{{Short description|4th-century BC king of the Circassians}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Hecataeus | title = King of the Sindica Kingdom | image = | image_size = 250px | caption = | reign = circa. 405-379 BC | native_lang1 = Greek | native_lang1_name1 = {{lang|grc|Ἑκαταίος}} | birth_date = Unknown | birth_place = Sindica Kingdom | death_date = Unknown | death_place = Unknown | predecessor = Unknown | successor = Leucon I | queen = *Tirgatao *Unnamed daughter of Satyrus I | royal house = Unknown | father = Unknown | mother = Unknown | issue = Octamasades }}
{{For|the historian from Miletus|Hecataeus of Miletus}}
'''Hecataeus''' ({{langx|grc|Ἑκαταίος|Hekataios}}) was the King of the Ancient Sintis (Sindis<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote= king of the Sindi, a people who live a little above the Bosphorus.}}</ref>) throughout the reigns of both Satyrus I and Leucon I of the Bosporan Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1}}</ref>
He was married to Tirgatao, a powerful Maeotian princess from the tribe of the Ixomatae and to a daughter of Satyrus.<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote=At last she reached the country of the Ixomatae, where her own family possessed the throne}}</ref>
He was also the father of Octamasades, who would later usurp the throne from his father, after which Leucon, seeing an opportunity to annex Sindike, waged war on Octamasades.
==Reign== Not much is known about Hecataeus' life or much of his reign, only that he, instead of killing Tirgatao on Satyrus' advice, locked her away in a castle in which she eventually got away from.<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote=but confined her to a strong castle; however, she found a way of making her escape from there}}</ref> Satyrus and Leucon searched for her, but she eluded them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote= Hecataeus and Satyrus made a strict search for her, which she skilfully eluded}}</ref> She would wage war on both her former husband and Satyrus,<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote=The confederates first invaded the country of Hecataeus, and afterwards ravaged the dominions of Satyrus. }}</ref> forcing them to sue for peace.<ref>{{cite book|last=Polyaenus|title=Strategems 6.9.1|url=http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus7.html#37.1|quote=Harassed by a war, in which they found themselves inferior to the enemy, they sent an embassy to sue for peace,}}</ref>
==Losing the throne and abdication== Octamasades usurped the throne from his father, and then found himself in a war against Leucon.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tokhtasev|first1=S.R.|title=Bosporus and the Sindike In the era of Leukon I|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/32215607/Tokhtasev-S-R-Bosporus-and-the-Sindike-in-the-era-of-Leukon-I}}</ref> Leucon managed to drive Octamasades into Scythia after a single battle, in which Leucon reportedly said that he “made a vow to erect a victory monument, not to the local Apollo of Labrys, but to the supreme deity and patron of all the Bosporans, Apollo the Healer."<ref>{{cite book|last=Tokhtasev|first1=S.R.|title=Bosporus and the Sindike In the era of Leukon I|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/32215607/Tokhtasev-S-R-Bosporus-and-the-Sindike-in-the-era-of-Leukon-I}}</ref> Leucon then persuaded Hecataeus to resign the throne and give it to him instead. The Sindike kingdom became the Asiatic portion of the Bosporan Kingdom, which was subsequently inherited by Gorgippus.
== References == {{reflist|20em}}
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