Gorgippus
Gorgippus | |
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King of Sindoi | |
Reign | 389–349 BCE |
Predecessor | Hecataeus |
Successor | Comosarye I |
Born | c. 410 BCE Bosporan Kingdom |
Died | 349 BCE (aged 40+) Bosporan Kingdom |
Issue |
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Spartocid | |
Father | Satyrus I |
Gorgippus (
Gorgippia
where he ruled until, presumably, his death in 349 BCE.
Wars of Expansion
Gorgippus was a prominent figure of the
Gorgippia, after himself.[4]
In a speech against the
Spartocids. The same speech claimed that Demosthenes received a thousand bushels of grain from Gorgippus annually.[6]
Gorgippus' daughter, Comosarye, may have been of Sindian descent. She married her cousin Paerisades I, a son of Leucon and later ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom.[7]
References
- ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 55.1.
Satyrus died in the midst of an unsuccessful war; leaving his son Gorgippus to succeed him in the throne.
- ISBN 9781444334128. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
Although Satyros seems to have been succeeded jointly by his sons Leukon I and Gorgippos...
- ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 55.1.
He renounced his father's proceedings, and sued for peace, which she granted on payment of a tribute, and put and end to the war.
- ^ Brill Reference. October 2006.
and was officially named after the Spartocid Gorgippus after its integration into the Bosporus Kingdom.
- ^ Against Demosthenes. 10 October 2022.
Was it for nothing he procured brazen statues to Berisades and Satyrus, and Gorgippus, those detested tyrants
- ^ Against Demosthenes. 10 October 2022.
from whom he annually receives a thousand bushels of corn,
- JSTOR 23037564.
when the joining of the two nations had been symbolized in the marriage of Comosarye and Paerisades, he took the title "king of sindi"