Zipoetes I of Bithynia

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Zipoetes I
Basileus of Bithynia
King of Bithynia
Reignc. 326 BC - 278 BC
PredecessorBas
SuccessorNicomedes I
Bornc. 354 BC
Died278 BC (age 76)
IssueNicomedes I
Zipoetes II
FatherBas

Zipoetes I, also Zipoites I or Ziboetes I, possibly Tiboetes I (Greek: Zιπoίτης or Zιβoίτης; lived c. 354 BC – 278 BC, ruled c. 326 BC – 278 BC) was a ruler of Bithynia.

Life

He succeeded his father Bas on the throne in about 326 BC and reigned for forty-eight years, waging successful wars with Lysimachus and Antiochus, the son of Seleucus I Nicator.[1] In 315 BC he waged war against Astacus and Chalcedon, which failed in the face of a relief army sent by Antigonus I Monophthalmus.[2] In 301 BC, after Antigonus' death, he attacked again, and was victorious, but Astacus was destroyed in the war. He founded a city which was called Zipoetium (after himself) at the foot of Mount Lypedron;[3] the exact locations of both the city and the mountain are unknown.

He lived to around the age of seventy-six, and left behind him four children, the eldest of whom,

Bithynian calendar, which was used in some places as late as the 5th century AD.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Memnon, History of Heracleia, 6, 9
  2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xix. 60
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, Z297.1
  4. ^ Memnon, 12; Stephanus, Ethnica, s.v. "Zipoition"
  5. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 61

References

  • Cohen, Getzel M. (1996), "Zipoition", The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands and Asia Minor
Preceded by Dynast and King of Bithynia
326 BC – 278 BC
Succeeded by