Iolaos (son of Antipater)

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Iolaos or Iollas (giech: Ἰόλαος; † around 318 BC) was the cupbearer and alleged murderer of Alexander the great .

He was the youngest son of Antipater , who as the ruler of Macedonia was an intimate enemy of the Queen Mother Olympias . His brother was a cassander .

Iolaos is named as Alexander's page in the last years of the Asian campaign. It has been suggested that he lived in 323 BC. In Babylon on the occasion of the drinking bout of Medios poisoned the king who died after a short illness.

In 322 BC Iolaos took his sister Nikaia to Asia in order to marry her to the imperial regent Perdiccas . But she abandoned her to marry Cleopatra .

When during the Second Diadoch War in 317 BC When Olympias returned to Pella from her exile in Epirus , she desecrated Iolaos' grave as revenge for the alleged murder of her son.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Justin , 12-14-9
  2. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 7.27.1-2
  3. ↑ Justin, 12.13.6
  4. ^ Curtius Rufus , 10.10.14-19
  5. ↑ Plutarch , Alexander 77.2-3
  6. ^ Diodorus , 17.118.1-2
  7. ↑ Arrian, Tà metà Aléxandron FGrHist 156 F9 §21
  8. ↑ Diodorus, November 19, 8
personal data
SURNAME Iolaos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iollas, Ἰόλαος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Page and alleged murderer of Alexander the Great
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 318 BC Chr.