Abrupolis

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title: "Abrupolis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["third-macedonian-war", "kings-of-thrace", "2nd-century-bc-monarchs-in-europe"] description: "2nd-century BC king of the Thracian Sapaei" topic_path: "general/third-macedonian-war" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrupolis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 2nd-century BC king of the Thracian Sapaei ::

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name	Abrupolis
title	King of the Thracian Sapaei
reign	2nd century BC
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Abrupolis (Ancient Greek,"Ἀβρούπολις") (fl. 2nd century BC) was a king of the Thracian Sapaei,{{cite book | last = Thirlwall | first = Connop | author-link = Connop Thirlwall | title = The History of Greece, Vol. 8 | publisher = Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans | year = 1855 | location = London | pages = 426 | url = https://archive.org/details/historygreece04thirgoog | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Abrupolis | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 3 | place = Boston, MA | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html | access-date = 2007-09-09 | archive-date = 2005-12-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051231191519/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html | url-status = dead

While some ancient (and modern) writers considered Abrupolis's routing by Perseus a primary cause of the Third Macedonian War, other, later Roman writers, and modern scholars, tended to look upon it as an act of self-defense, with Rome merely using it as one pretext for a quarrel with Perseus.

References

References

1. [[Livy]] xlii. 13. 30. 41
2. [[Polybius]]. ''The Histories'', Book XXII, §8.
3. Mommsen, Theodor. (1854). "[[History of Rome (Mommsen)".
4. [[Appian]], ''History of the Macedonian Wars'', from [[Constantine VII. Constantine Porphyrogenitus]], ''The Embassies'' §18, §22.

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