Cersobleptes

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Cersobleptes

Cersobleptes (in Greek

Greek language

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Ke?soß??pt??) was son of Cotys

Cotys I

Cotys I or Kotys I was born during the reign of Seuthes I. He became king after he killed the previous Thracian king Hebryzelmis. On gaining the Odrysian kingdom the Athenians made him their ally....
, king of Thrace

Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
, on whose death in 358 BC he inherited the kingdom in conjunction with Berisades

Berisades

Berisades was a ruler in Thrace, who inherited, in conjunction with Amadocus and Cersobleptes, the dominions of the Thracian king Cotys I on the death of the latter in 358 BC....
and Amadocus II

Amadocus

Amadocus was a ruler in Thrace, who inherited in conjunction with Berisades and Cersobleptes the dominions of Cotys I, on the death of the latter in 358 BC....
, who were probably his brothers. He was very young at the time, and the whole management of his affairs was assumed by the Euboea

Euboea

For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
n adventurer, Charidemus

Charidemus

Charidemus , of Oreus in Euboea, was a Greece mercenary leader of the 4th century BC.About 367 BC he fought under the Athens general Iphicrates against Amphipolis....
, who was connected by marriage with the royal family. The area controlled by Cersobleptes was east of the river Hebrus.

Charidemus bore the prominent part in the ensuing contests and negotiations with Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
for the possession of the Thracian Chersonese

Thracian Chersonese

The Thracian Chersonese was the ancient name of the Gallipoli peninsula, in the part of historic Thrace that is now part of modern Turkey.The peninsula runs in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Hellespont and the bay of Melas ....
, Cersobleptes appearing throughout as a mere cipher.

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Cersobleptes (in Greek

Greek language

Cotys I

Thrace

Berisades

Berisades was a ruler in Thrace, who inherited, in conjunction with Amadocus and Cersobleptes, the dominions of the Thracian king Cotys I on the death of the latter in 358 BC....
and Amadocus II

Amadocus

Euboea

Charidemus

Athens

Thracian Chersonese

353 BC

Events...
; nor perhaps is the language of Isocrates

Isocrates

File:Isocrates pushkin.jpgIsocrates , an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works....
so decisive against this early date as it may appear at first sight. For some time after the cession of the Chersonese, Cersobleptes continued to court assiduously the favour of the Athenians, being perhaps restrained from aggression by the fear of their squadron in the Hellespont

Hellespont

Hellespont was the ancient name of the narrow strait, now known by the modern European term 'Dardanelles'. It was so called from Helle , the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here in the mythology of the Golden Fleece....
.

On the death of Berisades, before 352 BC, Cersobleptes conceived, or rather Charidemus conceived for him, the design of excluding the children of the deceased prince from their inheritance, and obtaining possession of all the dominions of Cotys; and it was with a view to the furtherance of this object that Charidemus obtained from the Athenian people, through his party among the orator

Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a speaker.An orator may also be called an oratarian - literally, "he who orates".Etymology...
s, the decree in his favour for which its mover Aristocrates

Aristocrates of Athens

Aristocrates was a person against whom Demosthenes wrote an oration, still extant, entitled Against Aristocrates . He wrote it shortly before 352 BC for Euthycles, who accused Aristocrates of proposing an illegal decree in relation to Charidemus, a Euboean adventurer who acted as chief minister for the Thracian prince Cersobleptes and de...
was impeached, but unsuccessfully, in the speech of Demosthenes

Demosthenes

Demosthenes was a prominent Greeks statesman and orator of History of Athens. His oratorys constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC....
yet extant. From a passing allusion in this oration, it appears that Cersobleptes had been negotiating with king Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon,...
ia for a combined attack on the Chersonese, which however came to nothing in consequence of the refusal of Amadocus to allow Philip a passage through his territory. But after the passing of the decree above-mentioned, Philip became the enemy of Cersobleptes, and in 352 BC made a successful expedition into Thrace, gained a firm ascendancy in the country, and brought away a son of Cersobleptes as a hostage.

Both Cersobleptes and Amadocus appear to have been subjected by Philip early in 347 BC, not long after Cetriporis

Cetriporis

Cetriporis was a was a king of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace from ca. 352 BC, in succession to his father Berisades, with whom he may already have been a co-ruler....
, the son and successor of Berisades, suffered the same fate. The two rulers, having appealed to the Macedonian ruler to arbitrate a dispute between them, were then been forced to acknowledge his suzereinty when the "judge" showed up with an army.

At the time of the peace between Athens and Philip in 346 BC, we find Cersobleptes again involved in hostilities with the Macedon

Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
ian king, who in fact was absent in Thrace when the second Athenian embassy arrived at his capital Pella

Pella

Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
, and did not return to give them audience until he had completely conquered Cersobleptes.

In the course of the next three years, Cersobleptes seems to have recovered strength sufficient to throw off the yoke, and, according to Diodorus

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus , was a Roman Greece historian who flourished in the 1st century BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agira in Sicily ....
, persisted in his attacks on the Greek

Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
cities on the Hellespont. Accordingly, in 343 BC, Philip again marched against him, defeated him in several battles, and reduced him to the condition of a tributary.

Kerseblept Nunatak

Kerseblept Nunatak

Kerseblept Nunatak is a rocky hill of elevation 90 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier, Greenwich Island. The hill is named after the Thracian King Kersobleptes, 359-341 BC....
on Greenwich Island

Greenwich Island (South Shetland Islands)

Greenwich Island is an island 15 miles long and from 0.5 to 6 miles wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands....
in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula....
, Antarctica

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
is named for Cersobleptes.