Alexander's courtiers (original) (raw)

For Alexander, when his fleet was made ready on the banks of the Hydaspes, collected together all the Phoenicians and all the Cyprians and Egyptians who had followed the northern expedition. From these he manned his ships, picking out as crews and rowers for them any who were skilled in seafaring. There were also a good many islanders in the army, who understood these things, and Ionians and Hellespontines. As commanders of triremes were appointed:

from the Macedonians,

• Hephaestionson of Amyntor [1],
• Leonnatusson of Anteas,
• Lysimachusson of Agathocles,
• Asclepiodorus son of Timander,
• Archon son of Cleinias,
• Demonicus son of Athenaeus,
• Archias son of Anaxidotus,
• Ophellasson of Silenus,
• and Timanthes son of Pantiades; all these were of Pella.

From Amphipolisthese were appointed officers:

• Nearchusson of Androtimus, who wrote the account of the voyage,
• Laomedon son of Larichus,
• and Androsthenes son of Callistratus.

And from Orestis:

• Craterusson of Alexander
• and Perdiccasson of Orontes.

Of Eordaea:

• Ptolemyson of Lagos
• and Aristonous son of Peisaeus.

From Pydna:

• Metron son of Epicharmus
• and Nicarchides son of Simus.

Then besides:

• Attalus son of Andromenes, of Stympha,
• Peucestasson of Alexander, from Mieza,
• Peithonson of Crateuas, of Alcomenae,
• Leonnatus son of Antipater, of Aegae,
• Pantauchus son of Nicolaus, of Aloris,
• Mylleas son of Zoilus, of Beroea; all these being Macedonians.

Of the Greeks

• Medius son of Oxynthemis, of Larisa [2],
• Eumenesson of Hieronymus, from Cardia [3],
• Critobulus, son of Plato, of Cos,
• Thoas son of Menodorus,
• Maeander, son of Mandrogenes, of Magnesia,
• and Andron son of Cabeleus, of Teos.

Of the Cyprians:

• Nicocles son of Pasicrates, of Soli,
• and Nithaphon son of Pnytagoras, of Salamis.

Alexander appointed also a Persian trierarch, Bagoas son of Pharnuces [4].

Of Alexander's own ship the helmsman was Onesicritus of Astypalaea; and the accountant of the whole fleet was Euagoras son of Eucleon, of Corinth. As admiral was appointed Nearchus, son of Androtimus, Cretan by race, and he lived in Amphipolis on the Strymon.