This category covers all the rulers which don't really fit into the current classification on the website.
Here you will find both minor kings from Archaic times, strongmen who carved out short-lived domains for themselves during their lifetime only to see it collapse afterwards, and a sprinkle of client kings.
Many of the authorities listed here may eventually be moved to other categories or given their own, as necessary.
Here you will find both minor kings from Archaic times, strongmen who carved out short-lived domains for themselves during their lifetime only to see it collapse afterwards, and a sprinkle of client kings.
Many of the authorities listed here may eventually be moved to other categories or given their own, as necessary.
Antigonus I Monophthalmus, the son of Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under Alexander the Great.
During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's death, declaring himself king in 306 BC and establishing the Antigonid dynasty.
During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's death, declaring himself king in 306 BC and establishing the Antigonid dynasty.
Lysimachos was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. "successor") of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus in 306 BC, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.
During Alexander's Persian campaigns, in 328 BC he was one of his immediate bodyguards. After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, he was appointed to the government of Thrace as strategos.
In 306/305 BC, Lysimachus follo...
During Alexander's Persian campaigns, in 328 BC he was one of his immediate bodyguards. After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, he was appointed to the government of Thrace as strategos.
In 306/305 BC, Lysimachus follo...
Evagoras was the king of Salamis (411–374 BC) in Cyprus, known especially from the work of Isocrates, who presents him as a model ruler.
He claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile. While in Cilicia, Evagoras ga...
He claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile. While in Cilicia, Evagoras ga...
Rhoikos was a king of Amathus on Cyprus c. 360-350 BC.
Antipater was a Macedonian general and statesman under kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, and father of King Kassander.
Nothing is known of his early career until 342 BC, when he was appointed by Philip to govern Macedon as his regent while the former left for three years of hard and successful campaigning against Thracian and Scythian tribes, which extended Macedonian ...
Nothing is known of his early career until 342 BC, when he was appointed by Philip to govern Macedon as his regent while the former left for three years of hard and successful campaigning against Thracian and Scythian tribes, which extended Macedonian ...
The Lokri Opuntii were a subdivision of the Locrians, a tribe which inhabited the coastal area around Opous, on the eastern coast of Central Greece. Their western counterparts were called the Lokri Epicnemidii.
The Locrians are mentioned by Homer, who describes them as following Ajax, the son of Oïleus, to the Trojan War in forty ships, and as inhabiting the towns of Kynos, Opus, Callia...
The Locrians are mentioned by Homer, who describes them as following Ajax, the son of Oïleus, to the Trojan War in forty ships, and as inhabiting the towns of Kynos, Opus, Callia...
The Magnetes were an ancient Greek tribe. In book 2 of the Iliad Homer includes them in the Greek Army that is besieging Troy, and identifies their homeland in Thessaly, in part of what is still known as Magnesia. They later also contributed to the Greek colonisation by founding two prosperous cities in Western Anatolia, Magnesia on the Maeander and Magnesia ad Sipylum.
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Toward the end of the Peloponnesian war Lycophron established a tyranny at Pherae. On his death his son Jason became dictator and by around 374 B.C. extended his rule throughout Thessaly.
After Jason's assassination and that of his two successors Alexander ruled Pherae with great harshness until he was killed by his wife, Thebe, in 359 B.C., and Thessaly was conquered by the Thebans.
After Jason's assassination and that of his two successors Alexander ruled Pherae with great harshness until he was killed by his wife, Thebe, in 359 B.C., and Thessaly was conquered by the Thebans.
Abbaetae Mysi were an Mysian people that occupied a district in western Phrygia, called Abbaitis, of which Ancyra and Synaiis were the chief cities. The coins were probably struck at Ancyra and the style belongs to the middle of the 2nd century B.C.