Hekataios

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Hekataios
King of the Sindike Kingdom
Reigncirca. 390-379 BC
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorLeukon I
BornUnknown
Sindike Kingdom
DiedUnknown
Unknown
Consort
IssueOktamasades
GreekἙκαταίος
HouseUnknown
FatherUnknown
MotherUnknown
For the historian from Miletus, see Hecataeus of Miletus.

Hekataios (Greek: Ἑκαταίος) or Hecataeus was the king of the Sindians[1] throughout the reign of both Satyros I and Leukon I, rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom.[2]

He was married to a daughter of Satyros, and to Tirgatao, a powerful Maeotian princess from the tribe of the Ixomatae.[3]

He was also the father of Oktamasades, who would later usurp the throne from his father, in which Leukon, seeing an opportunity to annex the Sindike, waged war on Oktamasades.

Reign[]

Not much is known about Hekataios's life or much of his reign, only that he, instead of killing Tirgatao on Satyros's advice, locked her away in a castle in which she eventually got away from.[4] Satyros and Leukon searched for her, but she eluded them.[5] She would wage war on both her former husband and Satyros,[6] forcing them to sue for peace.[7]

Losing the throne and Abdication[]

Oktamasades usurped the throne from his father, and then found himself in a war against Leukon,[8] a Bosporan king and ally of his father. Leukon had managed to drive Oktamasades into Scythia after a single battle, in which reportedly Leukon said that he “made a vow to erect a victory monument, but not to the local Apollo of Labrys, but to the supreme deity and patron of all the Bosporans, Apollo the Healer."[9] Leukon then persuaded Hekataios to resign the throne and give it to him instead, which Hekataios is said to have agreed to. This would make the Sindike Kingdom the Asiatic portion of the Bosporan Kingdom, under which Gorgippos would rule.

References[]

  1. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. king of the Sindi, a people who live a little above the Bosphorus.
  2. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1.
  3. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. At last she reached the country of the Ixomatae, where her own family possessed the throne
  4. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. but confined her to a strong castle; however, she found a way of making her escape from there
  5. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. Hecataeus and Satyrus made a strict search for her, which she skilfully eluded
  6. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. The confederates first invaded the country of Hecataeus, and afterwards ravaged the dominions of Satyrus.
  7. ^ Polyaenus. Strategems 6.9.1. Harassed by a war, in which they found themselves inferior to the enemy, they sent an embassy to sue for peace,
  8. ^ Tokhtasev, S.R. Bosporus and the Sindike In the era of Leukon I.
  9. ^ Tokhtasev, S.R. Bosporus and the Sindike In the era of Leukon I.
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