Etearchus
Etearchus
(Ἐτέαρχος).
1. An ancient king of the city of Axus in Crete, who, according to the Cyrenaean accounts, was the grandfather of Battus I., king of Cyrene. The story of the way in which he was induced to plan the death of his daughter Phronime, at the instigation of her stepmother, and of the manner in which she was preserved and taken to Cyrene, is told by Herodotus (4.154, 155).
Etearchus
2. A king of the Ammonians, mentioned by Herodotus (2.32) as the authority for some accounts which he heard from certain Cyrenaeans of an expedition into the interior of Africa undertaken by five youths of the Nasamones. [C.P.M]
Etearchus
Etearchus, king of Oaxus in Crete
- Hdt. 4.154
- visit of Cyrenaeans to him: Hdt. 2.32