Atarrhias (Ancient Greek: Ἀταῤῥίας) (or Tarrhias according to Plutarch), son of Deinomenes, was a man of ancient Macedonia mentioned several times by the historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, with a slight variation in the orthography of the name, in the wars of Alexander the Great.[1][2]
He was a hypaspist, and commanded other hypaspists, being described as the foremost hypaspist officer after Neoptolemus. He served with distinction at Halicarnassus.[3][4] He was a leading voice in the argument to execute Alexander of Lyncestis.[4]
He could have been the same Atarrhias as the one who was sent by Cassander with a part of the army to oppose Aeacides, king of Epirus, in 317 BCE.[5]
He is described as a "rougher and tougher" sort of character than Alexander's other generals, and Alexander considered him undisciplined.[6][4] We know that by the end of the Macedonian campaign he was heavily in debt, so much so that he attempted to defraud Alexander in a scheme involving veterans funds. Nothing further is known of him.[4]
References
edit- ^ Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great 5.2, 7.1, viii 1
- ^ Heckel, Waldemar (2005). The Marshals of Alexander's Empire. Taylor & Francis. p. 247. ISBN 9781134942657. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ Heckel, Waldemar (2016). Alexander's Marshals: A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317389217. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ a b c d Heckel, Waldemar, ed. (2008). "Atarrhias". Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. p. 60. ISBN 9781405154697. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 19.36
- ^ Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière; Walbank, Frank William (1972). A History of Macedonia: 336-167 B.C. Clarendon Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-19-814815-9. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Atarrhias". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 391.