Hekatomnos

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Coin of Hekatomnos (Museum of Underwater Archeology in Bodrum )

Hekatomnos of Mylasa (* before 400; † around 376 BC) was an ancient ruler in Caria (on the southwest coast of today's Turkey ). He ruled between 392 and 376 BC. And was the founder of the Carian dynasty of the Hecatomnids . His sons were Maussolos (famous for his tomb Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ), Idrieus and Pixodaros , his daughters Artemisia II and Ada ; nothing is known about his wife and mother of the children.

The father of Hekatomnos was Hyssaldomos, priest-king of the Carian city Mylasa (today's Milas ). The Persian King Artaxerxes II raised it around 392 BC. Chr. As satrap (provincial governor) over part of the empire and ordered him to raise an army. Together with Autophradates , satrap of neighboring Lydia , he was then to pull against the rebel leader Euagoras , who wanted a unified Cyprus . But the sea battle was not successful. Rumor has it that Hekatomnos offered financial assistance to his enemy. The German historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884) emphasized that Hekatomnos was "only the Persian satrap in name", but otherwise "as good as independent".

Nevertheless, Hekatomnos was given control of Miletus by Artaxerxes , the largest Greek settlement in Asia Minor. Like his son Maussolus, Hekatomnos was very impressed by the culture of the Greeks and sent his youngest son Pixodaros to Athens . But his religion was always that of the Carians. On coins he characterize let himself find pictures of Carian chief god Zeus Labraundos whose sanctuary in Labraunda stood.

According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates (436–338 BC), Hekatomnos is said to have planned a rebellion against the king of the Achaemenid Empire . However, Hekatomnos died (around 376 BC) before he could carry out his plans and was succeeded by his eldest son Maussolos, who married his sister Artemisia II. In one of the sibling marriages customary at the time .

The ruling house founded by Hekatomnos was to rule Caria for more than half a century.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jonah Lendering: Hecatomnus of Mylasa . In: Livius.org (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hekatomnos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Carian ruler
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 377/376 BC Chr.