Boukris or Boucris (Ancient Greek: Βοῦκρις) was an Aetolian pirate in the 3rd century BC who raided the Attic countryside and carried off slaves for sale to Crete. The incident is known from a Greek inscription where the Athenians honoured Eumaridas, a Cretan from Kydonia, for releasing the captives. Boukris might be the son of Daitas from Naupactus attested as a proxenos in Delos. Boukris was also a hieromnemon of the Aetolians in Delphi in the same century.
References
edit- de Souza, Philip. Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World, pp. 66–67 ISBN 0-521-01240-6
- Grainger, John D. The League of the Aitolians, p. 21 ISBN 90-04-10911-0
- IG II² 844 Athens
- IG XI,4 692 Delos
- FD III 3:190 Delphi