Prytanis
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
(Πρύτανις).
1. A king of Sparta, of the Proclid line, who, according to Pausanias, was the son of Eurypon, and fourth king of that race. The same author ascribes to his reign the commencement of the wars between Sparta and Argos. Diodorus allots a period of forty-nine years to his reign, but omits all notice of the two kings between him and Procles. It is needless to remark, that the chronology, and even the genealogy, of the kings of Sparta before Lycurgus, is probably apocryphal. (Paus. 3.7.2; Diod. apud Euseb. Arm. p. 150.)
2. One of the sons of PARISADES I., king of Bosporus. He appears to have submitted without opposition to the authority of his elder brother Satyrus, who ascended the throne on the death of Parisades, B. C. 311, and was left by him in charge of his capital city of Panticapaeum, during the campaign in which he engaged against their remaining brother Eumelus. Satyrus himself having fallen on this expedition, Prytanis assumed the sovereign power, but was defeated by Eumelus, and compelled to conclude a treaty, by which he resigned the crown to his brother. Notwithstanding this, he made a second attempt to recover it, but was again defeated, and put to death by order of Eumelus. His wife and children shared the same fate. (Diod. 20.22_24.) [E.H.B]
PRY´TANIS (Πρύτανις), a small river in the east of Pontus, which has its sources in the Moschici Montes, and flows by the town of Abgabes. (Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 7; Anonym. Peripl. P. E. p. 15, where it is called Prytanes.) It is perhaps the same river as that called by Scylax (p. 32) Pordanis.
[L.S]- Hdt. 8.131
- Paus. 5.21.3
- Paus. 2.36.4, Paus. 3.7.2, Paus. 4.4.4