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Crateuas (other)
Crateuas may refer to: * Crateuas or Craterus of Macedon, King of Macedon in 399 BC * Crateuas, father of Peithon of Macedon * Crateuas or Cratevas (physician), Greek artist, physician, and herbalist {{hndis, name=Crateuas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crateuas Of Macedon
Crateuas ( grc, Κρατεύας, modern '), also called Craterus ( grc, Κρατερός, '), was according to some ancient sources the lover, and killer, of Archelaus I of Macedon, whom he killed to become a king himself.Pseudo-Plato, ''Alcibiades II''141d/ref>Aristotle, ''Politics''V, 10 (1311b) According to another version, Crateuas killed the king because Archelaus had promised to give him one of his daughters in marriage, but later gave her to someone else.Aelian, ''Varia historia'', VIII, 9. A third version asserts that Archelaus was unintentionally struck by Crateuas during a hunt.Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ..., ''Library''XIV, 37, 6 Modern historians view the idea that Crateuas actually reigned as king of Macedon to be "obviously absurd". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peithon
Peithon or Pithon (Greek: ''Πείθων'' or ''Πίθων'', 355 – 314 BC) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia. He was famous for being one of the bodyguards of Alexander the Great, becoming the later satrap of Media, and claiming to be one of the diadochi. Peithon was named one of the seven (later eight) Somatophylakes "bodyguards" of Alexander in 335 BC. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Peithon was made the satrap of Media, the strategically important region that controlled all roads between east and west. The satrapy was too large for one man; Peithon would be very powerful, and could destabilize the entire empire. Therefore, he had to give up the northern part, which was given to Atropates; from then on the region was known as Media Atropatene. The soldiers who remained in the eastern part of Alexander's realm after his death grew agitated by their lengthy stay abroad, and began spontaneous revolts. The regent Perdiccas sent Peit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |