Idrieus

Idrieus

Idrieus (in Greek Ἰδριεύς; died in 344 BC) was a king or dynast of Caria. He was the second son of Hecatomnus, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his sister Artemisia in 351 BC. Shortly after his accession he was required by the Persian king, Artaxerxes III Ochus, to fit out an armament for the reduction of Cyprus, a request with which he readily complied; and having equipped a fleet of 40 triremes, and assembled an army of 8000 mercenary troops, despatched them against Cyprus, under the command of Evagoras and the Athenian general Phocion. This is the only event of his reign which is recorded to us; but we may infer, from an expression of Isocrates, in 346 BCrf|1|isoc, that the friendly relations between him and the Persian king did not long continue: they appear to have come even to an open rupture. But the hostility of Persia did not interfere with prosperity, for he is spoken of by Isocrates in the same passage as one of the most wealthy and powerful of the princes of Asia; and Demosthenes tells usrf|2|dem that he had added to his hereditary dominions the important islands of Chios, Cos, and Rhodes. He died of disease in 344 BC, after a reign of seven years, leaving the sovereign power, by his will, to his sister Ada, to whom he had been married.rf|3|diod_16.42_45_69_strab_14_arr_1.23

References

*Smith, William (editor); "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1671.html "Idrieus"] , Boston, (1867)

Notes

ent|1|isoc Isocrates, "Speeches and Letters", "To Philip", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Isoc.+5+102 102] ent|2|dem Demosthenes, "Speeches", "On the Peace", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Dem.+5+25 25] ent|3|diod_16.42_45_69_strab_14_arr_1.23 Diodorus Siculus, "Bibliotheca", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+16.42.1 xvi. 42] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+16.45.1 45] , [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+16.69.1 69] ; Strabo, "Geography", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Strab.+14.2.1 xiv. 2] ; Arrian, "Anabasis Alexandri", [http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/book1b.asp i. 23]

External links

* [http://www.livius.org Livius] , [http://www.livius.org/he-hg/hecatomnids/idrieus.html Idrieus] by Jona Lendering

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