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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 ...
With Urartu incapable of stopping the Cimmerian advance, [124] some time around c. 675 BC, [191] under their king Dugdammî [192] [183] [127] (the Lygdamis of the Greek authors [183] [127] [177]), the western Cimmerians invaded and destroyed the empire of Phrygia, whose king Midas committed suicide, and sacked its capital of Gordion, [193 ...
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 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 was variously named as the son of the Dardanian noble Aesyetes by Cleomestra [3] or of Hicetaon. [4] He was the husband of Theano, [5] daughter of Cisseus of Thrace, who bore him at least one daughter, Crino, [6] and numerous sons, including Acamas, [7] [8] Agenor, [9] [10] Antheus, [11] Archelochus, [12] [13] Coön, [14] Demoleon, [15] Eurymachus, [16] Glaucus, [17] Helicaon, [18 ...
The name has also been related to the word kimme meaning "rim", i.e., "the people of the coast". [2] Finally, since Antiquity, the name has been related to that of the Cimmerians. [3] The name of the Danish region Himmerland (Old Danish Himbersysel) has been proposed to be a derivative of their name. [4]
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 ...
The Cimmerians were defeated in battle by King Gyges of Lydia in c. 663, but in 643, they captured the Lydian capital city of Sardis. In 637 or 626, the forces of Lydian king Alyettes routed the Cimmerians, and killed their king, Dugdamme. The Cimmerians then retreated to Cilicia. [3] Hegemony of the area was later transferred to the Lydians. [1]