Eunostus (Soloi)

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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.

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  1. Athenaios 13, 576e; Eustathios of Thessalonica , Commentary on Homer , Iliad 23, 826, p. 1332, 4th
  2. Arrian , FGrH 156, F 10, 6.
  3. ^ Arrian, Indike 18, 8.
  4. Athenaios 13, 576E.
  5. Biography of Eirene by Christopher Bennett