Nicocles (Paphos)

Nicocles ( altgr. Νικοκλής ) ( † 306 BC) was an ancient king of Paphos in Cyprus. He was initially allied with Ptolemy I, with whom he fought against BC Perdiccas since 321. He later allied himself with the Diadochi Antigonus I..

As Ptolemy I learned of this, he sent 306 BC troops under Argeios and Callicrates against Nicocles from that additional troops received from the strategists Menelaus. They forced their way into the palace to pull Nicocles for his betrayal to account, whereupon hanged Nicocles and his brothers.

His wife Axiothea stabbed her daughters, " that ye virginal body is not exposed to the enemies to shame ... " as it subtly describes Droysen. Then she called her sisters- in the palace, where they gathered on the roofs of the women's quarters, they slew their children and set fire to the palace. Axiothea had disembodied himself with a dagger and plunged into the flames.

Diodorus narrated this story incorrectly for Nicocreon King of Salamis. The description of the flame death but can be found at the fall of Babylon ( Sardanapalus ) and Carthage, so it is perhaps primarily a literary topos.

Inscriptions of Nicocles are written up on a Greek alphabets in the Cypriot script. Maybe he founded the port of " New Paphos ."