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σωτήρ
Soter derives from the Ancient Greek epithet (''Sōtḗr''), meaning a wiktionary:savior, saviour, a deliverer. The feminine form is Soteira (Σώτειρα, ''Sṓteira'') or sometimes Soteria (Σωτηρία, ''Sōtería''). Soter was used as: * A title of gods: Poseidon Soter, Zeus Soter, Dionysus Soter, Apollo Soter, Hades Soter, Helios Soter, Athena Soteira, Asclepius Soter, and Hecate Soteira. * The name of a distinct mythical figure, Soter (daimon) * An epithet of several Hellenistic rulers: **Antigonus Monophthalmus (382–301 BCE), awarded the title for liberating Athens from Cassander **Ptolemy I Soter, ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt (reigned 323 –283 BCE) **Attalus I, Attalus I Soter, the ruler of the Kingdom of Pergamon (reigned 241–197 BCE) **Antiochus I Soter, ruler of the Seleucid Empire (reigned 281 –261 BCE) **Demetrius I Soter, ruler of the Seleucid Empire (reigned 161–150 BCE) **Menander I, Menander I Soter, ruler of the Indo-Greek kingdom (reigned c. 165/155 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savior
Savior or saviour may refer to: *A person who helps people achieve salvation, or saves them from something Religion * Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years * Maitreya * Messiah, a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions ** Messiah in Judaism **Jesus as the Redeemer (Christianity), savior or redeemer in Christianity * Zoroastrian tradition envisions three future saviors, including Saoshyant, [sou-shyuhnt] a figure of Zoroastrian eschatology who brings about the final renovation of the world, the Frashokereti * Soter, derives from the Greek epithet (''sōtēr''), meaning a saviour, a deliverer * The Saviour (paramilitary organization) (Спас), a militant nationalist organization in Russia Film and television * The Savior (1971 film), ''The Savior'' (1971 film), French film about a girl and a Nazi officer * The Savior (2014 film), ''The Savior'' (2014 film), Arabic-language film about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antiochus I Soter
Antiochus I Soter (, ''Antíochos Sōtér''; "Antiochus Soter, the Savior"; 2 June 261 BC) was a Ancient Greece, Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned during a period of instability which he mostly overcame until his death on 2 June 261 BC. He is the last known ruler to be attributed the ancient Mesopotamian title King of the Universe. Biography Antiochus's father was Seleucus I Nicator and his mother was Apama, daughter of Spitamenes, being one of the princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. The Seleucids fictitiously claimed that Apama was the daughter of Darius III, in order to legitimise themselves as the inheritors of both the Achaemenids and Alexander, and therefore the rightful lords of western and central Asia. In 294 BC, prior to the death of his father Seleucus I Nicator, Seleucus I, Antiochus married his stepmother, Stratonice of Syria, Stratonice, daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleutherios (other)
Eleutherios or Lefteris (, "the liberator") is an epithet and formal attribution in the Greek pantheon, including: * Dionysus * Eros * Zeus From Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa. # He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games, # and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus. # as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae. # His sons were Iasius. # and Pierus. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis". # Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus. # Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia. # Eleuther, one of the Curete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strato I
Strato I Dikaios (Greek: ''Strátо̄n Díkaios,'' “Strato the Just”) also known as Stratha in Sanskrit, was a Yavana King (reigned 125/120-110 BCE), the son and successor of Menander, Strato’s mother, Agathoclea ruled as Queen Mother and regnant for Strato until 120 BCE, when he was of age to succeed his father. He was dynastically succeeded by his son, Menander II. Date and genealogy Until recently, consensus was that he ruled between c. 130–110 BCE in Northern India and that his father was the great king Menander I. Menander ruled the entire Indo-Greek empire, but in this scenario, the western parts including Paropamisade and Arachosia gained independence after the death of Menander I, pushing Strato and Agathokleia eastwards to Gandhara and Punjab. This view was introduced by Tarn and defended as recently as 1998 by Bopearachchi. The modern view, embraced by R. C. Senior and probably more solid since it is founded on numismatical analyses, suggests that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strato II
Strato II Soter (, ''Strátōn B΄ ho Sotḗr''; epithet means "the Saviour") also known as Stratha, was an Indo-Greek king. He ruled to 10 CE according to Bopearachchi. R. C. Senior suggests that his reign ended perhaps a decade earlier. He may have been supplanted by the Indo-Scythian Northern Satraps, particularly Rajuvula and Bhadayasa, whose coins were often copied on those of the last Indo-Greek kings.The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans, John M. Rosenfield, University of California Press, 1967, p.13/ref> Numerous coins of Rajuvula have been found in company with the coins of the Strato group in the Punjab, India, Eastern Punjab (to the east of the Jhelum) and also in the Mathura area: for example, 96 coins of Strato II were found in Mathura in conjunction with coins of Rajuvula, who also imitated the designs of Strato II in the majority of his issues. Rule Strato II ruled in the eastern Punjab region, Punjab, probably retaining the capital of Sagala (modern Sialkot, Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodotus I
