CERSOBLEPTES


Meaning of CERSOBLEPTES in English

died 342 BC

King of Thrace (360–342).

He inherited a war with Athens and was opposed internally by two pretenders to the throne. To Athens he ceded the Thracian Chersonese (357); to the pretenders he relinquished western Thrace. He forged an alliance with Athens to oppose Macedonia , but was later excluded from the peace of 346 by Philip II .

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