Caria, under the Hecatomnids.Statue of a Hecatomnid ruler, perhaps Mausolus (British Museum)
The Hecatomnid dynasty or Hecatomnids were the rulers of Caria and surrounding areas c. 395 – c. 330 BCE. They were satraps (governors) under the Achaemenid Empire, although they ruled with considerable autonomy as a hereditary dynasty. The dynasty had previously ruled the city of Mylasa, which became the capital of Hecatomnus, the first indigenous satrap of Caria. The dynastic capital was moved to Halicarnassus by Mausolus and Artemisia, who built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, there. The dynasty survived the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great when Ada I, the final Hecatomnid ruler of Caria, adopted Alexander the Great as her son. The small family was remarkable for containing so many sets of married siblings.
The Hecatomnid dynasty or Hecatomnids were the rulers of Caria and surrounding areas c. 395 – c. 330 BCE. They were satraps (governors) under the Achaemenid...
Ἄδα) (fl. 377 – 326 BC) was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap...
fortifications, turning Halicarnassus into the primary port of the Hecatomnid navy. The Hecatomnids built themselves a palace on the promontory of Zephyrion, next...
challenged by scholars who believe either that the sibling marriages of the Hecatomnids were purely symbolic in nature and that while Ada was attested as his...
withdraw by sea. Alexander left the government of Caria to a member of the Hecatomnid dynasty, Ada, who adopted Alexander. From Halicarnassus, Alexander proceeded...
powerful local dynast, who founded the hereditary dynasty of the Hecatomnids. The Hecatomnids followed the earlier autochthonous dynasty of the Lygdamids (520-450...
the powerful position his predecessors of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) created when they succeeded the assassinated Persian Satrap Tissaphernes...
the Persian rule was restored towards the end of the same century. The Hecatomnids, the dynasty founded by Hecatomnus, were officially satraps of the Persian...
surviving inscription. In the 3rd century BCE, with the fall of the Hecatomnids, Labraunda passed into the control of Mylasa. The site was later occupied...
died, leaving Artemisia to rule alone. As the Persian satrap, and as the Hecatomnid dynast, Mausolus had planned for himself an elaborate tomb. When he died...
position he inherited from his predecessors of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids). Idrieus was the second son of Hecatomnus, and was married to his sister...
Sinuri or Labraunda, Lagina does not appear to have been favoured by the Hecatomnids. Lagina became one of the major rural cult centres of the polis of Stratonicea...
still under the umbrella of the Achaemenid Empire, the dynasty of the Hecatomnids. ČIΘRAFARNAH, Rüdiger Schmitt, Encyclopaedia Iranica J. P. Mallory and...
contained an important temple or sanctuary that was shown favour by the Hecatomnids when they ruled Caria. Its townspeople appear in ancient inscriptions...
Neolithic age.(p 161) In Labraunda in Caria, as well as in the coinage of the Hecatomnid rulers of Caria, the double axe accompanies the storm god Zeus Labraundos...
Achaemenid Empire and be ruled by a new dynasty of local tyrants, the Hecatomnids. Lygdamis I (c. 520–484 BCE) Artemisia (c. 484–460 BCE) Pisindelis (c...
highland sanctuaries which benefited from extensive patronage by the Hecatomnids who ruled Caria as satraps in the 4th century BCE. The sanctuary was...
Achaemenid Empire and be ruled by a new dynasty of local tyrants, the Hecatomnids. Fornara, Charles W.; Badian, E.; Sherk, Robert K. (1983). Archaic Times...
The town itself was plundered on that occasion. It became part of the Hecatomnid satrapy in the 4th century and was conquered by Alexander. We afterwards...
position as ‘sister’ to Antiochus mimicked the traditions of the previous Hecatomnid dynasty that ruled Caria during the 4th century BC, integrating the Seleucids...
historic rural sanctuary in southern Caria. It was situated east of the Hecatomnid satrapy and shows no signs of patronage or political activity in their...
Ancient Koranza was clearly engaged in regional diplomacy in the time of Hecatomnid rule. Ambassadors from many other Carian communities were also present...
Linders, Tullia & Hellström, Pontus (red.), Architecture and society in Hecatomnid Caria: proceedings of the Uppsala symposium 1987, Univ., Uppsala, 1989...
Labraunda. The site was previously used as an epigraphic depot by the Hecatomnid dynasty. The Olympichos dossier is contemporaneous with a similar range...
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