Krokos (strategist)

Krokos ( Greek Κρόκος ) was in the 2nd century BC. BC governor of Cyprus and naval commander of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt .

Krokos is based on three inscriptions dating between the years 131 and 124 BC. BC, handed down as governor (strategos) of Cyprus and naval commander ( nauarchos ) . He thus officiated as the successor to Seleucus, son of Bithys . During his tenure, the civil war between Cleopatra II and Ptolemy VIII fell , who had his temporary power base in Cyprus. On an inscription, the title of governor is given the addition autocrator , which identifies him as the holder of extensive rulers, comparable to those of a viceroy . Apparently Ptolemy VIII had given him these powers so that he could concentrate on waging war himself.

After the end of the civil war, Krokos is once again attested in inscriptions, but now no longer in the governor's office, but as a trusted follower (hypermachos) of the king, whom he must have followed to Alexandria . His successor in office in Cyprus was Theodoros , the son of his predecessor.

literature

Wilhelm Dittenberger : Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae , Volume 1 (1903), No. 140, p. 221.
TB Mitford: Seleucus and Theodorus. In: Opuscula Atheniensia , Vol. 1 (1953), pp. 130-171.
TB Mitford: The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens , Vol. 56 (1961), p. 28.
Roger S. Bagnall: The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt. In: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Vol. 4 (1976), p. 259.

Remarks

^ TB Mitford: The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos , In: The Annual of the British School at Athens , Vol. 56 (1961), p. 28, no. 74 . Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13, 573 . Inscriptions de Délos 1528 = OGIS 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Crocus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Κρόκος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Governor of the Ptolemies of Cyprus and naval commander
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[1] TB Mitford: The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos , In: The Annual of the British School at Athens , Vol. 56 (1961), p. 28, no. 74 . Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13, 573 . Inscriptions de Délos 1528 = OGIS 140.