СПАРАДОК И РОДСТВОТО МУ СЪС СИТАЛК
SPARADOKOS AND HIS KINSHIP WITH SITALKES

Summary/Abstract: Sparatokos was a Thracian dynast from the 5th century BC, who had his own coinage, but about whose rule there is no written evidence. Based on two references in Thucydides, where Sparadokos’ name appears as the name of the father of Seuthes, Sitalkes’ nephew, it is believed that Sparadokos was brother of Sitalkes and accordingly son of Teres. However, the word ἀδελφιδοῦς (nephew) means both brother’s and sister’s son, and this allows the hypothesis that Sparadokos was Sitalkes’ brother-in-law, not brother. It is highly probable that a political alliance was concluded between the Odrysian dynastic home and Sparadokos as the ruler of one or more tribes in the southeastern part of Thrace through the marriage of the daughter of Teres and sister of Sitalkes.

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