| Conflict: | Battle of Lake Maeotis |
| Date: | 309 BC |
| Place: | Sea of Azov, Crimea |
| Result: | Siracen Victory
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| Combatant1: | Siraces |
| Combatant2: | Bosporan Kingdom |
| Commander1: | Eumelos Aripharnes(?) |
| Commander2: | Prytanis |
| Strength1: | Unknown |
| Strength2: | Unknown |
| Casualties1: | Low |
| Casualties2: | High |
The Battle of Lake Maeotis was a military engagement of the Spartocid civil war that took place in winter of 309 BC near the Maeotic Lake. It was fought between the forces of Prytanis I, who succeeded his late brother Satyros II, and the pretender Eumelos who had recently killed Satyros II at Siracena.[1] [2]
Satyros II had been killed at Siracena while besieging the town with Aripharnes and Eumelos inside.[3] After his death, the mercenary commander Meniscus, took Satyros' body to Gargaza and gave it to Prytanis, the younger brother of Satyros and Eumelos. He buried his brother after taking the throne. Then Prytanis left a garrison in Gargaza and returned to Panticapaeum to secure his position[4] while Eumelos and Aripharnes quickly took Gargaza.[5] Shortly after, Prytanis took the field against his brother but was quickly cornered and defeated.[6]