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297: 20: 244: 86:, who was still on the island with an army, and surrounded the palace of Paphos with an armed force, and commanded Nicocles to put an end to his own life, an order with which, after a vain attempt at explanation, he was obliged to comply. Nikokles and his brothers hanged themselves. After her husband had killed himself, 73:
In 310 BC, after Ptolemy had established his power over the whole island of Cyprus, Nicocles entered into secret negotiations with Antigonus. Hereupon, the Egyptian monarch, alarmed lest the spirit of disaffection should spread to other cities, dispatched two of his friends,
90:, his wife, slew her virgin daughters to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Greeks. Then, together with her sisters-in-law, she set fire to the palace and perished in the flames so that not even their bodies could fall in the hands of their enemies. 79: 142: 87: 75: 281: 149: 380: 334: 424: 409: 274: 429: 58:. As king, Nicocles changed the capital of Paphos, from the old one to the new one. In 321 BC, he allied himself with 419: 165: 414: 373: 267: 189: 399: 434: 327: 439: 366: 67: 320: 83: 404: 112: 354: 308: 255: 8: 214: 108: 59: 350: 304: 251: 39: 393: 124: 99: 63: 24: 19: 31:
seated on omphalos. The Greek inscription reads ΝΙΚΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΠΑΦΙΟΝ.
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Aphrodite
Apollo
Greek
king
Paphos
Cyprus
Ptolemy
Perdiccas
Antigonus
Argaeus
Kallikrates
Menelaus
Axiothea of Paphos
Isocrates
Diodorus Siculurs
Bibliotheca Historica
Polyaenus
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
"Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, section 1"
"LacusCurtius • Diodorus Siculus — Book XX Chapters 19‑44"
"Polyaenus: Stratagems - Book 8 (b)"
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