Ariston (General)
Ariston ( Greek Ἀρίστων ) was a Macedonian equestrian officer and companion ( hetairos ) of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
During the Asian campaign , Ariston led the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. BC as ilarchos one of the eight squadrons of the Hetairenreiterei . After that he is no longer mentioned.
Waldemar Heckel as well as Helmut Berve consider it possible to identify the cavalry officer Ariston with the person of the same name who, during the Diadoch Wars (more precisely during the siege of Tire 314–313 BC ), found the remains of the crater that Eumenes had entrusted to him, to whose widow Phila gave. If this is the case, the officer Ariston would be after Alexander's death in 323 BC. First in the retinue of Eumenes and after his end 316 BC. In that of Antigonos Monophthalmos .
literature
- Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire . Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 , p. 48.
- Johannes Kirchner : Ariston 28). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 951.
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Ariston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Macedonian equestrian officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |