Scydrothemis

Also known as: King Scydrothemis · Family: Sinopean · Role: king · First appears: Histories IV.82-85

Life events

Ptolemy ordered representatives to seek Serapis's image from Scydrothemis at Sinope.(Histories IV.82-85 · 📍 Sinope)
- With: Ptolemy
- “He at once gave orders that representatives should be sent with presents to King Scydrothemis, who was then reigning at Sinope”
Scydrothemis received a threatening vision and suffered diseases and disasters for resisting the god's design.(Histories IV.82-85 · 📍 Sinope)
- “Then a threatening vision appeared to Scydrothemis, bidding him no longer thwart the god's design. When he still hesitated, he was beset by every kind of disease and disaster”

with Ptolemy (Ptolemy sent representatives with a petition and presents to Scydrothemis.) “He at once gave orders that representatives should be sent with presents to King Scydrothemis, who was then reigning at Sinope, and on their departure he instructed them to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.