Pasikrates (Soloi)

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Pasikrates ( Greek  Πασικράτης ), more likely Stasikrates ( Στασικράτης ), was a king of the city-state Soloi in Cyprus in the 4th century BC. He is not to be confused with King Pasikrates of Kourion, who lived at the same time .

After the battle of Issus in 333 BC. The Cypriot kings, who had previously been vassals of the Persian Achaemenid Empire , submitted to the victor Alexander the Great . In a theater competition organized by Alexander in Tire in 331 BC. Pasikrates appeared as the financier of a play by Athenodorus and thus won the victory against the work of Thessalus , financed by Nikokreon of Salamis , which was favored by Alexander. When the First Diadoch War broke out in 321 BC Pasikrates supported the governor of Egypt, Ptolemaios , against the regent Perdiccas . Even at the beginning of the Third Diadoch War in 315 BC Several Cypriot kings remained loyal to Ptolemy against Antigonos Monophthalmos , probably also Pasikrates, if he was still alive at the time.

Pasikrates had at least one son, Nicocles , who lived in 326 BC. Was one of the Trierarchs of the Indus fleet of Alexander the Great. His successor as king, Eunostus , was probably his son too .

identity

In both Plutarch and Arrian , in 331 and 321 B.C. King of Soloi appearing in BC known as "Pasikrates". A list of theoretical tokens for the Nemean games that existed between 331 and 315 BC. Is dated, names a "Stasikrates, son of Stasias", as head of the festival embassy (therorodikos) of Soloi at the games. From a dedicatory inscription from Larnaka it is known that he was King of Soloi. Recent historical research identifies “Pasikrates” and “Stasikrates” as one person, the latter name also being the actual name of the king. Apparently, in the narrative chronicles of Plutarch and Arrian, a name mix-up had crept in, in which Stasikrates of Soloi was confused with Pasikrates of Kourion.

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.
  • Demetrios Pierides: On a digraphic inscription found in Larnaca. In: Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archeology. Vol. 4 (1875), pp. 38-43.
  • Stephen G. Miller: The Theorodokoi of the Nemean Games. In: Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Vol. 57 (1988), pp. 147-163.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Plutarch , Alexander 29, 2-4.
  2. ↑ Arrian , Tà metà Aléxandron ( FGrHist. 156) F 10, 6.
  3. ↑ Diodorus 19:59, 1.
  4. ^ Arrian, Indike 18, 8.
  5. ↑ For the dating of the theoretical token list see Miller, pp. 160–162. The same list includes Nikokreon of Salamis and Pasikrates of Kourion. So the three people lived at the same time.
  6. ↑ Olivier Masson : Les inscriptions chypriotes syllabiques , Paris 1961, pp. 218–220, no. 212.
  7. ↑ See Pierides, pp. 41–42, and Miller, pp. 154–155.
personal data
SURNAME Pasikrates
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stasikrates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of Soloi in Cyprus
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.