The Spartocids or Spartocidae was the name of a Hellenized Thracian dynasty that ruled the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bosporus
between the years 438–108 BC. They had usurped the former dynasty, the Archaeanactids, a Greek dynasty of the Bosporan Kingdom
who were tyrants of Panticapaeum from 480 - 438 BC that were usurped from the Bosporan throne by Spartocus I in 438 BC, whom
the dynasty is named after.
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