Gorgippus was a prominent figure of the
Bosporan Wars of Expansion, after he became joint-ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom alongside his brother Leukon upon the death of their father Satyros I. He seems to have ended the war his father had unsuccessfully begun with queen
Tirgatao of the
Maeotians, who had been wronged by Satyrus earlier on in diplomatic relations with
Hecataeus. Additionally, he seems to have renamed Sindia, the capital of the
Sindike Kingdom, to
Gorgippia, after himself. In a speech against the
Athenian orator
Demosthenes, Gorgippus was described as one of the "detested tyrants", alongside
Paerisades I and
Satyrus I for whom Demosthenes had erected statues in Athens due to his grandfather's relation with the
Spartocids. The same speech claimed that Demosthenes received a thousand bushels of grain from Gorgippus annually. Gorgippus' daughter, Comosarye, may have been of Sindian descent. She married her cousin
Paerisades I, a son of Leucon and later ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom.{{cite journal|last=D. E. W. Wormell|title=Studies in Greek tyranny—II. Leucon of Bosporus ==References==