Stratonike I.

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Stratonike I (* 317 BC ; † after 268 BC) was the only daughter of King Demetrios I Poliorketes from his first marriage to Phila , the daughter of the imperial administrator Antipater . Demetrios was the ruler of the Diadochian Empire of Macedonia .

Stratonike was founded in 300 BC. Was married to Seleukos I and became queen of the Seleucid Empire . Seleucus left in 293 BC BC Stratonike to wife his son Antiochus , because according to the later ancient tradition he became melancholy and sick through his love for her (his stepmother, who was seven years his junior ) . When the doctor examined Antiochus with Appian and Plutarch Erasistratos , Stratonike, the king's young wife, entered the room and Erasistratos then recognized from the physical symptoms of his patient that the cause of the illness was not physical suffering, but love for the unreachable stepmother was. Therefore, his father left him his young wife and the kingdom.

Numerous painters have taken up the motif of the lovesick Antiochus, including Antonio Bellucci , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Gerard de Lairesse , Johann Baptist Anwander and Johann Heinrich Schönfeld .

  • Antiochus and Stratonike ( Jacques-Louis David )

  • Lovesick Antiochus (Johann Baptist Anwander)

  • Antiochus and Stratonike (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

  • Antiochus and Stratonike (Antonio Bellucci)

  • Antiochus and Stratonike (Gérard de Lairesse)

The city of Stratonikeia , located in Caria , Asia Minor , was named after Stratonike . Her son Antiochus II ruled in 261 BC. BC to 246 BC As successor of his father Antiochus I.

literature

  • Eran Almagor: Seleukid Love and Power: Stratonike I . In: Altay Coşkun, Alex McAuley (eds.): Seleukid royal women. Creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid empire . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11295-6 , p. 67ff.
  • Ernst Badian : Stratonike [3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 1045.
  • Thomas Fischer : Again to the lovesick prince. An aspect of Hellenistic politics and history of impact. In: Gerhard Binder , Bernd Effe (Ed.): Love and Passion. Historical aspects of eroticism and sexuality (= Bonn Classical Studies Colloquium. Volume 12). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 1993, ISBN 3-88476-034-3 , pp. 123-144.
  • Annette Simonis: Stratonike. In: Peter von Möllendorff , Annette Simonis, Linda Simonis (ed.): Historical figures of antiquity. Reception in literature, art and music (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 8). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02468-8 , Sp. 951-960.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea , Chronicle 94.
  2. ↑ Appian , Syriake 59-61; Plutarch , Demetrius 38.
  3. ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea , Chronicle 95.
personal data
SURNAME Stratonike I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of King Demetrios I Poliorketes
DATE OF BIRTH 317 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 268 BC Chr.