Lycomedes of Comana

Lycomedes of Comana was a Bithynian of Cappadocian descent who ruled Comana in the late 1st century BC. [cite book | last = Erciyas | first = Deniz Burcu | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Wealth, Aristocracy and Royal Propaganda Under the Hellenistic Kingdom of the Mithradatids | publisher = Brill Publishers | date = 2005 | location = Leiden | pages = 49 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ghdXySx1JvwC | doi = | id = | isbn = 90-04-14609-1] In 47 BC he was named by Julius Caesar the priest of the goddess Bellona in the temple-state of Comana, [Julius Caesar, "De Bello Alexandrino" 66] cite book | last = Syme | first = Ronald | authorlink = Ronald Syme | coauthors = Anthony Richard Birley | title = Anatolica: Studies in Strabo | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1995 | location = Oxford | pages = 166-169 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=I7kSRCcu4xoC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-19-814943-3] and sovereign, therefore, of the surround­ing country.Citation | last = Elder | first = Edward | author-link = | contribution = Lycomedes (4) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 846 | publisher = | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1954.html ] His predecessor was the son of the general Archelaus. [cite book | last = Dueck | first = Daniela | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2005 | location = Cambridge | pages = 197 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=UKpWm2cXNmwC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-521-85306-0] Strabo reports that with Polemon, Lycomedes besieged a fortress held by Arsaces, a rebel chief who was guarding the sons of Pharnaces II of Pontus, until Arsaces surrendered. [Strabo, "Geographia" xii p. 560]

Lycomedes was an adherent of Mark Antony, who at some point enlarged the territory of Lycomedes' kingdom. [cite book
last = Huzar
first = Eleanor Goltz
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title = Mark Antony: A Biography
publisher = Routledge
date = 1986
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isbn = ] Because of his partisanship he was deposed by Augustus after the Battle of Actium. [Strabo, "Geographia" xii. p. 558] [Cassius Dio, li. 2] [Appian, "Mithr." 114] He was succeeded as priest and ruler, briefly, by Medeius and the brigand-king Cleon of Gordiucome, and more permanently by Dyteutus.cite book | last = Cramer | first = John Antony | authorlink = John Antony Cramer | coauthors = | title = A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1832 | location = Oxford | pages = 307-308 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=JCAOAAAAYAAJ | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

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