Philotas

Now all this speaks volumes about Alexander's character, right? He loved his animals, but at the same time he could with ease kill men who had followed him, you know, to the other side of the world.

Philotas, Parmenion, Callisthenes, Cletus and probably many others that we're never going to hear about.

The settlements were built with...

No, wait, I skipped a fucking bit.

In the face of such a multitude of men, Alexander's tactics were of necessity slightly modified.

As usual indeed, the flower of the cavalry was on his right flank, commanded by Parmenion's son Philotas, while the six divisions of the phalanx were in the center and the allied cavalry on the left under Parmenion.

But in order to guard against the special risk of being outflanked and surrounded, he held a second line in reserve, ready either to support the phalanx or to wheel around and resist an attack in flank or rear.

A few squadrons of light cavalry and bowmen were thrown forward in advance to deal by anticipation with the Scythe chariots, and under special orders to watch the enemy's cavalry on their right, and if they attempted to ride round and overlap the Macedonian right, to charge them in flank at once.

The Death of Darius.

Reduction of Parthia.

Execution of Philotas and Parmenion.

Part 1 Darius, meanwhile, who had fled through the mountains to the eastward, was resting at Agbatana.

Greatly disturbed by these stories, Alexander sent Thessalus the tragic actor to Caria to argue with Pixodarus that he ought to ignore the bastard brother, who was also a fool, and make Alexander his connection by marriage, and this plan was vastly more pleasing to Pixodarus than the former.

But Philip, becoming aware of this, went to Alexander's chamber, taking with him one of Alexander's friends and companions, Philotas, the son of Parmenio, and upbraided his son severely, and bitterly reviled him as ignoble and unworthy of his high estate, in that he desired to become the son-in-law of a man who was a Carian and a slave to a barbarian king.

And as for Thessalus, Philip wrote to the Corinthians that they should send him back to Macedonia in chains.

Moreover, of the other companions of Alexander, he banished from Macedonia Harpalus and Nearchus, as well as Erigyius and Ptolemy, men whom Alexander afterwards recalled and had in the highest honours.

Footnote, In September three thirty-five BC, Plutarch makes no mention of a previous expedition of Alexander into southern Greece immediately after Philip's death when he received the submission of all the Greek states except Sparta and was made commander-in-chief of the expedition against Persia in Philip's place.

End of footnote.

But the Thebans made a counter-demand that he should surrender to them Philotas and Antipater, and made a counter-proclamation that all who wished to help in setting Greece free should range themselves with them, and so Alexander set his Macedonians to the work of war.

On the part of the Thebans then, the struggle was carried on with a spirit and valor beyond their powers, since they were arrayed against an enemy who was many times more numerous than they.

And this plan was vastly more pleasing to Pixodarus than the former.

But Philip, becoming aware of this, went to Alexander's chamber, taking with him one of Alexander's friends and companions, Philotas, the son of Parmenio, and upbraided his son severely, and bitterly reviled him as ignoble and unworthy of his high estate, in that he desired to become the son-in-law of a man who was a Carian and a slave to a barbarian king.

And as for Thessalus, Philip wrote to the Corinthians that they should send him back to Macedonia in chains.

Moreover, of the other companions of Alexander, he banished from Macedonia Harpalus and Nearchus, as well as Erigyius and Ptolemy, men whom Alexander afterwards recalled and had in the highest honors.

Arrived before Thebes, and wishing to give her still a chance to repent of what she had done, he merely demanded the surrender of Phoenix and Prothes and proclaimed an amnesty for those who came over to his side.

In September, Three Thirty-Five B.C. Plutarch makes no mention of a previous expedition of Alexander into southern Greece immediately after Philip's death when he received the submission of all the Greek states except Sparta and was made commander-in-chief of the expedition against Persia in Philip's place.

But the Thebans made a counter-demand that he should surrender to them Philotas and Antipater, and made a counter-proclamation that all who wished to help in setting Greece free should range themselves with them; and so Alexander set his Macedonians to the work of war.

On the part of the Thebans, then, the struggle was carried on with a spirit and valour beyond their powers, since they were arrayed against an enemy who was many times more numerous than they; but when the Macedonian garrison also, leaving the citadel of the Cadmea, fell upon them in the rear, most of them were surrounded, and fell in the battle itself; and their city was taken, plundered, and razed to the ground.

And this plan was vastly more pleasing to Pixodarus than the former.

But Philip, becoming aware of this, went to Alexander's chamber, taking with him one of Alexander's friends and companions, Philotas, the son of Parmenio, and upbraided his son severely, and bitterly reviled him as ignoble and unworthy of his high estate, in that he desired to become the son-in-law of a man who was a Carian and a slave to a barbarian king.

And as for Thessalus, Philip wrote to the Corinthians that they should send him back to Macedonia in chains.

Moreover, of the other companions of Alexander, he banished from Macedonia Harpalus and Niarchus, as well as Erigyius and Ptolemy, men whom Alexander afterwards recalled and had in the highest honours.

In September 335 BC, Plutarch makes no mention of a previous expedition of Alexander into southern Greece immediately after Philip's death when he received the submission of all the Greek states except Sparta and was made commander-in-chief of the expedition against Persia in Philip's place.

End of footnote.

But the Thebans made a counter-demand that he should surrender to them Philotas and Antipater, and made a counter-proclamation that all who wished to help in setting Greece free should range themselves with them, and so Alexander set his Macedonians to the work of war.

On the part of the Thebans, then, the struggle was carried on with a spirit and valor beyond their powers, since they were arrayed against an enemy who was many times more numerous than they.