Crateuas_of_Macedon

Crateuas of Macedon

Crateuas of Macedon

Assassin of Archelaus I of Macedon

Crateuas (Ancient Greek: Κρατεύας, modern Kratevas), also called Craterus (Ancient Greek: Κρατερός, Krateros), was according to some ancient sources the lover, and killer, of Archelaus I of Macedon, whom he killed to become a king himself.[1][2] 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.[3] A third version asserts that Archelaus was unintentionally struck by Crateuas during a hunt.[4] Modern historians view the idea that Crateuas actually reigned as king of Macedon to be "obviously absurd".[5]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Pseudo-Plato, Alcibiades II, 141d
  2. [2]
    Aristotle, Politics, V, 10 (1311b).
  3. [3]
    Aelian, Varia historia, VIII, 9.
  4. [4]
    Diodorus Siculus, Library, XIV, 37, 6.
  5. [5]
    Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière; Griffith, Guy Thompson (1972). A History of Macedonia: 550-336 B.C. Clarendon Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-19-814814-2.
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