Hecataios of Kardia

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Hekataios ( Greek  Ἑκαταῖος ; † between 323 and 309 BC) was a tyrant of the Polis Kardia on the Thracian Chersonesos (today: Gallipoli ) in the 4th century BC. Chr.

Hekataios ruled Kardia during the lifetime of King Philip II of Macedonia . Whether he was already in 342 BC BC ruled when Kardia had opposed the sovereignty of Athens is unclear. The father of the young Eumenes had taken tyranny as an occasion, probably around 350 BC. To exile to the Macedonian court. Eumenes rose there as a secretary in the royal service and became a confidante of King Alexander the Great . He had worked on this in vain because of a liberation of Cardias from tyranny, probably because Hekataios had proven himself to be a reliable vassal to Alexander. Presumably he was identical to that Hecataeus who died in 336 BC. Was sent by Alexander to Asia Minor in order to eliminate his intimate enemy Attalus , with which he should have proven his devotion to the new king.

Hekataios still lived in the year of Alexander's death in 323 BC. In the autumn of this year he was sent by Antipater to Asia Minor to call General Leonnatos , who was just there, with his troops to Europe, for the fight against Athens in the Lamian War . On this occasion he brought the offer of marriage from Princess Cleopatra to him . Eumenes, who was staying in the wake of Leonnatos, withdrew from him, despite the request to follow him to Greece, because he feared that he would be killed there by Antipater on behalf of Hecataeus.

Kardia was born in 309 BC. Destroyed by Lysimachus , at the latest by this time Hekataios should have died.

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SURNAME Hecataios of Kardia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ἑκαταῖος; Hekataios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrant of Cardia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 323 BC BC and 309 BC Chr.