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Alcetas

400 BC - 319 BC

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Alcetas (Greek Ἀλκέτας; died 320 BC), was the brother of Perdiccas and the son of Orontes from Orestis. He is first mentioned as one of Alexander the Great's generals in his Indian expedition.On the death of Alexander, Alcetas was a strong supporter of his brother Perdiccas. At Perdiccas' orders, in 323 BC Alcetas murdered Cynane, the half-sister of Alexander the Great, as she wished to marry off her daughter Eurydice to Philip Arrhidaeus, the nominal king of Macedon.At the time of Perdiccas' murder by his own troops in Egypt in 321 BC, Alcetas was with Eumenes in Asia Minor engaged against Craterus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alcetas has received more than 46,748 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alcetas is the 9,515th most popular politician (up from 9,993rd in 2019).

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  • 17

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alcetas ranks 9,515 out of 15,577Before him are Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Brian Mulroney, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Giru of Baekje, Hugo von Pohl, and Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia. After him are Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Regina Jonas, Petro Shelest, Bjarni Benediktsson, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, and Black Hawk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Alcetas ranks 70Before him are Archidamus IV, Antipater Etesias, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Timotheus, Cleomenes of Naucratis, and Gaius Licinius Stolo. After him are Philitas of Cos, Aeneas Tacticus, Cephisodotus the Younger, Philinna, Neoptolemus, and Agathocles. Among people deceased in 319 BC, Alcetas ranks 2Before him is Antipater.

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