Alexander's Thessalian cavalry

[marcus]

Here's an paper in History of the Ancient World.

I think you need to be able to log in to Academia.edu to read it.

Happy Christmas, everyone.

[Paralus]

About to sit down with that Christmas present now as the turkey cooks.

Merry Christmas Marcus.

[Xenophon]

Many Yuletide thanks from me too.....You can in fact read it online, but need to log in to download it successfully.

[Paralus]

I have to say for a bloke who's thesis (The Hellenistic Royal Court. Court Culture, Ceremonial and Ideology in Greece, Egypt and the Near East, 336-30 BCE, 2007) was so meticulously researched and put together, this paper seems struck by a basic error. Strootman argues (p. 63) that Alexander Lyncestis "thanks to a timely acceptance of Alexander’s claims to the kingship and the protection of Parmenion, his father-in-law" saved himself from the fate of his brothers. Antipater was the fellow's father in law rather than Parmenion:

Cutius 7.1.7:
Moreover, the pleas of Lyncestes' father-in-law, Antipater, also served to reduce the king's warranted anger...

Diodorus 17.80.2 (wrongly naming Antigonus):
This was the occasion for bringing up the case of Alexander the Lyncestian. He was charged with the crime of plotting against the king and had been kept for three years under guard. He had been delayed a hearing because of his relationship to Antigonus...

Justin, 11.7.1:
During the course of these proceedings, he was acquainted, on the information of a certain prisoner, that a conspiracy was forming against him by Alexander Lyncestes, the son-in-law of Antipater...

Further, Strootman argues that the Lyncestian's promotion to command of the Thessalian cavalry was due "to Parmenion’s influence too". Thus the Lyncestian's murder may have "been meant primarily to weaken Alexander’s powerful father-inlaw, the leader of the aristocratic opposition against Alexander’s pursuit of autocracy...". Unless there is a marriage I've missed, Alexander Lyncestis' father in law was still Antipater and Parmenion, himself, provided the evidence for his supposed son in law's arrest (Arrian, 1.25 - esp.25.4).