Betrayed Alketas

Alketas was one of the chiefs of Alexander the Great, who hid in Alexander's successor, Single -eyed antigon. We don't know, On what background is a conflict between two generals, But it was probably about the division of the Empire after the death of the ruler of Alketas was supported by younger inhabitants of the city, First of all, the Officers of the Termessian army, However, the city council, consisting mainly of seniors. When Antigone at the head of the Great Army stood under the city walls, terrified elders, Contrary to the holy principles of hospitality, sent a secret letter to the enemy, in which she undertook to give up without the fight of a young Macedonian, live or dead. Alketas guessed betrayal, Because his supporters became insidiously expelled from the city one night. Wanting to save honor, He committed suicide, And the satisfied council sent his corpse to Antigone. At the same time, young officers returned to the city and took control of it, what enraged Antigone, who, despite his success, wanted to get the city. Taught by Alexander's experience he knew, that as long as the soldiers come out from outside the walls, His efforts will be in vain. Therefore, he decided to provoke them for this: Over the next three days, the corpses of Alketas were issued at the sight of the inhabitants of Termessos, In an unbelievable way, inaccessible with the hope of a desire to revenge on the part of relatives. But reason won and Antigone had to abandon the siege; marched into the unknown, leaving a dead leader on a nearby hill. Proponents of Alketas buried him with great honors in a beautiful tomb near the city.