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  Philotas
The most important appointment, however, was that of his oldest son Philotas: he was the commander of the Companion cavalry, a unit of eight squadrons (of 225 horsemen each) that was Macedonia's most effective weapon in any battle.
Together with his king, he led the cavalry charge at the Granicus river (June 334), he prevented the Persian navy from finding a safe anchorage during the siege of Miletus (Summer 334), and was present at the beginning of the siege of Halicarnassus.
When he had been killed, half of Philotas' regiment went to western Hyrcania; it is not clear whether their commander was with them.
www.livius.org /phi-php/philotas/philotas.htm   (1225 words)

  
  Philotas Affair - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philotas may have either promised that he would pass on the intelligence to Alexander, or didn't consider the conspiracy to be valid; in either case he did nothing for three days (despite entering Alexander's tent twice a day, and despite Cebalinus' repeated urgings).
Philotas dined with Alexander that night; but after the feast the hypaspists tore through the camp, arresting all those implicated in the conspiracy...
Hephaestion, Craterus and Coenus (Philotas’ brother-in-law!) then persuaded Alexander that Philotas should be tortured; during the torture he gave a full confession, including 'confirmation' that Parmenion was involved in the conspiracy — although, from Curtius’ account, it wasn't a true confession, but merely given to put an end to the torture.
www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Philotas_Affair   (1557 words)

  
 pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philotas is, in many respects, one of the most controversial players in the Alexander ‘saga’: a successful cavalry commander, often thought of as being one of Alexander’s close friends, who is suddenly accused of taking part in a conspiracy on the king’s life that leads to his, and his father’s, executions.
Philotas had two brothers that we know of, Nicanor and Hector, and at least one sister, who was married to one of the other commanders.
Philotas was unpopular with the other commanders in the army — in particular with Craterus, who usually took overall command of the Macedonian infantry battalions and who had proved himself in various other engagements.
www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=104   (899 words)

  
 Philotas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philotas was never able to penetrate Alexander's inner circle.
One day in camp Philotas heard a second or third hand story of a plot by the royal pages to slay Alexander.
Philotas neither said nor did anything at this news.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philotas   (285 words)

  
 ALEXANDER'S PATRIUS SERMO IN THE PHILOTAS AFFAIR
Of course, the Philotas affair went through a trial paraphernalia in contrast to the episode involving Kleitos, and this may explain in part Curtius' longer account of the Philotas affair, but at the same time the trial scene provided ample room for dramatization and invention.
This is, of course, arbitrary inference, as Philotas, too, does not indicate in what language Alexander addressed him, although from the context neither of them was speaking in the patrius sermo of therein.
However, at least to this writer, it is not clear what Philotas, or whoever put that complex sentence into his mouth, had in mind, even though it comes as an epilogue to the preceding nativus sermo (nativus sermo<>peregrina lingua).
www.history.ccsu.edu /elias/AlexandrosPatrius.htm   (4798 words)

  
 Philotas/Parmenio Affair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The next day Cebalinus was there when Philotas came to the royal quarters and, as he went in, he reminded him of the matter he had communicated to him the day before.
Philotas replied that he was seeing to it--but even then he failed to disclose to the king what he had heard.
He offered Philotas his right hand as a sign of reconciliation, and said that in his opinion it was a case of information not being taken seriously rather than being deliberately suppressed.
luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/aa/source19.htm   (2356 words)

  
 Philotas Procrastinates!
this is Philotas, also known as SAM (Some Aussie Maniac)!
I have themes buzzing around in my head and I have an idea of the overall structure of the work.
Reading Mike's website gave me an idea for more procrastination, so I humbly present to you my personality type as defined by the Jung test
philotas.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_philotas_archive.html   (3821 words)

  
 Philotas Procrastinates!
If I were to die, and have the chance to tell everyone one last thing it would be this:
Im taking a break out of the hecticness of working on what appears to be a 3000 word History assignment (I have concluded it's actually a giant flesh-eating monster with tentacles of fire and a hideous beaked maw just POSING as an assignment to try to eat me. but dont worry.
You are the first Human Being, the first Visitor from planet Earth to set foot on mars.
philotas.blogspot.com   (2481 words)

  
 Cry me a river ;;; Official Alexander&Philotas Fanlist
Alexander and Philotas are two of the principal characters of "Alexander Senki", a Japan/Korea anime collaboration based on the real character of Alexander the Great, Macedonia's emperor.
The relation between this two character in complicated, but they truly care for each other, and when Philotas die...
1) You have to be a fan of Alexander and Philotas (friendship or love) relationship (else, why should you join???).
www.lisasblog.altervista.org /alexxphilo   (324 words)

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