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The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax , who seized control of the city c ...
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, romanized: Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Latin: Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.
The first recorded mentions of the Cimmerians date from spring or early summer [104] of 714 BC [105] and are from the intelligence reports of the then superpower of West Asia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, sent by the crown prince Sennacherib to his father the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II, recording that the Urartian king Rusa I (r. c.
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The origin of the name Cimbri is unknown. One etymology [1] is Proto-Indo-European: *tḱim-ro-, lit. 'inhabitant', from *tḱoi-m-"home" (English home), itself a derivation from *tḱei-"live" (Ancient Greek: κτίζω, Latin: sinō); then, the Germanic *himbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ "farmer" (Croatian, Serbian sebar, Belorussian сябёр syabyor).
The Cimmerians changed the name of their tribe to Sicambri in honor of Cambra. [2] Cambra's son by Antenor, Priamus the Younger , succeeded his father when he was twenty-six. According to John Tritemicus , Cambra was so beautiful and wise that the Frankish monarchy obeyed her as if she was an Oracle, and she converted the people to civility ...
Antenor (king), a king of the Cimmerian Bosporus; Antenor (Trojan), a figure in Greek mythology; Antenor (mythology), a list of other people with the name in Greek mythology; Antenor (writer), ancient Greek writer; Antenor of Provence (fl. c. 700), patrician of Provence; Anténor Firmin, (1850–1911), Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and ...
In Greek mythology, Antenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀντήνωρ Antḗnōr) may refer to two distinct characters: . Antenor, husband of Theano and an Elder of Troy. [1]Antenor, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers. [2]