Crocus (general)
Crocus (
in the second century BC.Crocus is mentioned as governor (strategos autokrator, which indicates that he held unlimited authority, analogous to a viceroy. Ptolemy VIII probably gave him this extra power so that he could concentrate on fighting the civil war.
After the end of the civil war, Crocus is attested in one more inscription, no longer in the role of governor, but as a close associate of the king (hypermachos), whom he probably accompanied back to Alexandria. His successor in Cyprus was Theodorus, the son of his predecessor.
References
- ^ T. B. Mitford: "The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos," The Annual of the British School at Athens, 56 (1961), p. 28, no. 74. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 13.573. Inscriptions de Délos 1528 = OGIS 140.
Bibliography
- Roger S. Bagnall: The Administration of the Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt. (1976), p. 259.
- Wilhelm Dittenberger: Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae, Vol. 1 (1903), No. 140, p. 221.
- T. B. Mitford: "Seleucus and Theodorus," Opuscula Atheniensia, Vol. 1 (1953), pp. 130–171.
- T. B. Mitford: "The Hellenistic Inscriptions of Old Paphos," The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56 (1961), p. 28.