Sirras

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Sirras ( Greek  Σίρρας ; also written Sirrhas or Irrhas ) was an Upper Macedonian prince, probably of the Elimiotis region , in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC.

Sirras was the father of Eurydice , who lived around 390 BC. With the Macedonian king Amyntas III. married and the mother of kings Alexander II , Perdiccas III. and Philip II was. This is evident from three contemporary inscriptions from Aigai (Verina) . With Strabo we learn that the maternal grandfather of Eurydice was the lynkest prince Arrhabaios I , whose daughter "Irra" was married to an unspecified man. This information is generally understood as a spelling mistake by Strabons, who mistakenly transferred the name of the son-in-law to the daughter of the lynkest prince.

There is disagreement over the question of the origin of Sirra, which is made more difficult by an assertion by Plutarch , who described Eurydice as an Illyrian . Karl Julius Beloch doubted this and suspected a prince of the Orestis in Sirras without being able to substantiate this with evidence. On the other hand, Johann Gustav Droysen and Otto Abel recognized him as a prince of the Upper Macedonian landscape of Elimiotis , as a son of Prince Derdas I , a theory that Fritz Geyer among others agrees with. This thesis is based on a remark by Aristotle , who reports of a war between King Archelaos I and Sirras and an Arrhabaios (probably his brother-in-law Arrhabaios II ), in which the king married one of his daughters to the prince of Elimiotis. According to Geyer, this marriage project represented a peace treaty between the king and his two opponents, whereby the Elimioten prince must have been Sirras, who must have rejected his first wife, Lynkestin, for the hand of the king's daughter.

The family connections of the Sirra to Fritz Geyer:

 
 
 Arrhabaios I,
Prince of Lynkestis
 
 
 
 Derdas I.
Prince of Elimiotis
 
 Archelaus I,
King of Macedonia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Arrhabaios II,
Prince of Lynkestis
 
 daughter
 
 Sirras
Prince of Elimiotis
 
 daughter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eurydice
 
 Amyntas III.
King of Macedonia
 
 Derdas II.
Prince of Elimiotis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Argead
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In addition to an Orestinian or Elimiotic descent of the Sirra, there are also representatives in historical research who favor an Illyrian or lynkestian.

literature

  • Fritz Geyer: Macedonia up to Philip II's accession to the throne. In: Historische Zeitschrift , Vol. 30 (1930), pp. 1–148.
  • Famoula Papazoglou: Les origines et la destinée de l'état illyrien: Illyrie Proprie Dicti , In: Historia , Vol. 11 (1965), pp. 143-179.
  • NGL Hammond: The Kingdoms in Illyria circa 400-167 BC In: The Annual of the British School at Athens , Vol. 61 (1966), pp. 239-253.
  • NGL Hammond: A History of Macedonia , Vol. 1 (1972)
  • AB Bosworth: Philip II and Upper Macedonia , In: The Classical Quarterly , Vol. 21 (1971), pp. 93-105.
  • Ernst Badian : 'Eurydike' , In: WL Adams and EN Borza (eds.): Philip II, Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Heritage (1982).

Remarks

  1. ^ Strabo 7, 7, 8.
  2. ↑ Plutarch , Moralia 14b = De liberis educandis 20. Taking this up, Libanios , Vita Demosthenis 9.
  3. ^ Karl Julius Beloch : Greek History , Volume 3, Part 2 (second edition, 1923), pp. 78–79.
  4. ↑ Johann Gustav Droysen : Alexander the Great (1833, reprint 2011), p. 60. Otto Abel : Macedonia before King Philip (1847), p. 196.
  5. ↑ a b See Geyer, pp. 79–80.
  6. ↑ Aristotle's Politics 5, 10.
  7. ↑ For the Illyrian descent see, among others: Papazoglou, pp. 150–151; Bosworth, p. 99 and Badian, p. 103.
  8. ↑ For lynkestic ancestry, see NGL Hammond (1966), pp. 243-244 and (1972), p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Sirras
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sirrhas, irrhas; Σίρρας
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper Macedonian prince
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.