Officer
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Peithon (1)
Peithon (c.355-c.314): Macedoniann officer, bodyguard of Alexander the Great, satrap of Media, one of the Diadochi.Peithon was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordia in western Macedonia. He took part in the campaign of Alexander the Great, and is…Peithon (2)
Peithon (d.312): Macedonian officer, appointed as satrap of southern India by Alexander the Great, served after the king's death under Antigonus Monophthalmus.Peithon was the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Agenor and served as an officer in the army of…Perdiccas
Perdiccas (c.360?-320): commander in the army of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, after his death regent of his mentally unfit successor, Philip Arridaeus. He was the first of the Diadochi ("successors").Early Years …
![]() Apadana, Eastern entrance: two guardsmen, dressed as civilians. Their sticks indicate that they are officers. |
Peucestas (1)
Peucestas: Macedonian officer in the army of Alexander the Great, satrap of Persis.Peucestas was born in the Macedonian town Mieza (modern Naousa) as the son of an otherwise unknown Alexander. The stages of his early career are unknown to us and…Phameas
Phameas: Carthaginian cavalry officer during the Third Punic War. Armor of a Carthaginian officer (Ksour es-Saf) In the third century BCE, Rome and Carthage…Philotas
Philotas: Macedonian cavalry officer, executed by Alexander the Great in October 330.Alexander became king of Macedonia in October 336, but he was not the only candidate. One of the rivals, a man named Attalus, was put to death by Parmenion,…Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder or Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79): Roman officer and encyclopedist, author of the Natural History.Youth Portrait of a Roman…Pliny the Elder (2)
Scholar Nero When Pliny returned to Rome in 59, he was thirty-six years old, a reliable officer in search for a new…
![]() Pula, Dedication to T. Settidius |
![]() Relief of a Roman officer |
![]() Cinerary urn of Saturninus, centurio of II Parthica |