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Sostratus of Macedon

Macedonian noble

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ7563928 ↗
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Sostratus (Ancient Greek: Σώστρατος, Sostratos), son of Amyntas, was an aristocratic Macedonian youth who served Alexander the Great.

Sostratus was implicated in the conspiracy of the pages against Alexander. As a result, he was executed by stoning with his lover Hermolaus.

References

Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sostratus of Macedon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.