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Tryphon
(1,210 words)

(Τρύφων/Trýphōn).

[German version]

[1] The usurper Diodotus of Casiane, 2nd cent. BC

Name assumed by the usurper Diodotus from Casiane near Apamea [3] (Str. 16,2,10). As strategos of Demetrius [7] I, D./T. went over to the pretender to the throne Alexander [II 13] Balas,…

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Mehl, Andreas (Halle/Saale), Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum), Baumbach, Manuel (Zürich), Touwaide, Alain (Madrid), Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna) and Matthaios, Stephanos (Cologne), “Tryphon”, 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 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1221880>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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