TY - JOUR
TI - How Many Companions did Philip II have?
AU - Rzepka, Jacek
TI - How Many Companions did Philip II have?
AB - This paper deals with a famous passage by Theopompus concerning the hetairoi of Philip II. Athenaeus, one of the three authors who transmitted this fragment to us, states that Philip had 800 hetairoi in 339, which seems to be too low a number for the last years of the reign. In search of a solution which would match Athenaeus’ quotation from Theopompus with other data about Macedonian cavalry under Philip and Alexander, I consider a textual corruption in Athenaeus.
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 19
PY - 2013
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 131
EP - 135
DO - 10.4467/20800009EL.12.007.0748
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/how-many-companions-did-philip-ii-have
KW - Theopompus
KW - Athenaeus
KW - Philip II of Macedon
KW - Alexander the Great
KW - hetairoi