Nicocreon

Nicocreon ( ancient Greek Νικοκρέων; † 311/310 BC) was a king of Salamis in Cyprus. He was the son and 332/31 BC, successor to the Pnytagoras. He claimed descent from Aeacus. He was either the brother of trierarchs Nitaphon or equal to this.

Nicocreon fought with Alexander the Great before Tyros. 321 BC he allied himself with Ptolemy I. The alliance was renewed 315 BC. Two years later, Ptolemy Nicocreon made ​​under the magnification of its power strategos of Cyprus, in order to have a powerful ally in the fight against Antigonus I.. However Nicocreon became the subordinates of Ptolemy. Bronze shields as votive offerings of Nicocreon are known from Argos, Delphi and Delos. On Delos was Nicocreon Proxenos.

According to Valerius Maximus the philosopher Anaxarchos Nicocreon had insulted on the board of Alexander, whereupon he had him tortured. Not to be put through the torture to lie, Anaxarchos to bite off his tongue and spat it at a hearing the king 's face when they had him executed it. Ammianus Marcellinus tells the story of the philosopher Zeno, which is probably based on a confusion. Macrobius says that Nicocreon inquired at Serapis, which he was for a god. Should the question be genuine, but it is not the traditional answer.

Nicocreon died 311/10 BC, with his family by committing suicide together and was buried by the rubble of the burned palace. In the style of around 350-300 BC Greek sculptor Lysippos make modeled Toteneffigien Vassos Karageorghis found in the cenotaph of Nicocreon. Make obvious the king and his family dar. order to give them a decent burial, leaving the portrait Salaminians similar clay sculptures customize at which only the visible parts were fully formed. You made a symbolic cremation and vaulted to a grave mound, but not recovered the corpses but the remains of the Toteneffigien. The traditional story of his end in Diodorus refers to Nicocles of Paphos.