Idrieus (in
Greek Ιδριεύς; died in
344 BC) was a king or dynast of
Caria. He was the second son of
Hecatomnus, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his sister
Artemisia in
351 BC. Shortly after his accession he was required by the Persian king,
Artaxerxes III Ochus, to fit out an armament for the reduction of
Cyprus, a request with which he readily complied; and having equipped a fleet of 40
triremes, and assembled an army of 8000 mercenary troops, despatched them against
Cyprus, under the command of
Evagoras and the
Athenian general
Phocion. This is the only event of his reign which is recorded to us; but we may infer, from an expression of
Isocrates, in
346 BC, that the friendly relations between him and the Persian king did not long continue: they appear to have come even to an open rupture. But the hostility of Persia did not interfere with prosperity, for he is spoken of by Isocrates in the same passage as one of the most wealthy and powerful of the princes of Asia; and
Demosthenes tells us that he had added to his hereditary dominions the important islands of
Chios,
Cos, and
Rhodes. He died of disease in
344 BC, after a reign of seven years, leaving the sovereign power, by his will, to his sister
Ada, to whom he had been married.
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