Atarrhias
Ancient Macedonian general
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Atarrhias (Ancient Greek: Ἀταῤῥίας) (or Tarrhias according to Plutarch), son of Deinomenes, was a man of ancient Macedonia mentioned several times by the historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, with a slight variation in the orthography of the name, in the wars of Alexander the Great.[1][2]
He was a hypaspist, and commanded other hypaspists, being described as the foremost hypaspist officer after Neoptolemus. He served with distinction at Halicarnassus.[3][4] He was a leading voice in the argument to execute Alexander of Lyncestis.[4]
He could have been the same Atarrhias as the one who was sent by Cassander with a part of the army to oppose Aeacides, king of Epirus, in 317 BCE.[5]
He is described as a "rougher and tougher" sort of character than Alexander's other generals, and Alexander considered him undisciplined.[6][4] We know that by the end of the Macedonian campaign he was heavily in debt, so much so that he attempted to defraud Alexander in a scheme involving veterans funds. Nothing further is known of him.[4]
