Dyteutus

{{short description|1st-century AD Galatian priest and ruler of Comana in Cappadocia}}

Dyteutus (died AD 34), eldest son of the Galatian ruler Adiatorix, was a ruler of Comana, a city in Cappadocia. After the father and his eldest son were sentenced to death by Octavianus for the father's partisanship towards Mark Antony, Dyteutus's younger brother asked to die in his brother's place, claiming that he was in fact the elder son.{{cite book | last = Syme | first = Ronald | author-link = Ronald Syme |author2=Anthony Richard Birley |author-link2=Anthony Birley | title = Anatolica: Studies in Strabo | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1995 | location = Oxford | pages = 169 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I7kSRCcu4xoC | isbn = 0-19-814943-3}} At first Dyteutus resisted, but was persuaded by his father and mother to go along with the deception, on the grounds that his maturity would secure greater protection for his mother and the other surviving members of his family, and the younger brother was put to death.{{Cite book | contribution = Bellona | year = 1845 | title = Encyclopædia metropolitana | editor-last = Smedley | editor-first = Edward | editor-link=Edward Smedley|volume = XV | pages = 414 | place = London | publisher = Google| contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xmH3o3vZk2AC&q=bellona&pg=PA414 }} Some contemporary writers reckon the guilt over this false execution was what led Augustus to elevate Dyteutus to rule Comana.Appian, in Mith. sub fine.{{cite book | last = Cramer | first = John Antony | author-link = John Antony Cramer | title = A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1832 | location = Oxford | pages = [https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft/page/307 307]–308 | url = https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft }}

After extremely brief intervening reigns by Medeius and the brigand-king Cleon of Gordiucome, Dyteutus succeeded Lycomedes as priest of the celebrated goddess Bellona,{{cite book | last = Sullivan | first = Richard D. | title = Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 BC | publisher = University of Toronto Press | date = 1990 | location = Toronto | pages = 171 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=E70wAAAAIAAJ | isbn = 0-8020-2682-6}} and therefore ruler of Comana.Strabo, xii. pp. 543, 558, 559Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares ii. 12 He had a long reign; the temple-state of Comana was annexed to the Roman province of Galatia upon his death in AD 34.{{cite book | last = Dueck | first = Daniela | title = Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2005 | location = Cambridge | pages = 197 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKpWm2cXNmwC | isbn = 0-521-85306-0}}{{cite book | last = Erciyas | first = Deniz Burcu | title = Wealth, Aristocracy and Royal Propaganda Under the Hellenistic Kingdom of the Mithradatids | publisher = Brill Publishers | date = 2005 | location = Leiden | pages = 49 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ghdXySx1JvwC | isbn = 90-04-14609-1}}