Skopas (strategist)
Skopas ( Greek Σκόπας ) was a strategist of the Hellenistic period.
Skopas came from Trichonion , his father's name was Sosandros. In the years 224/223 BC He was epigrammateus of the Aitolian League . He planned and led the war against the Hellenic League as strategos in 220/219 . In 212/211 he asked the Roman Empire for an alliance against Philip V. Finally, he and the strategist Dorimachus failed because of a debt crisis and fled to Egypt, where he received a high military rank from King Ptolemy IV .
For Ptolemy V he recruited in 203 or 202 the Aitoler, with whose help he in the winter of 201/200 the at Antiochus III. recaptured lost territories in Asia. In 200, however, he lost the Battle of Paneion and was besieged in Sidon until mid-199 . Skopas obtained new support from Aitolia, but was recalled in 198 by the regent Aristomenes and brought to trial in Alexandria . He was violently killed after the trial; he either committed suicide or was poisoned.
literature
- Walter Ameling : Skopas [3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 637.
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SURNAME | Skopas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Σκόπας (Greek) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Strategist of the Aitolian League and the Ptolemaic Empire |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Trichonion , Aitolia , Greece |
DATE OF DEATH | 198 BC Chr. |
Place of death | Alexandria , Egypt |