Cotys III (Odrysian) explained

Cotys III (Ancient Greek: Κότυς, Kotys) was a king of the Odrysians in Thrace in the early 3rd-century BC. His one secure attestation is an inscription from Delphi dated to sometime between 276 and 267 BC (usually given as 270/269 BC), in which he is named as the son of Raizdos, his probable predecessor.^[1] Scholarship has long associated a coin type struck for a king Cotys on one side and a king Rhescuporis on the other and also a king Cotys, father of a Rhescuporis, named in a decree from Apollonia (Sozopol) with Cotys III.^[2] However, these identifications have been doubted, and some scholars have redated both the coin type and the inscription to almost three centuries later.^[3] It is therefore uncertain whether Cotys III was succeeded by a son named Rhescuporis.^[4]

See also

• List of Thracian tribes

Bibliography

• D. Dana, Inscriptions, in: J. Valeva et al. (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Thrace, Wiley, 2015: 243-264.
• P. Delev, From Koroupedion to the Beginning of the Third Mithridatic War (281-73 BCE), in: J. Valeva et al. (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Thrace, Wiley, 2015: 59-74.
• J. Jurukova, Monetite na trakijskite plemena i vladeteli, vol. 1., Sofia, 1992.
• M. Manov, "Dekret na Apolonija s novo datirane," Numizmatika, Sfragistika i Epigrafika 11 (2015) 167-173.
• R. Werner, in: W.-D. von Barloewen (ed.), Abriss der Geschichte antiker Randkulturen, Munich, 1961: 83-150, 239-242.

Notes and References

1. Dana 2015: 251.
2. Werner 1961: 115, 239; Jurukova 1992: 153-157; compare Delev 2015: 62.
3. For example, Manov 2015.
4. https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/imladjov/chronologies Mladjov, Rulers of Thrace, University of Michigan