Diodotus I Soter (Greek language, Greek: , ''Diódotos Sōtḗr''; c. 300 BC – c. 235 BC) was the first Hellenistic period, Hellenistic king of Bactria. Diodotus was initially satrap of Bactria, but became independent of the Seleucid Empire, Seleucid empire around 255 BC, establishing the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. In about 250 BC, Diodotus repelled a Parni, Parthian invasion of Bactria by Arsaces I of Parthia, Arsaces. He minted an extensive coinage and administered a powerful and prosperous new kingdom. He died around 235 BC and was succeeded by his son Diodotus II. His rule was recounted by Apollodorus of Artemita in the ''Parthian History'', but this text is lost, and surviving literary sources only mention him in passing. Thus, most details of Diodotus' life have to be reconstructed from numismatics and brief references by Justin (historian), Justin and other historians. Background and satrapy The Bactria (satrapy), region of Bactria, which encompassed the Oxus river, Oxus r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ptolemy IX
Ptolemy IX Soter II Ptolemy IX also took the same title 'Soter' as Ptolemy I. In older references and in more recent references by the German historian Huss, Ptolemy IX may be numbered VIII. (, ''Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr'' 'Ptolemy the Saviour'), commonly nicknamed Lathyros (Λάθυρος, ''Láthuros'' 'chickpea'),Ptolemy Soter II and Ptolemy Alexander I at LacusCurtius — (Chapter XI of E. R Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) was twice of . He was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seleucus III Ceraunus
Seleucus III Ceraunus (Ancient Greek: Σέλευκος Κεραυνός, ''Séleukos Keraunós''), later also known as Soter (Ancient Greek: Σωτήρ, ''Sōtḗr''; born 244 or 243 BCE; died 223 BCE in Phrygia), was the eldest son of Seleucus II Callinicus and Laodice II, and for a few years—between 226/5 and 223 BCE— king of the Seleucid Empire. His epithets mean "Thunderbolt" and "Savior," while his birth name was Alexander. In 225 BCE, following the death of his father Seleucus II—who succumbed to injuries from a fall from his horse—Seleucus III succeeded him as king of the Seleucid Empire. In 223 BCE, he was assassinated in Asia Minor by courtiers during a campaign against Attalus I of Pergamon. His brother Antiochus subsequently ascended the throne. Biography Seleucus III was born in either 243 or 244 BCE under the name Alexander, as the son of Seleucus II and Laodice. After his father's death in 226/5 BCE, he assumed the Seleucid throne and adopted the regna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbel II Soter
Rabbel II Soter ( Nabataean Aramaic: ''Rabʾēl dī ʾaḥyēy wa-šēzīb ʿammeh'', "Rabbel, who gave life and deliverance to his people") was the last ruler of the Nabataean Kingdom, ruling from 70 to 106. His name as transcribed in Arabic is '. After the death of his father, Malichus II, Rabbel still a child, ascended to the throne. His mother, Shaqilath II, assumed the regency of the Nabataean Kingdom, during the minority of her son Rabel II in 70-76 AD. His sister Gamilath became queen of the Nabataeans. Rabbel gave himself the Greek title " Soter",Taylor (2001), pp.73-74 meaning "Savior". He reigned with his first wife Queen Gamilath and his second wife Queen Hagaru. Gamilat was a queen in 76–102 AD and Hagru was a queen in 102–106. After his death in 106, the Roman emperor Trajan Trajan ( ; born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Anto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter
Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter (, "Polyxenus the Illustrious Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly in western Punjab or Gandhara. Date Osmund Bopearachchi places Polyxenus c. 100 BCEBopearachchi (1998) and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE. Coinage Polyxenus, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of Strato I. Both kings used the epithets Soter Epiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alcidemus (fighting Pallas Athene), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenus also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver. His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her aegis The aegis ( ; ''aigís''), as stated in the ''Iliad'', is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a deity named Aex, a .... Polyxenus' coins are few and featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionysios Soter
Dionysius Soter (; epithet means "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king in the area of eastern Punjab. Reign According to Osmund Bopearachchi, he reigned c. 65–55 BCE and inherited the eastern parts of the kingdom of the important late ruler Apollodotus II. The kings share the same epithet and use the common reverse of fighting Pallas Athene, and it seems plausible that they were closely related, but relationships between the last Indo-Greek kings remain uncertain since the only sources of information are their remaining coins. R. C. Senior dates him approximately ten years later. Earlier scholars like Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani have dated Dionysius much earlier, between the years 115 and 100 BCE, making him the ruler of the Swat and Dir Valleys and the weak successor of Polyxenus. Dionysios was probably pressured by the invasions of the Indo-Scythians, and also had to deal with Hippostratus, a more important king who had inherited the western part of the kingdom of Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
