Author(s):
von Bredow, Iris (Bietigheim-Bissingen)
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Mehl, Andreas (Halle/Saale)
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Ameling, Walter (Jena)
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Hünemörder, Christian (Hamburg)
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Hübner, Wolfgang (Münster)
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Et al.
(Σέλευκος/
Séleukos, Lat.
Seleucus). [German version] [1] Co-regent in the Regnum Bosporanum, c.400 BC Co-regent with Satyrus [2] I in the Regnum Bosporanum, 433/2-393/2 BC (according to Diod. Sic. 12,36,1). As Satyrus is elsewhere (Diod. Sic, 14,93,1) described as a sole ruler, and other sources do not mention his name, his existence is not certain. von Bredow, Iris (Bietigheim-Bissingen) Bibliography V. F. Gajdukevič, Das Bosporanische Reich, 1971, 231 E. H. Minns, Scythians and Greeks, 1913, 571 R. Werner, Die Dynastie der Spartokiden, in: Historia 4, 1955, 419-421. [German version] [2] S. I Nicator (Νικάτωρ/Nikátōr, 'victor'). Founder of the empire and dynasty of the Seleucids. S. was born c. 355 BC the son of a Macedonian named Antiochus; he took part in the Asian campaign of his king Alexander [4] ‘the Great’, becoming one of the latter's 'companions', and enjoyed particular success in India in 326 (Arr. Anab. 5,13,4). In 324, in the marriages carried out by Alexander between Macedonians and Iranian women, he received as his wife Apama [1], daughter of the Bactrian Spitamenes (Arr. Anab. 7,4,6). All Seleucids descended from…