Nysa (daughter of Nicomedes III of Bithynia)
Biography
Nysa was the daughter of the Monarchs Nicomedes III of Bithynia and Nysa, a princess from the Kingdom of Cappadocia.McGing, The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus p.143 She was the namesake of her mother and had several half-brothers, Nicomedes IV of Bithynia from her fathers first marriage to Aristonica, (who reigned as king from c. 94 BC to c. 74 BC), Socrates Chrestus born by her fathers concubine Hagne, and possibly Pylaemenes III by an unknown woman (whom her father placed as king Paphlagonia). She was born and raised in Bithynia.
According to Suetonius (Caesar. 49), her cause was defended by the Roman Politician Gaius Julius Caesar in gratitude for her father's friendship.Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 1217 {{cite web |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2326.html |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1218 (V. 2) |accessdate=2010-10-07 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220182844/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2326.html |archivedate=2011-02-20 }}
Cultural depictions
Nysa is mentioned but does not appear in the novel The October Horse by Colleen McCullough.Colleen McCullough; The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra She appears briefly in Hail, Caesar! by Fletcher Pratt.Pratt, Fletcher. Williams & Norgate, 1938. Hail, Caesar! - page: 41
Ancestry
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|6= 6. Ariarathes VI Epiphanes Philopator, King of Cappadocia
|7= 7. Laodice
|8= 8. Prusias II Cynegus, King of Bithynia
|9= 9. Apama IV
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|12= 12. Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator, King of Cappadocia
|13= 13. Nysa
|14= 14. Mithridates V Euergetes, King of Pontus
|15= 15. Laodice VI
|16= 16. Prusias I Cholus, King of Bithynia
|17= 17. Apama III
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|24= 24. Ariarathes IV Eusebes, King of Cappadocia
|25= 25. Antiochis
|26= 26. Pharmaces I, King of Pontus (=28)
|27= 27. Nysa (=29)
|28= 28. Pharmaces I, King of Pontus (=26)
|29= 29. Nysa (=27)
|30= 30. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Basileus of the Seleucid Empire
|31= 31. Laodice IV
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References
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Sources
- McGing, B. C., The foreign policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus (Mnemosyne Series, Suppl.89), BRILL, 1986; {{ISBN|978-9004075917}}
- Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 1218 {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110220182844/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2326.html]}}
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