Corinth Crater
Krateros of Corinth ( Greek Κρατερός ; * before 320 BC; † around 263 BC) was a Macedonian general and governor in Greece during the Hellenistic Age .
He was a son of the general Krateros († 320 BC), who was a famous companion of Alexander the great . His mother was Phila , the daughter of Antipater . Krateros was in the service of his stepfather Demetrios Poliorketes and then with his younger half-brother Antigonos Gonatas . From the latter he became around the year 280/79 BC. Chr. Used as governor in Greece, with the main residence in Corinth . The powers conferred on him extended beyond those of an ordinary governor and were more likely to have corresponded to a regionally limited co-regency in the position of viceroy. Antigonos Gonatas was able to assert his power in the Peloponnese via the Isthmos , which was controllable from Corinth .
Krateros took 272 BC. In the campaign against Pyrrhus . He died around 263 BC. BC, probably in the battles of the Chremonic War . Successor in office was his son Alexandros , his wife was called Nikaia.
Krateros was probably also active as a writer, as being the " Krateros the Macedonian a collection of folk decisions of the City" author called Athens ( ψηφισμάτων συναγωγή ) is identical, which is composed of at least nine books, but received only fragmentary.
literature
- Ernst Badian : Krateros [2]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 809.
- Hermann Bengtson : The strategy in the Hellenistic period . Vol. 2. Beck, Munich 1944.
- W. Spoerri: Krateros 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 326 f.
Individual proof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corinth Crater |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krateros (short name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Macedonian governor of Corinth |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: before 320 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 263 BC Chr. |