Gordios (Cappadocia)

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Gordios was a Cappadocian nobleman, agent of Mithridates VI. and temporary de facto ruler of Cappadocia at the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st century BC Chr.

He was enlisted by Mithridates to annex Cappadocia in favor of Pontus . In 116 BC Chr. Gordios murdered Ariarathes VI on Mithridates' order . Thereupon Gordios became tutor and guardian of Mithridates' son, whom he named after the murder of Ariarathes VII as Ariarathes IX. made king of Cappadocia. Later Gordios was sent to Rome as the envoy of Mithridates and commissioned to win the king of Armenia Tigranes II for an attack on Cappadocia and the expulsion of Ariobarzanes . The Romans had this in 93 BC. Made king of the land. Sulla , then a propaetor , however, reinstated Ariobarzanes the following year and drove Gordios out of Cappadocia. In the Second Mithridatic War , deliberately brought about by the Roman Murena , Gordios was commissioned to repel his hostilities, which gave him 82 BC. Also succeeded. In the Third Mithridatic War Gordios is no longer called.

literature

  • Justin , Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, xxxviii. 1-3 (English translation)
  • Appian , Foreign Wars, "The Mithridatic Wars", 66 (English translation)
  • Plutarch , Parallel Lives, "Sulla", 5 (English translation)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The text, based on a translation of the article from the English Wikipedia dated August 16, 2012, has been expanded using individual German references.
  2. ^ Johann Samuel Publication : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order, Leipzig 1862, p. 336 books.google
  3. ^ Christian Marek, Peter Frei: History of Asia Minor in antiquity, Beck Munich 2010 p. 342
  4. ↑ Michael Henke: Cappadocia in Hellenistic times, p. 79 Master's thesis
  5. ↑ Johann Samuel Publ. General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order, Leipzig 1862, p. 337 books.google
personal data
SURNAME Gordios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cappadocian nobleman, agent of Mithridates VI.
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.