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4. Cf. Heckel 2003: 214.
5. Arr. Anab. 4.13–14; Curt. 8.6.7–8.21; Plut. Alex. 55; Just. 12.7.1–3.
Cf. Heckel 2008: 107–11; 2006: 138–39; 2003: 223–24; 1992: 292–93;
Müller 2003: 155–65; Hammond 1997: 155–58; Badian 2000: 70–72; Bosworth
1996: 112–14; 1988: 117–18; Lock 1977: 101–03; Hatzopoulos
1994: 97–98; Carney 1980: 223–31; Berve 1926: no. 305, 152–53. A brief
treatment by Cartledge 2004: 73.
6. Arr. Anab. 4.13.2; Curt. 8.7.2. On Sopolis and his position as Ilarch
cf. Arr. Anab. 3.11.8.
7. In scholarship, he and his comrades are usually called “pages,”
whereas the ancient sources call them basilikoi paides, paides, nobiles
pueri, or regii pueri. Elizabeth Carney criticizes the anachronistic use of
the medieval term “pages” for this group and proposes the term royal
youths. Cf. Carney 1980: 227. Arr. Anab. 4.13.1 speaks of their passing
from adolescence to manhood and it is widely assumed that they were not
little boys anymore but were somewhere after the beginning of puberty
and before the coming of military age. Cf. Bosworth 1980–95: ii, 91. Seyer
2007: 78 suggests that they were about fourteen when they began their
duty. Carney 1980: 228 assumes that they were in their mid to late teens.
8. Cf. Heckel 2003: 205–06; 1986a: 281; Hammond 1990: 262–63;
Lock 1977: 103; Ellis 1981b: 45; Carney 1980: 227; Seyer 2007: 78.
9. The conspirators were Hermolaus, his lover Sostratus son of Amyntas,
Antipater son of the Syrian satrap Asclepiodorus, Epimenes son of
Arsaius, Anticles son of Theocritus, and Philotas son of the Thracian Carsis
(Arr. Anab. 4.13.3–4). Curtius adds the names of Nicostratus and Elaptonius
(8.6.9–10). According to Heckel 1992: 295, though, Nicostratus was a
doublet of the name Sostratus. Just. 12.7.2 speaks vaguely of many Macedonian
nobles being executed. Plut. Alex. 55.2 also only speaks of those
who surrounded Hermolaus.
10. Arr. Anab. 4.13.3–4; Curt. 8.6.7–11.
11. Arr. Anab. 4.14.3; Curt. 8.6.28–8.21; Plut. Alex. 55.3–4. Cf. Just.
12.7.2.
12. Curt. 8.7.12: “Persarum te vestis et disciplina delectant, patrios
mores exosus es. Persarum ergo, non Macedonum regem occidere voluimus
. . . ” Translation: J.C. Rolfe.
13. Arr. Anab. 4.14.2–3.
14. Arr. Anab. 4.14.1.
15. Cf. Baynham 1998: 195; Bosworth 1980–95: ii, 90. The circumstances
of his death were obscured even by the contemporary sources and
diffi cult to reconstruct. Cf. Arr. Anab. 4.14.3–4; Curt. 8.8.22–23; Just.
12.7.2; 15.3.4–6; Val. Max. 7.2.ext.11 A; 9.3.ext.1; Plut. Alex. 55.4–5;
Diog. Laert. 5.5. See also Müller 2003: 155–65; Rubinsohn 1993: 1324–27;
Bauman 1990: 145–48; Baynham 1998: 51–52; Golan 1988.