| LC control no. | n 2017063626 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Chares, of Mytilene |
| Variant(s) | Carete, di Mitelene Chares, Mytilenaeus |
| Beginning date | -0326 |
| Place of birth | Mytilēnē (Lesbos, Greece) |
| Found in | Carete di Mitilene, 2015: p. vii (Carete, originally from Island of Lesbos, one of many contemporary historians of Alexander who wrote about the person and his campaign in Asia. His work exists in fragments provided by Athenaeus and Plutarch) Oxford classical dictionary, 2003: p. 317-318 (Chares of Mytilene, chamberlain (eisangeleus) of Alexander the Great. His voluminous Histories of Alexander contained rich and romantic detail, notably the experiment with proskynēsis and the mass marriage at Susa. He was used by Plutarch and colourful extracts are provided by Athenaeus but too little is known of his work for its influence to be defined) Brill's New Pauly, ©2003: v. 3, p. 194: (Chares [2]: From Mytilene; at least from 327 BC under Alexander he was entrusted after the Persian manner and with the conduct of audiences, and after Alexander's death wrote a book entitled "Stories of Alexander," in which he recounted anecdotes from life at court and also on campaign, as e.g. the proskynesis dispute, the marriages at Susa, the death of Calanus. He usually emphasizes luxury, feasts and drinking, but the extracts in Athenaeus also offer items of natural history ... He is to be regarded as an anecdotalist, not a historian) LC database, Oct. 23, 2017: (hdg.: Chares, of Mytilene) OCLC, Oct. 23, 2017: (hdg.: Chares, Mytilenaeus) |
| Associated language | grc |
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