Alexander

Family: Thracian · Role: commander · First appears: Pericles

Alexander, a Thracian commander, is described as the son of Philip and Olympias, with Leonidas as his foster father and governor, Lysimachus as his pedagogue, and Aristotle as his instructor. He was attached to Demaratus, Hephaestion, Craterus, Philotas, Proteas, and Peucestes, adopted Ada as his mother, and appointed Nearchus admiral and Onesicritus pilot.

His campaigns brought him into conflict with Darius, Porus, Sisimithres, Bessus, Hermolaus, and Clitus, while Porus was allowed to govern his own kingdom as satrap. He married Statira and Roxana, courted Barsine, and had Hercules by Barsine; he also honored Hephaestion as a hero, received Exathres among his intimate friends, and showed favor to Anaxarchus, Stasicrates, and Phocion. Other accounts connect Alexander with Thebe as her husband, with Antipater as a brother, and with Deidamia as a wife.

The material also names Alexanders who were sons of Roxana, Lanassa, Deidamia, Polysperchon, and Cleopatra. In the chronological event, Antony seized Artabazes and assassinated Alexander.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antony seized Artabazes and assassinated Alexander.(Comparison of Demetrius and Antony)
  • With: Antony Artabazes
  • “the seizure of Artabazes, and the assassination of Alexander”

Pericles

• parent: Philip “And king Philip, to the same purpose, told his son Alexander, who once at a merry-meeting played a piece of music charmingly and skillfully, ”

Aemilius Paulus

• parent: Perseus “the third, who was named Alexander”

Pelopidas

• married with Thebe “Thebe, the daughter of Jason and wife to Alexander”
• enemies with Pelopidas “the tyrant, seeing them come unarmed and alone, seized them, and made himself master of Pharsalus.”
• elder kin: Polyphron “He consecrated the spear with which he killed his uncle Polyphron”
• enemies with Thebe “She, of herself, too, dreaded his inconstancy, and hated his cruelty; and, therefore, conspiring with her three brothers, Tisiphonus, Pytholaus, and Lycophron, made the following attempt upon him.”
• enemies with Tisiphonus “when one of them caught him by the feet, the other pulled him backward by the hair, and the third ran him through.”
• enemies with Pytholaus “when one of them caught him by the feet, the other pulled him backward by the hair, and the third ran him through.”
• enemies with Lycophron “when one of them caught him by the feet, the other pulled him backward by the hair, and the third ran him through.”