Spartocid dynasty

The Spartocids (Greek: Σπαρτοκίδαι) or Spartocidae was the name of a Hellenized Thracian[1][2] dynasty that ruled the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bosporus between the years 438–108 BC.

Paerisades also, at some point during his reign, took the strategic city of Tanais near the Don River and added several other nomadic tribes to his dominions.

The war was carried into 2 large engagements, starting with the Battle of the River Thatis and later the Siege of Siracena, in which Satyros II lost his life.

[14] Under Eumelos's reign, the Bosporan Kingdom enjoyed much military success, purging the Black Sea of nearly all pirates,[15] and was large enough to rival the state of Lysimachus, one of Alexander's powerful generals.

[16] Eumelos's son, Spartokos III, was then able to re-establish their trade agreements with Athens[17] and was the first Spartocid ruler to assume the title of "basileus".

[19] The Bosporan Kingdom entered into a decline due to numerous attacks from nomadic Scythian tribes in the subsequent centuries leading up to its fall.

Diophantus, Mithridates's general, barely escaped the rebellion led by Saumacus, a possible Scythian and Paerisades V's adoptive heir.