Tiboites of Bithynia
Tiboites ( Greek Τιβοίτης ; † 220 BC ) was one of the sons of King Nicomedes I of Bithynia and his second wife Etazeta (Heptazeta). Its more likely form of the name was "Zipoites" or "Zipoitas".
Due to the influence of Tiboites' mother, Nicomedes I drove his eldest son Ziaelas, from his first marriage, into exile in Armenia in order to secure the succession to the throne for their sons, which Nicomedes actually determined as testamentary heirs. But when the king died around 255 BC Tiboites and his brothers were not of age, which is why the mother first took over power and married a brother of her deceased husband. But with the support of the Galatians , Ziaelas was ultimately able to take power in Bithynia after a civil war and now, for his part, drive Tiboites into exile. He took this in Macedonia , from whose King Philip V he 220 BC. BC as a pretender against his nephew Prusias I , when he was at war with Byzantion . But Tiboites died on the way to the Hellespont .
literature
- Dennis Glew: Nicomedes' name. In: Epigraphica Anatolica. Volume 38, 2005, pp. 131-139.
Individual evidence
- ^ According to Karl Julius Beloch : Greek History. Volume 4: The Greek world domination. Part 2. 2nd edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1927, p. 213; Hatto Herbert Schmitt , Ernst Vogt : Small Lexicon of Hellenism. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag 1993, p. 98.
- ↑ Memnon of Herakleia , Perì hērakleias , FrGrHist 434, fragment 14.
- ↑ Polybios 4, 50, 1.
- ↑ Polybios 4, 51, 7.
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| SURNAME | Tiboites of Bithynia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tiboites; Zipoites; Zipoitas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pretender of Bithynia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 220 BC Chr. |