Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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Summary
For Andreas Mehl, with deep gratitude
Abstract: At the end of the eighth century, Cyprus came under Assyrian control. For the following four centuries, the Cypriot monarchs were confronted with the power of the Near Eastern empires. This essay focuses on the relations between the Cypriot kings and the Near Eastern Great Kings from the eighth to the fourth century BC. To understand these relations, two theoretical concepts are applied: the centre-periphery model and the concept of suzerainty. From the central perspective of the Assyrian and Persian empires, Cyprus was situated on the western periphery. Therefore, the local governing traditions were respected by the Assyrian and Persian masters, as long as the petty kings fulfilled their duties by paying tributes and providing military support when requested to do so. The personal relationship between the Cypriot kings and their masters can best be described as one of suzerainty, where the rulers submitted to a superior ruler, but still retained some autonomy. This relationship was far from being stable, which could lead to manifold misunderstandings between centre and periphery. In this essay, the ways in which suzerainty worked are discussed using several examples of the relations between Cypriot kings and their masters.
Key words: Assyria, Persia, Cyprus, Cypriot kings.
At the end of the fourth century BC, all the Cypriot kingdoms vanished during the wars of Alexander's successors Ptolemy and Antigonus, who struggled for control of the island. Pumayyaton, king of Kition, was executed, and Praxippus of Lapithus and Stasioecus of Marion were arrested by Ptolemy. On Ptolemy's orders, the city of Marion on the northern coast of the island was completely wiped out and the population resettled at Paphos. The royal family of Paphos came to a dramatic end: Ptolemy ordered Nicocles of Paphos to commit suicide because he had secretly negotiated with Antigonus; when Nicocles was dead, his wife Axiothea killed herself and their daughters. The king's brothers and their wives followed them to their deaths, burning down the palace. By 306 BC, all Cypriot kingdoms had ceased to exist.
Before the successors’ wars, Cyprus had been divided into small kingdoms for several centuries, their number varying between seven and twelve.
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- Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity , pp. 25 - 50Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2017