King of [the] Molossians.[1] But also another [homonym was] a subordinate-general of Alexander.[2]
*)alke/tas, *molottw=n basileu/s. a)lla\ kai\ u(postra/thgos a)/llos *)aleca/ndrou.
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., an entry generated by the mention of this individual in
Isaeus fr. 93 Sauppe. Also in
Photius.
[1] A prominent tribe in Epeiros (NW Greece). For King Alketas (first half of the fourth century BCE) see N.G.L. Hammond and G.T. Griffith,
A History of Macedonia vol.2 (Oxford 1979) index s.v.
[2] See
Diodorus Siculus 18.29ff, esp. 44-47; W. Heckel,
The Marshals of Alexander's Empire (London and New York 1992) 171-175. The term "subordinate-general",
u(postra/thgos, erroneously reappears in
iota 580 as
i(ppostra/thgos, "horse-general".
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