Proteas (son of Andronikos)

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Proteas ( Greek  Πρωτέας ), son of Andronikos and Lanike, was a Macedonian naval officer of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

His mother was the wet nurse of Alexander the Great and the sister of the cavalry officer Kleitos the Black . Furthermore Proteas had two brothers, both 334 BC. Before Halicarnassus fell. Proteas himself was a childhood friend (syntrophos) of Alexander, but he stayed in 334 BC. BC in Macedonia when the king began the Asian campaign . He was then appointed by the administrator Antipater to command a fleet of 15 ships with which he was supposed to sail against the threat from the Persian fleet in the Aegean Sea . From Chalkis he first sailed to Kythnos , but then turned to Siphnos , where he attacked a Persian squadron of ten ships and sank eight of them. In 332 BC Proteas traveled with a Pentecontere from Macedonia to Sidon and joined the army there. Presumably he carried news of the activities of Sparta against Macedonia ( mouse war ).

His personal position on the murder of his uncle Kleitos in 328 BC. Chr. Is not passed down, but Proteas seems to have bothered little, because several authors describe him as one of Alexander's closest drinking friends. In spite of all this, the historian Ephippus did him a poetic justice by explaining the fatal illness of Alexander in Babylon from a drinking competition with Proteas. To what extent this description by the Alexander-critical author corresponds to the historical truth is difficult to determine, it represents only one of several conjectures about the death of the king.

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SURNAME Proteas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Naval officer of Alexander the Great
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 323 BC Chr.