Sitalces (reigned 431 - 424 BC) was one of the great kings of the Thracian Odrysian state. He was the son of Teres, and on the sudden death of his father in 431 BC succeeded to the throne. Sitalces enlarged his kingdom by successful wars, and it soon comprised the whole territory from Abdera in the south to the mouths of the Danube in the north, and from Black Sea in the east to the sources of the Struma in the west. At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance wit… (More on Sitalces)