Brill’s New Pauly

Get access

Battus
(646 words)

(Βάττος; Báttos).

[German version]

[1] B.I. King of Cyrene, around 630 BC

Son of Polymnestus, from the lineage of the Minyan Euphemus of Thera (Hdt. 4,150). Leader of the colonists and King of Cyrene (Hdt. 4,153,3; SEG 9,3: ἡγεμόνα ἀρχαγέταν καὶ βασιλέα). Around 630 BC, he first settled on the island of Platea, then on the Libyan coast, and finally in the town of  Cyrene after reaching an…

Cite this page
Patzek, Barbara (Wiesbaden) and Bloch, René (Berne), “Battus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 26 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e213950>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



▲   Back to top   ▲