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Perozes
(326 words)
(Greek Περόζης;
Perózēs). [German version] [1] P.I. Persian king of kings, 459-484 AD (Arabic
Fīrūz). Persian Great King (AD 459-484), son of Yazdgird II. His reign is characterised by disputes with tribes of Hunni, who were already supporting a campaign for the throne against Hormisdas [5] III. In about AD 465 P. got into conflict with king Kunchas of the Kidarites, to whom he sent a woman to be his wife, claiming that she was his sister (Priscus fr. 41 Blockley). More dangerous to him were the Hephthalitae,…
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Archelaus
(1,291 words)
(Ἀρχέλαος;
Archélaos). [German version] [1] Macedonian king (ca. 413-399 BC) Son of Perdiccas, king of Macedonia about 413-399 BC, who according to Plato's spiteful representation (Gorg. 471) was the son of a slave woman and had ascended to the throne by…
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Nicomedes
(1,542 words)
(Νικομήδης;
Nikomḗdēs). [German version] [1] Spartan commander, 458 or 457 BC Member of the Spartan royal family of the Agiadae, son of Cleombrotus [2], brother of Pausanias, the victor of Plataeae. In 458 or 457 BC, N. led a Spartan army as the guardian of his underage nephew Pleistoanax to support the inhabitants of the Doris region against the Phocians and on the return march defeated the Athenians near Tanagra (Thuc. 1,107,2-108,1; Diod. Sic. 11,79,4-80,6; Plut. Cimon 17,4-9; Plut. Pericles 10,1-4). Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm (Bochum) [German version] [2] N. I of Bithynia King from 280 BC Son of the first Bithynian king Zipoetes, whom he followed on the throne in 280 BC. N. allied against Antiochus [2] I with Heraclea [7] on the Pontus, leaving Cierus, Tios and the country of the Thyni to Heraclea against a high payment. His brother Zipoetes, the governor of Thynis, rose in vain against this cession. After N. also allied with Antigonus [2] Gonatas, he held out against a Seleucid fleet supported by 13 ships fro…
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Shirin (Sira)
(133 words)
Schottky, Martin (Pretzfeld) [German version] [1] Wife of Chosroes [6] II, c. 600 AD (Šīrīn, Σειρέμ /
Seirém, Σιρήν/
Sirḗn). A Christian from Ḫūzistan, one of the wives of Chosroes [6] II, who was elevated by him to queen in AD 592 (Theophylaktos Simokattes, Historiae 5,13,7). She was still alive in 627 (Theophanes, Chronographia
anno mundi 6118). Only late oriental authors tell of her suicide over the corpse of her husband [1. 401-405]. The S. topic underwent many literary revisions…
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