Cleon of Gordiucome
Cleon of Gordiucome (
Asia Minor
.
Cleon made a reputation for himself with robbery and marauding warfare in and around Olympus, long occupying the fortress called by ancient geographers Callydium (Strabo) or Calydnium (Eustathius).[1] He at first courted the favour of Mark Antony, and was awarded a good deal of land in exchange. In 40 BC Cleon's forces harried an invading body of Parthians led by Quintus Labienus.[2]
Around the time of the
Cleon's rule was unsuccessful and exceedingly brief; he died only one month after his appointment.[6] In contemporary accounts, it was written that Cleon died because he ignored a taboo against eating pork in the temple precinct of Bellona.[2]
It is sometimes recorded that Cleon succeeded
Comana after the very brief reign of Medeius of Comana. Strabo suggests that Medeius and Cleon are different names for the same person, the former being the Greek name, the latter the native one.[5][7] Cleon was in any case succeeded by Dyteutus
.
References
- ^ Cramer, John Antony (1832). A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 54, 212, 307.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-815029-6.
- ISBN 90-04-14609-1.
- ISBN 0-415-23236-8.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-814943-3.
- ISBN 0-521-85306-0.
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 574, xii, 8, 8-9