Thraseas (son of Aetos)

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Thraseas ( Greek  Θρασέας ), son of Aetos I , was a governor of the Ptolemies in the 3rd century BC. Chr.

Thraseas officiated under Ptolemy III. (246–221 BC) as governor ( strategos ) in Cilicia . This is evident from an inscription on a limestone stele that can be seen in the Mersin Museum , in which Thraseas confirmed the founding of the city of Arsinoe by his father . The inscription is from 238 BC. Dated.

An inscription from a statue base of Ptolemy IV discovered in Tire shows that Thraseas also served this king as governor in Koile Syria and Phenicia . The term of office can only roughly extend to the years between 217 and 204 BC. BC, the year Koilesyria was regained to the Ptolemies after the Battle of Raphia , and the year Ptolemy IV died.

An honor from Athens is inscribed for Thraseas . He had three sons, Ptolemy , Apollonios and Thraseas. The first two inherited him in the governorship of Koilesyrien-Phenicia, where Ptolemy changed sides to the Seleucids . The third son is documented in a civil servant position in Cyprus .

literature

  • Christopher P. Jones , Christian Habicht : A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia. In Phoenix . Volume 43, 1989, pp. 317-346.
  • Ilona Opelt , Ernst Kirsten : A document of the foundation of Arsinoe in Cilicia . In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 77, 1989, pp. 55-66 ( PDF; 713 KB ; translation of the stele by Mersin).
  • Joshua D. Sosin: P.Duk.inv. 677: Aetos, from Arsinoite Strategos to Eponymous Priest . In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy . Volume 116, 1997, pp. 141-146 ( PDF; 1.2 MB ).
  • Dov Gera: Judaea and Mediterranean Politics, 219 to 161 BCE In: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies. Volume 8, 1998, p. 29.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum XXXIX 1426.
  2. ↑ See Jones, Habicht: A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia. Pp. 335-336.
  3. ↑ supplementum epigraphicum graecum XXXIX 1596b.
  4. ↑ See Jones, Habicht: A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia. Pp. 345-346.
  5. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae II² 836.
  6. ↑ On the son of Thraseas see Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack, Leon Mooren, W. Swinnen: Prosopographia Ptolemaica VI. (= Studia Hellenistica. Vol. 21). 1968, no.14977.
personal data
SURNAME Thraseas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Θρασέας
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the Ptolemies in Cilicia and in Koilesyria and Phenicia
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.