Patroclus (Admiral)

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Cape Sounion with the island of Patroklou in the background

Patroclus ( Greek  Πάτροκλος ) was a Hellenic naval commander ( Nauarch ) in the service of King Ptolemy II of Egypt .

He is probably identical with Patroclus, son of the patron who lived in 271/270 BC. As an eponymous priest of Alexander and the Theoi Adelphoi ( Ptolemaic cult of Alexander ).

During the Chremonic War against Antigonus II Gonatas , Patroclus led in 265 BC. An Egyptian fleet in the Aegean Sea , as support for Athens threatened by Antigonus . On the way he conquered Kaunos on the Carian coast , where he captured the poet Sotades . Because he had made fun of Ptolemy's sibling marriage, Patroclus had him drowned in the sea.

Then he occupied an island that was uninhabited at that time, which is off the southern tip of Attica ( Cape Sounion ), which he fortified with a fort and palisade wall. From here, Patroclus and his fleet sealed off the Saronic Gulf until Athens closed in 262 BC. Had to surrender to Antigonus. The island of Patroklos , whose former name is unknown, still bears his name today.

swell

  • Athenaios , Deipnosophistai p. 260a
  • Pausanias , Helládos Periēgēsis Book 1 Attica 1,1,1

literature

  • S. Marcel Launey: Études d'histoire hellénistique, II: L'exécution de Sotades et l'expédition de Patroklos dans la mer Égée (266 av. J.-C.). In: Revue des Études Anciennes. 1945, Volume 47, No. 1-2. Pp. 33-45 DOI: 10.3406 / rea.1945.3303 .

Individual proof

  1. ^ Hibeh-Papyri II 199 ( The Hibeh papyri: Part 1-2 [= Graeco-Roman memoirs. Volume 32; Egypt Exploration Society]. University Press, Oxford 1978).
personal data
SURNAME Patroclus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patroclus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Admiral of the Egyptian King Ptolemy II.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.