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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Hecataeus
| title = King of the Sindike Kingdom
| image =
| image_size = 250px
| caption =
| reign = circa. 390-379 BC
| native_lang1 = Greek
| native_lang1_name1 = {{lang|grc|Ἑκαταίος}}
| birth_date = Unknown
| birth_place = Sindike Kingdom
| death_date = Unknown
| death_place = Unknown
| predecessor = Unknown
| successor = [[Leukon of Bosporus|Leucon I]]
| queen =
*[[Tirgatao]]
*Unnamed daughter of [[Satyrus of Bosporus|Satyrus I]]
| royal house = Unknown
| father = Unknown
| mother = Unknown
| issue = [[Octamasades]]
}}

{{For|the historian from Miletus|Hecataeus of Miletus}}

'''Hecataeus''' ({{lang-grc|Ἑκαταίος|Hekataios}}) was the king of the Ancient Circassians ([[Sindoi|Sindians]]<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 of Bosporus|Satyrus I]] and [[Leukon of Bosporus|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 [[Leukon of Bosporus|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 ==
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[[Category:Scythian kings]]
[[Category:4th-century BC monarchs]]
[[Category:4th-century BC deaths]]

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