Chares, of Mytilene, was a Greek belonging to the suite of Alexander the Great. He was appointed court-marshal or introducer of strangers to the king, an office borrowed from the Persian court. He wrote a history of Alexander in ten books, dealing mainly with the private life of the king. The fragments are chiefly preserved in Athenaeus. See Scriptores Rerum Alexandri (pp. 114-120) in the Didot edition of Arrian. Mytilene (Mitilini in Greek) is the capital city of Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. ... Bust of Alexander III in the British Museum. ... Persian art is conscious of a great past, and monumental in many respects. ... Athenaeus (ca. ... Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon (c 92-c 175), known in English as Arrian, was a Roman historian. ...

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