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Agis - royal bodyguard to Philip
Aischenes - former actor, Athenian envoy
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (11)
Alexandros of Epiros - Olympias' brother, King of Epiros
Amyntas - son of Philip's brother Perdikkas, a royal nephew
Amyntor - Hephaistion's father
Antipatros - general under Philip, ambassador to Athens,
Regent
Archelaos (2) - King of Macedonia, original builder of the
palace at Pella
Aristodemos - Athenian envoy
Aristotle - Alexander's tutor
life & works
Arridaios - idiot son of Philip; co-ruler of Macedon after Alexander
Attalos - next in command after Parmenion at Chaironeia
Darius - Great King of Persia
Demaratos - Corinthian aristocrat, host to Philip at Council of
Corinth
Demosthenes - orator, envoy from Athens, coward at Chaironeia
Dionysios the Younger - Corinthian schoolmaster, former ruler of
Syracuse
Eurydike - Attalos' niece, married to Philip
Gyras - a soldier, Alexander joins him in his blood feud
Gorgo - girl at Aigai during the Dionysia
Harpolos - Companion of Alexander, a clubfoot
Hellanike - nursemaid to Alexander (aka Lanike)
Hephaistion - Alexander's lifelong lover
Hyrmina - woman from Epiros, mysteries companion to Olympias
Isokrates - philosopher who urged Philip to unify Greece
Kallixeina -
hetaira sent by Olympias for Alexander at Ptolemy's
dinner
Kassandros - Companion to unwilling Alexander, son of
Antipatros
Kleopatra (4) - younger sister of Alexander
Kleitos - Hellanike's younger brother, Captain of the Companions
Ktesiphon - Athenian envoy
Lambaros - Thracian prince, hostage at Pella
Leonidas - Olympia's uncle and Alexander's first teacher
other teachers: Timanthes (grammar), Epikrates (music),
Naukles (mathematics), Derkylos (gymnastics)
Lynkestids - sons of Airopos: Alexandros, Heromenes, Arrabaios
Lysimachos (1) - Philip's palace-guest, later tutor to Alexander,
nicknamed Phoinix
Melissa - Nubian servant/companion to Kleopatra
Nearchos - companion to Alexander, sea captain
Ochos - earlier Great King of Persia, Darius' predecessor
Olympias (2) - Alexander's mother, orphaned daughter of Epiros
king description
Pausanias - Philip's bodyguard, next Somatophylax, then his
assassin
Parmenion - general under Philip
Peithon - soldier who saves Alexander at Doriskos
Perdikkas - Philip's older brother
Persian envoys (Artabazos,
Menapis) - rebel satraps hosted by Alexander aged 5
Philip (3) - Alexander's father, King of Macedon 359-336, description
Philokrates - an Athenian envoy, secret agent of Philip in Athens
Philotas - Companion of Alexander, son of Parmenion
Pixodoros - satrap king of Karia, to-be father-in-law of Arridaios
Ptolemy - Companion of Alexander, his half-brother (Philip's son)
Thais - Athenian hetaira in Corinth, Ptolemy's girlfriend
Theagenes - Theban commander of confederate forces at Chaironeia
Thettalos - Sophoclean actor at Pella (see Mask of Apollo), in love
with Alexander
Zeuxis - painter of the palace at Pella
Animals
Boukephalas - Oxhead, Alexander's horse
Glaukos - the house snake at Pella
Peritas - Alexander's deerhound
Tyche - another house snake, Alexander's own
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