemy I had entered into. Pasikrates' son Nicocles , who lived in 326 BC. Chr. As trierarch of the Indus fleet of Alexander the great is attested, could therefore have been Eunostus' brother. Under unknown circumstances and at a point in time that is controversial in research - the dating approaches vary between 320 and 295 BC. BC - Eunostus became the husband of Eirene , the daughter of Ptolemy I and the Athenian hetaera Thaïs . Christopher Bennett suspects that Ptolemy I met his daughter Eirene between 320 and 315 BC. I married Eunostus in order to bind this dynast to the Ptolemaic interests as the successor of his presumed father Pasikrates.
literature
- Alfred Schiff : Eunostus 4). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 1138-1140.
- Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 305 .
Remarks
- ↑ Athenaios 13, 576e; Eustathios of Thessalonica , Commentary on Homer , Iliad 23, 826, p. 1332, 4th
- ↑ Arrian , FGrH 156, F 10, 6.
- ^ Arrian, Indike 18, 8.
- ↑ Athenaios 13, 576E.
- ↑ Biography of Eirene by Christopher Bennett
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SURNAME | Eunostus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City king of Soloi in Cyprus |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |