The Persian Boy

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Patroklos
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (11)
Alexandros of Lynkestis – heir to Macedonian throne, executed with
Philotas
Anarxarchos – sophist at Alexander’s court, proposes
prostration
Antikles – squire to Alexander
Antipatros – Macedonian Regent
Ariobarzanes – Governor of Persis
Aristander – chief seer (entrail reader) for Alexander
Aristoboulos – Alexander’s architect
Aristotle – Alexander’s tutor

life & works

Artabazos – Satrap fled to Philip’s Macedon, made Satrap of Aeria
Aristogeiton – with Harmodios, murderers of Hipparchos
Artemares – Bagoas’ father, son of Araxis of the Pasargadai Tribe
Arses – King of Persia after Ochos
Athenodoros – prize-winning actor at Tyre
Atropoates – Satrap of Media
BAGOAS – Eunuch of Darius, Companion to Alexander, Narrator
Bagoas – Eunuch Vizier to Ochos
Bessos – Darius’ cousin, Baktrian Satrap (most powerful in empire)
Boubakes – Darius’ chief household Eunuch
Chares – Alexander’s Macedonian chamberlain
Darius (3) – Darius III, King of Persia after Arses
Datis – gem-stone dealer in Susa, first owner of Bagoas
Doriskos – Greek mercenary fond of Bagoas (possibly son of
Aischenes)
Drypetis – Darius’ daughter, Stateira’s sister, Hephaistion’s wife
Dymnos – soldier central to plot to assassinate Alexander
Epimenes – squire to Alexander, brother of Eurylochos
Eumenes – chief secretary to Philip and to Alexander
Eurylochos – Companion to Alexander, brother of Epimenes
Glaukias – Hephaistion’s physician at Ekbatana
Gobares – Bessos’ vassal turned informer to Alexander
Harmodios – with Aristogeiton, murderers of Hipparchos
Harpalos – Alexander’s childhood friend, treasurer in Bablyon
Hephaistion – Alexander’s lifelong lover
Hermolaos – squire to Alexander, lover of Sostratos
Histanes – son of Oxyartes, commander of Sogdian Rock
Iollas – Kassandros’s brother, Alexander’s cupbearer
Ismenios – Alexander’s bedroom guard after Kleitos’s death,
lover of Bagoas
Kalanos – nickname of a naked Indian philosopher
Kallisthenes – Aristotle’s nephew, Alexander’s
chronicler and librarian
Kassandros – son of the Regent Antipatros
Kebalinos – brother of Nikomachos, reveals assassination plot
Kleitos – co-commander with Hephaistion after Philotas’ death
Koinos – Macedonian General
Krateros – Alexander’s highest ranking General at Baktria, new
Regent
Kritodemos – physician to Alexander
Kyros – Great King of Persia
Leonnatos – Companion to Alexander who laughs at prostration
Mazaios – Satrap of Bablyon, sent to stop Alexander at Arbela
Medios – friend of Alexander’s his final days at Babylon
Menestras – squire to Alexander
Metron – squire to Alexander
Nabarzanes – Commander in Chief of the cavalry
Neshi – Bagoas’ Egyptian slave
Niarchos – Alexander’s Naval Chief
Nikomachos – soldier forced into plot to assassinate Alexander
Obares – first client of Datis who gets to use Bagoas
Ochos – Artaxerxes III, King of Persia, murdered by Bagoas,
succeded by Arses
Olympias (2) – Alexander’s mother, orphaned daughter of Epiros
king description
Omphis – first Indian king encountered, enemy of Poros
Onesikritos – Chief pilot of the Navy
Oromedon – Bagaos’ teacher in etiquette at Susa
Orxines – named by Artemares betrayer of Bagoas’ family
Oxathres – Darius’s brother
Oxyartes – Sogdian chief, father of Roxane
Parmenion – Commander of Alexander’s western armies, father of
Philotas
Patron – commander of the Greek mercenaries under Darius
Perdikkas – Companion of Alexander
Peukestas – Companion to Alexander
Pharneuches – chief interpreter for Alexander
Philip (3) – Alexander’s father, King of Macedon 359-336, description
Philippos – Alexander’s physician
Philostratos – Bagoas’s Greek teacher
Philotas – Parmenion’s son, Alexander’s bodyguard,
heart of assassination plot
Phoinix (1) – nickname for Lysimachos, Philip’s palace-guest,
later tutor to Alexander
Ptolemy – General, Alexander’s half-brother (Philip’s son)
Roxane – Oxyartes’s daughter, Histanes’s sister, Alexander’s
wife
Satibarzanes – Satrap at Baktria
Sisygambis – Queen Mother of Persia (Darius’s mother-in-law)
Sostratos – squire to Alexander, lover of Hermolaos
Spitamenes – one of Bessos’s traitor lords
Stateira – Darius’ duaghter, Alexander’s Persian wife
Straton – soldier Alexander removes arrowhead from, in hospital
with Bagoas
Thais – Ptolemy’s girlfriend from Corinth
Thettalos – actor at Pella (see Mask of Apollo), lost to
Athenodoros at Tyre
Tyriotes – the Queen’s eunuch, sent to announce her death

Animals

Boukephalas – Oxhead, Alexander’s horse
Lion – Bagoas’ horse at Zadrakarta
Oryx – Alexander’s birthday gift horse to Bagoas
Peritas – Alexander’s deerhound
Tiger – Bagoas’ horse at Susa