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Nicocreon (Gr**** Nικoκρέων;
lived 4th
century BC) was king of
Salamis in Cyprus, at the time of
Alexander the Great's (336–323 BC)
expedition against...
- (Arrian, 104)
Diogenes Laertius says that
Anaxarchus earned the
enmity of
Nicocreon, the
tyrant of Cyprus, with an
inappropriate joke
against tyrants in a...
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classical period in Salamis, is the tumulus,
which covered the
cenotaph of
Nicocreon, one of the last
kings of Salamis, who
perished in 311 BC. On its monumental...
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kingdom of
Cyprus then
appears to have been Salamis,
whose king was
Nicocreon.
Nicocreon strongly supported Ptolemy.
According to Arrian, he had the support...
- down a
potential suitor named Arceophon. Arsinoë was
daughter of King
Nicocreon of Salamis, also
known by the name Arsinoë (modern Famagusta), from the...
- FGrH 76.F4). He was then
succeeded by his son
Nicocreon. Pierides, D. (1869). "On the
Coins of
Nicocreon, One of the
Kings of Cyprus". The
Numismatic Chronicle...
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feast for the
animals and birds. 320 BCE – Ancient
sources state that
Nicocreon the
tyrant had
Anaxarchus pounded to
death in a
mortar with iron pestles;...
- Arsinoë,
daughter of King
Nicocreon (Νικοκρέων, Nikokréon) of
Salamis (a
descendant of Teucer), and
wooed her, but
Nicocreon refused to give his daughter...
- Arsinoë
Aphrodite Arceophon courted the
princess Arsinoë, but her
father Nicocreon would not
allow such
marriage to take place. He
tried to
bribe her wetnurse...
- they were
destined to co-operate with the
fleet of Seleucus, and with
Nicocreon, king of Salamis. By
their combined efforts, they soon
reduced all the...
