Pasikrates (Kourion)
Pasikrates ( Greek Πασικράτης ) was a king of the city-state of Kourion in Cyprus in the 4th century BC. He is not to be confused with King Pasikrates (Stasikrates) of Soloi, who lived at the same time .
Like all kings of Cyprus, Pasikrates was a vassal of the Persian Achaemenid Empire and supported from 334 BC. BC with his ships the Persian fleet in the fight against Alexander the great . After this 333 BC. Had victorious in the battle of Issus , Pasikrates changed sides and submitted in 332 BC. Opposite to Alexander in Sidon . He then took part with his ships in the siege of Tire (332 BC) , in which his flagship, a Pentere , was sunk in the decisive attack in the port of Tire.
Pasikrates then disappears from the narrative traditions, but he was probably identical with "Pasikrates, son of aristocrates", who is attested in inscriptions only a few years later as head of the festival embassy (therorodikos) of Kourion for the Nemean games .
literature
- Waldemar Heckel : Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's Empire . Oxford et al. a. 2006. p. 193.
- Stephen G. Miller: The Theorodokoi of the Nemean Games. In: Hesperia. Vol. 57 (1988), pp. 147-163.
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| SURNAME | Pasikrates |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of Kourion in Cyprus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |