Nearchus

Nearchus Cretensis,Androtimi ex urbeLatone Cretaefilius sedAmphipoleosincola, fuit praefectus earumAlexandri Macedonisnavium quae ab ostiisIndiad ostiaEuphratisvectae sunt et auctor operis hodie deperditi de hac navigatione.

Nearchus innuptiis Macedonum et Persarumanno324 a.C.n.filiamMentoriset Barsinae (nomine hodie ignoto) duxit. Inconvivio Alexandri Magni novissimoanno323 a.C.n.interfuit. Quo mortuo NearchusHeraclemut successorem regni proposuit, frustra. Fuit postea sectator praecipueAntigoni;iussu Antigoni,Demetrio Poliorcetaeadfuit anno312 a.C.n.inproelio iuxta Gazam commisso.Annis insequentibus nihil scitur de rebus gestis Nearchi.

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Fontes de vita Nearchi

Arrianus,Anabasis Alexandri3.6.5-6, 4.7.2, 4.30.5-6, 6.2.3, 6.5.4-5, 6.19.5, 7.4.6, 7.5.6, 7.19.3, 7.25.4
Arrianus,Indica18.3 et passim
Q. Curtius Rufus,Historiae9.10.3, 10.1.10-16, 10.6.10-12
Diodorus Siculus,Bibliotheca historica17.104.3, 17.112.3-4, 19.19.4-5, 19.69.1
Iustinus,Epitome historiarum Pompei Trogi13.4.14-15
Plutarchus,"Vita Alexandri"10, 66, 73-76
Plutarchus,"Vita Eumenis"2, 18
Strabo,Geographica15.2.4 et alibi
Vita Alexandri Macedonis(Pseudo-Callisthenes, recensio A) 3.31.8
"Liber de morte Alexandri Magni"(Epitome Mettensis) 97
Sudas.v. Nearchos
Polyaenus,Strategemata5.35
W. Dittenberger,Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum(2 partes. Lipsiae: Hirzel, 1883) no. 266

Bibliographia

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Felix Jacoby,Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker(Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1923- ) no. 133.Kommentar (1930) pp. 445-468
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W. Tomaschek,Topographische Erlâuterung der Küstenfahrt Nearchs vom Indus bis zum Euphrat(Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Kl.vol. 121 no. 8). Vindobonae, 1890 (TextusapudGoogle Books)