Clitus the White

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Kleitos the White ( Greek Κλείτος Λευκός; † 317 BC) was a Macedonian naval commander ( nauarchos ) and diadoche in the 4th century BC.

He took part in Alexander the Great's Asian campaign as a taxiarch (commander) of a phalanx . In the Battle of the Hydaspes he crossed the river of the same name with Alexander . After the revolt of the army in Opis in 324 BC He was ordered back to Europe with the veterans under Krateros .

There he supported Antipater in the Lamish war against the revolting Greeks. In the autumn of 322 BC In BC he won the decisive naval battle at Amorgos over Athens . After Plutarch , Kleitos is said to have called himself Poseidon after this victory and from then on wore a trident. For his services he was named after the first Diadoch war in 320 BC. At the conference of Triparadeisos entrusted with the province of Lydia . In the second diadoch war, Kleitos supported the regent Polyperchon . In doing so he lost 319 BC. Lydia to Antigonus Monophthalmos . In the summer of 317 BC It came to the battle of Byzantion , in which Clitus was initially victorious against Nikanor , but then lost to Antigonus. He managed to escape to Thrace , where he was captured and slain by Lysimachus .

He was nicknamed as a distinction to Kleitos the black .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arrian , Anabasis , 5, 12, 2.
  2. Jump up ↑ Justin 12:12 , 8.
  3. ↑ Plutarch Moralia 338a
  4. ↑ Diodor 18, 72, 5-9.
personal data
SURNAME Clitus the White
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Κλείτος Λευκός (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Macedonian admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 318 BC Chr.