Crateuas (Ancient Greek: Κρατεύας, modern Kratevas), also called Craterus (Ancient Greek: Κρατερός, Krateros), was according to some ancient sources the lover, and killer, of Archelaus I of Macedon, whom he killed to become a king himself.[1][2] According to another version, Crateuas killed the king because Archelaus had promised to give him one of his daughters in marriage, but later gave her to someone else.[3] A third version asserts that Archelaus was unintentionally struck by Crateuas during a hunt.[4] Modern historians view the idea that Crateuas actually reigned as king of Macedon to be "obviously absurd".[5]
Notes
edit- ^ Pseudo-Plato, Alcibiades II, 141d
- ^ Aristotle, Politics, V, 10 (1311b).
- ^ Aelian, Varia historia, VIII, 9.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library, XIV, 37, 6.
- ^ Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière; Griffith, Guy Thompson (1972). A History of Macedonia: 550-336 B.C. Clarendon Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-19-814814-2.