Asti (Greek: Αστοί) is the name of a Thracian tribe which is mentioned by Livy.1 It is believed that they lived around the old Thracian capital of Bizye.2
List of rulers
A possible continuation of the earlier Odrysian monarchy under a line of kings reigning from Bizye (now Vize) in eastern Thrace.3
- Cotys V, son of ? Beithys (?-by 87 BC)
- Sadalas I, son of Cotys V (by 87–after 79 BC)
- Amadocus, Odrysian royal sent to the aid of Sulla at Chaeronea in 86 BC
- Cotys VI, son of Sadalas I (by 57–48 BC)4
- Sadalas II, son of Cotys VI (48–42 BC)
- Sadalas III, kinsman of Sadalas II (42-31 BC)
- Cotys VII, son of Sadalas II by Polemocratia (31–18 BC)
- Rhescuporis II, son of Cotys VII by daughter of the Sapaean king Cotys II, killed by the Bessi (18–11 BC)
- 11 BC Astaean Thrace conferred on Rhescuporis II's maternal uncle, the Sapaean king Rhoemetalces I, by the Roman emperor Augustus, thereby uniting Thrace
Family tree of Astaean kings in Thrace
| Cotys IV in inner Thrace ODRYSIAN KINGS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dyegilos king of Caeni | Bithys in inner Thrace BRANCH OF ASTAEAN KINGS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cotys V | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sadalas I | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cotys VI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sadalas II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sadalas III | Cotys VII | (woman) | Rhoemetalces I king of Sapaeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhescuporis II (Astaean) | SAPAEAN KINGS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
References
- Livy XXXVIII.40
- A. H. M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 2nd Edition
- Mladjov, Thracian Kings, University of Michigan; Werner 1961: 117-119, 239, 242; Sullivan 1990: 25-30, 145-151, stemma 1.
- Kessler, P L. "Kingdoms of Greece - Sapes (Thrace)". www.historyfiles.co.uk.