Who's Who in the Age of Alexander and His Successors by Waldemar Heckel;Peter G Tsouras;

Author:Waldemar Heckel;Peter G Tsouras;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Head of State
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

623 KRATEROS

(Κρατερός). Macedonian (Tataki 349 no. 93). Son of the famous Krateros son of Alexander and Phila. Thus a half-brother of Antigonos Gonatas, with whom he was on good terms (Plut. Mor. 486a; cf. Phlegon, Mir. 32). Born no later than early 320. The parents were married in the winter of 322/1 (Diod. 18.18.7) and the father died in battle in spring 320. If the inscription that accompanied the lion hunt monument of Krateros can be taken literally, the younger K. was a child when his father crossed over to Asia for the last time (for the date of that dedication see Dunn and Wheatley 2012; cf. Heckel, Marshals2 147– 8, with a summary of literature on 148 n.158). K. was in all likelihood the compiler of decrees (Ψηφισμάτων Συναγωγή or Περὶ Ψηφισμάτων, FGH 342), sharing with his uncle Marsyas (no. 683) an interest in historical research. K. was not militarily or politically active until the third century, though as a youth he must have spent a considerable time in the military camp of his stepfather Demetrios Poliorketes. Whether he fought at Ipsos, when he was about nineteen or twenty years old, is unclear. Billows 396–7 no. 60; Schoch, RE ΧΙ (1922) 1617–22 no. 1; Jacoby, FGrH IIIb 62–77; Tarn, AG passim; Homolle 1897; Dunn and Wheatley 2012. Stemma V.

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