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Trierarchs of the Hydaspes Fleet of
Alexander the Great in 326 BC

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Name

Origin

Death/Fl.

1

Hephaestion

Macedonian from Pella; son of Amyntor

d. 324 BC

2

Leonnatus

Macedonian from Pella; son of Eunus or Anteas

d. 322 BC

3

Lysimachus[1]

Macedonian from Pella; son of Agathocles

d. 282 BC

4

Asclepiodorus

Macedonian from Pella; son of Timander

fl. 326 BC

5

Archon

Macedonian from Pella; son of Cleinias

d. 321 BC

6

Demonicus

Macedonian from Pella; son of Athenaeus

fl. 326 BC

7

Archias

Macedonian from Pella; son of Anaxidotus

fl. 324 BC

8

Ophellas

Macedonian from Pella; son of Seilenus

d. 308 BC

9

Timanthes

Macedonian from Pella; son of Pantiades

fl. 326 BC

10

Nearchus

Macedonian from Amphipolis; son of Androtimus

d. 312 BC

11

Laomedon

Macedonian from Amphipolis or Mytilene; son of Larichus

d. 319 BC?

12

Androsthenes

Macedonian from Amphipolis or Greek from Thasos; son of Callistratus

fl. 324 BC

13

Craterus

Macedonian from Orestis; son of Alexander

d. 321 BC

14

Perdiccas

Macedonian from Orestis; son of Orontes

d. 321 BC

15

Ptolemy[2]

Macedonian from Eordea; son of Lagus

d. 282 BC

16

Aristonus

Macedonian from Eordea or Pella; son of Peisaeus

d. 315 BC

17

Metron

Macedonian from Pydna; son of Epicharmus

fl. 326 BC

18

Nicarchides

Macedonian from Pydna; son of Simos

fl. 326 BC

19

Attalus

Macedonian from Pydna or Tymphaea; son of Andromenes

d. 317 BC?

20

Peucestas

Macedonian from Pydna or Mieza; son of Alexander

fl. c. 312 BC

21

Peithon

Macedonian from Pydna or Alcomene; son of Crateuas

d. 313 BC

22

Leonnatus

Macedonian from Pydna or Aegae; son of Antipater

fl. 326 BC

23

Pantauchus

Macedonian from Pydna or Alora; son of Nicolaus

fl. 326 BC

24

Mylleas

Macedonian from Pydna or of Beroia; son of Zoïlus.

fl. 326 BC

25

Medius

Greek of Larissa; son of Oxythemis

fl. 307 BC

26

Eumenes

Greek of Cardia; son of Hieronymus

d. 316 BC

27

Critobulus

Greek of Cos; son of Plato

fl. 326 BC

28

Thoas

Greek of Magnesia; son of Menodorus/Mandrodorus

d. c. 325 BC

29

Maeander

Greek of Magnesia; son of Mandrogenes

fl. 326 BC

30

Andron/Hagnon   

Greek of Teos; son of Cabeleus

fl. 317-15 BC

31

Nicocles

Greek of Soli; son of Pasicrates

fl. 326 BC

32

Nithaphon

Greek of Salamis; son of King Pnytagoras of Salamis

fl. 326 BC

33 

Bagoas

Persian, possibly from Lycia; son of Pharnuches

fl. 326 BC



Notes

1. King of Thrace in 306 BC
2. King of Egypt in 305 BC and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Sources

Arrianus, F. The Voyage of Nearchus, and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, 2nd edn. Trans. W. Vincent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1809.

Hazel, J. Who's Who in the Greek World, 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2002.

Heckel, W. Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great, rev. ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



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