Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia
Ariarathes IV, surnamed Eusebes, "the Pious", (
Early life
Ariarathes IV was the son of the
Antiochis, the wife of Ariarathes, is said to have at first borne him no children, and accordingly substituted two surrogates, who were called Ariarathes and Orophernes. Subsequently, however, it was said that she actually bore her husband two daughters and a son, who was named Mithridates, and afterwards became Ariarathes V, and then she informed Ariarathes of the deceit she had practiced upon him. The two surrogates were in consequence sent away from Cappadocia, one to Rome, the other to Ionia.[3]
Notes
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His son Ariarathes IV (220-c.162), thus half-Macedonian by blood, set the title "king" on his coins, and attached to his name the cognomen Philopator. He also introduced the device of Athena holding Nike, which became the standard reverse type of the Ariarathid coinage. […] His son Ariarathes V (c.162-130), with the cognomen Eusebes, was an ardent philhellene, and no longer wears the tiara on any of his coins. In his youth he studied in Athens, where he became friends with the future Attalus III, the last king of Pergamum. He in his turn married a Seleucid princess, his cousin Nysa, daughter of Antiochus III; and he refounded Mazaka and Tyana as Greek poleis…
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xxxi. 3; Justin, xxix. 1; Polybius, iv. 2
- ^ Livy, xxxvii. 31, xxxviii. 38, 39; Polybius, xxi. 43, 47, xxiv. 8, 9, xxv. 2, xxxi. 13, 14, 17; Appian, "The Syrian Wars", 5, 32, 42; Diodorus, xxxi. 3
References
- Appian, The foreign wars, Horace White (translator), New York, (1899)
- Hazel, John; Who's Who in the Greek World, "Ariarathes IV", (1999)
- Head, Barclay; Historia Numorum, "Cappadocia", (1911)
- Justin; Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, John Selby Watson (translator); London, (1886)
- Ab urbe condita, Canon Roberts (translator); New York, (1905)
- Polybius; Histories, , (1889)
- Settipani, Christian Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Ariarathes". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 284.