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Socrates Chrestus of Bithynia

Socrates Chrestus: rebel king in Bithynia (r.c.90 BCE)Nicomedes IV Philopator, a son of Nicomedes III Euergetes and Nysa of Cappadocia, inherited the Bithynian throne in an unquiet age, with Mithridates VI of Pontus as a dangerous neighbor. He supported Socrates Chrestus,…

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Darius, relief from the Central Relief of the Northern Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis The coup according to the Behistun Inscription Herodotus…

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