Atarrhias

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.

He was a hypaspist, and commanded other hypaspists, being described as the foremost hypaspist officer after Neoptolemus. He served with distinction at Halicarnassus. He was a leading voice in the argument to execute Alexander of Lyncestis.

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.

He is described as a "rougher and tougher" sort of character than Alexander's other generals, and Alexander considered him undisciplined. 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.

References

  1. ↑ Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great 5.2, 7.1, viii 1
  2. ↑ Heckel, Waldemar (2005). The Marshals of Alexander's Empire. Taylor & Francis. p. 247. ISBN 9781134942657. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 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.
  5. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 19.36
  6. ↑ 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.