Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Teres

by Various Authors

TERES (Τήρης). 1. King of the Odrysae and father of Sitalces, was the founder of the great Odryssian monarchy A daughter of his married Ariapeithes, king of the Scythians. (Herod, iv. 80, vii. 137 ; Thuc. ii. 29 ; Xen. Anab. vii. 2. § 22, 5. § 1.)

2. King of a portion of Thrace in the time of Philip of Macedon, with whom he was at first allied against the Athenians. Afterwards, however, he joined Cersobleptes in hostilities to Philip, and, together with his confederate, was subdued by the Macedonian king early in B. C. 342. (Phil. Ep. ad Ath. ap. Demost. p. 161; corap. Diod, xvi. 71.) [Cersobleptes.] [E. E.]