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Philotas
(583 words)
(Φιλώτας;
Philṓtas). [German version] [1] Macedonian nobleman, 4th cent. BC Eldest son of Parmenion [1]; following Philippus' [I 4] II marriage to Cleopa…
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Metron
(62 words)
[German version] (Μήτρων;
Mḗtrōn). One of the
basilikoi paides , responsible for the arsenal of Alexander [4] the Great in 330 BC. He heard of the conspiracy of Dimnus from Cebalinus, and reported it to Alexander (Curt. 6,7; Diod. 17,79,4-5). He is not to be identified with a trierarch of the Hydaspes fleet (Arr. Ind. 18,5). Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA)
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Hermolaus
(158 words)
(Ἑρμόλαος;
Hermólaos). [German version] [1] Conspirator against Alexander the Great Son of Sopolis, page ( Basilikoi paides) of Alexander [4], pre-empted the king in the slaying of a wild boar and was humiliatingly punished by him (327 BC). In revenge he hatched a conspiracy among the pages but it failed and was betrayed to the king. The accused, after being tortured, were sentenced to death and stoned with the consent of the army. Callisthenes, hated by Alexander as an opponent of proskynesis, was sus…
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Peucestas
(257 words)
(Πευκέστας;
Peukéstas). [German version] [1] Commander of …
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Alexander historians
(302 words)
[German version] Collective name for the ancient authors, who wrote about the history and biography of Alexander [4] (the Great). Callisthenes was his court historian and fulfilled the duties expected of him until their quarrel. Many of the later histories are based on his, which was published right away (until 330 BC?). Of the eyewitnesses, only Ptolemaeus and Aristoboulus [7] seem to have described all campaigns; both praised Alexander. They wrote many years later, used Callisthenes and prob…
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Mazarus
(67 words)
[German version] (Μάζαρος;
Mázaros).
Hetaîros (
hetaîroi ) of Alexander [4] the Great. According to Arrian (Arr. Anab. 3,16,9), he was appointed fortress commander in Susa in 331/30 BC. Curtius (5,2,16) names Xenophilus instead. Since the name M. is Iranian, Arrian probably confused him with the Persian predecessor. Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) Bibliography A. B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History, vol. 1, 1980, 319.
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Bucephalus, Bucephalas
(115 words)
[German version] (Βουκεφάλας;
Boukephálas). Thessalian warhorse, a gift to Alexander [4] as a boy. He was allegedly the only person capable of breaking him in. He never rode any other and it is illustrated with him in heroic style on the Alexander Mosaic and the Alexander Sarcophagus. B. died at a great age after the battle on the Hydaspes and Alexander founded a city, Bucephala in his honour. The life and death of B. are richly embellished in the ‘Vulgate’ ( Alexander historians) and in the Alexander Romance. Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) Bibliography A. R. Anderson, Bucephalas and his Legend, in: AJPh 51, 1930, 1-21 (with all sources, including for the Romance, in English trans.).
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Gorgus
(126 words)
[German version] (Γόργος;
Górgos). In 324 BC, G. of Iasos ─ in the role of the ‘keeper of weapons’ (
hoplophýlax, ὁπλοφύλαξ) ─ interceded with Alexander [4] the Great on behalf of the Samians expelled by the Athenians and tried to persuade Alexander to start a campaign against Athens (Ath. 12,538b). After the latter's death, G. had Iasos allow the return of Samians to Athens at the city's expense. The newly created community of Samos honoured him and his brother Minnion for their merits by granting them citizenship among other things (Syll.3 312). The brothers had succeeded in obtai…
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Agathocles
(1,543 words)
(Ἀγαθοκλῆς;
Agathoklês) [German version] [1] of Athens Archon 357/56 BC Archon 357/56 BC (Dem. Or. 47,44; Diod. Sic. 16,9). Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld) [German version] [2] Tyrant King of Syracuse (316-288 BC) Later king of Syracuse, born 361/0 BC in Thermae in Sicily. Son of Carcinus, who had been banned from Rhegium, and who under Timoleon had received citizenship in Syracuse and had a pottery manufactory. A. had an adventurous youth, participated in several martial undertakings and early on fostered broad-reaching politica…
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Thersippus
(102 words)
[German version] (Θέρσιππος;
Thérsippos). Participant in Alexander [4] the Great's campaign. Alexander sent him from Marathus to Darius [3] in 333/2 with a reply to his first offer of peace (Arr. An. 2,14,4; Curt. 4,1,14); perhaps identical with the T. who after Alexander's death is honoured in a decree by the Nesiotae [2] (OGIS 4) (see [1. vol. 1,369; vol. 2.2,376]). Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) Bibliography
1 G. A. Droysen, Gesch. des Hellenismus, 3 vols., 21877/8 (reprint of this ed. 1952/3, ed. by E. Bayer, 1980)
2 Berve, No. 368
3 E. Poddighe, Il decreto dell'isola di Nes…
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Hegelochus
(247 words)
(Ἡγέλοχος;
Hēgélochos). [German version] [1] Fleet officer under Alexander the Great, 4th cent. BC Son of Hippostratus, officer under Alexander [4]. Initially commander of the vanguard cavalry, he was commissioned to form a Macedonian fleet from ships collected from Greek cities in the summer of 333 BC (Arr. Anab. 2,2,3; inexact Curt. 3,1,19f.; Amphoterus was his subordinate, not his colleague). After the death of Memnon his fleet dominated the Hellespont, where he i.a. stopped an Athenian grain fleet (Ps.-Dem. Or. 17,20). He co…
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Menedemus
(1,406 words)
(Μενέδημος;
Menédēmos). [German version] [1] Functionary of Alexander the Great, 329 BC …
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Stratonice
(826 words)
(Στρατονίκη;
Stratoníkē). [German version] [1] Daughter of Alexander [2] I, c. 500 BC Daughter of the Macedonian king Alexander [II 2] I. In the winter of 429/8 BC, she was married by her brother Perdiccas [2] II to Seuthes [1], nephew of the Odrysian king Sitalces [1], in exchange for Seuthes' having achieved the withdrawal of Thracian troops from Macedonia (Thuc. 2,101,5 f.). Zahrnt, Michael (Kiel) [German version] [2] Wife of Antigonus [1], 4th cent. BC Daughter of one Corrhagus, married to Antigonus [1], mother of Demetrius [2] Poliorketes and a Philippus, who died young. In 317 BC, she helped Docimus, who was interned in a fortress wit…
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Ada
(124 words)
[German version] Younger daughter of Hecatomnus, ruled Caria with her brother and husband Idrieus, afte…
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Philocles
(895 words)
(Φιλοκλῆς;
Philoklês). [German version] [1] Athenian demagogue Athenian demagogue, elected to the office of
stratēgós in 406/5 BC and dispatched with the fleet to Conon [1] at Samos, both of whom thereupon were in command of the fleet in the Hellespont. Re-elected as a
stratēgós, and subsequently partially to blame for the defeat in 405 BC at Aigos Potamos, P. was captured and executed by Lysander [1] for having had the crews of two captured Spartan triremes thrown into the sea (Xen. Hell. 1,7,1; 2,1,32f.; Diod. Sic. 13,104,1f.; Paus. 9, 32,9; Plut. Lysander 13,1f.; Plut. Sulla 42,8). Schmi…
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