Prokles (Pergamon)

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Prokles
Portrait of Prokles, from his coinage, circa 400 BC
Native name
Prokles
Allegiance Achaemenid Empire
RankGovernor
Coin of Prokles, brother and co-ruler of Eurysthenes, as Dynast of Teuthrania and Halisarna, circa 400-399 BC. Obv: Head of Apollo. Rev: Portrait of Prokles wearing the Persian cap. Letters ΤΕΥ ("TEU", for Teuthrania). Teuthrania, Mysia. Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of Prokles right, wearing Persian headdress.
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Location of Pergamon.

Prokles (circa 400 BC) was a descendant of the exiled Spartan king

Asia Minor under the Achaemenid Empire. He was a brother of Eurysthenes
, with whom he was a joint ruler.

After his deposition in 491 BC Demaratus had fled to

Darius I made him ruler of the cities of Pergamon, Teuthrania and Halisarna. About a hundred years later Eurysthenes and his brother Prokles reigned over the same cities; their joint rule is at least attested for the year 399 BC.[1]

Grynium for Gongylos. Xenophon received some support from the descendants of Gongylos for his campaign into Asia Minor, as well as from the descendants of Demaratos, a Spartan exile who also had become a satrap for the Achaemenids, in the person of his descendant Prokles.[4][5]

The coinage of Prokles displays one of the earliest portraits of a Greek ruler on a coin.[6]

The city of Pergamon was later taken over by the Spartan general

Thibron, who was fighting against the Achaemenid Satrap of Lydia and Ionia Tissaphernes.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Xenophon, Hellenika 3.1.6
  2. ISBN 9780190618841
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  3. ISBN 9781910589595
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  4. ISBN 9780199572069
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  5. ISBN 9780190618841
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  6. ^ CNG: MYSIA, Teuthrania. Prokles. Dynast of Teuthrania and Halisarna, circa 400-399 BC. AR Drachm (13mm, 3.25 g, 5h).
  7. ISBN 9780198140993
    .

References

  • Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft
    . Vol. VI, 1 (1907), col. 1353-1354.
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