Reign 326 BCE - 278 BCE Parents Bas of Bithynia Name Zipoetes of Grandparents Boteiras | Died 278 BCE (age 76) | |
Children Nicomedes I of Bithynia, Zipoetes II of Bithynia | ||
Great grandchildren Prusias I of Bithynia | ||
Zipoetes I of Bithynia, died of old age in 278 BCE
Zipoetes I, also Zipoites I or Ziboetes I, possibly Tiboetes I (Greek: Zιπoίτης or Zιβoίτης (three syllables, oe is a diphthong); lived c. 354 BC – 278 BC, ruled c. 326 BC – 278 BC) was the second independent ruler of Bithynia.
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Life
He succeeded his father Bas on the throne in about 326 BC and reigned for forty-eight years, waging successful wars with Lysimachus and Antiochus, the son of Seleucus I Nicator. In 315 BC he waged war against Astacus and Chalcedon, which failed in the face of a relief army sent by Antigonus I Monophthalmus. In 301, after Antigonus' death, he attacked again, and was victorious, but Astacus was destroyed in the war. He founded a city which was called Zipoetium (after himself) at the foot of Mount Lypedron; the exact locations of both the city and the mountain are unknown.
He lived to around the age of seventy-six, and left behind him four children, the eldest of whom, Nicomedes, succeeded him. He was the first ruler of Bithyinia to assume the title of basileus (king), assuming this title in the year 297 BC.