Mausole , in Greek old Μαύσωλος / Maúsôlos († 353 av. J. - C.), satrap of Decay.

Biography

Wire of Hécatomnus, it is named satrap of Carie towards 377 av. J. - C.

In 362, it took share with the revolt against Artaxerxès II Mnémon , which enables him to increase its provinces towards the Lydie and the Ionie. He proclaims himself then independent, and He moved his capital of Mylasa, the old residence of kings de Carie with Halicarnasse, on the gulf of Cos. In 358, it assists from Rhodos and its allies, Chios and Byzance, against Athens in the Social War.

Mausole was the oldest son of Hecatomnus de Mylasa, a native carien who had become satrap of Decay with died of Tissapherne, towards 395. These Masters of the Decay had adopted the Greek culture.

Died without posterity, he is especially known by the tomb set up with his intention by Artémise II, his sister and widow: the Mausoleum of Halicarnasse which was one of the Seven wonders of the world. The architects Satyrus and Pythis and the sculptors Scopas, Léocharès, Bryaxis and Timothée, completed the work after the death of Artémise, some of them not working, one said it, whom for the reputation that they acquired. The term of Mausoleum ended up being used in a generic way for any imposing tomb. Its site and some vestiges are always visible in the Turkish city of Bodrum.

A discovered inscription with Mylasa (Philipp August Böckh, Inscr. gr. II. 2691 C.) detail the punishment of some conspirators who had tried to assassinate Mausole at the time of a festival in a temple of Labranda into 353.

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