Charidemus

Charidemus (Greek Χαρίδημος; † 333 BC ) was a military leader and politician in the 4th century BC

Charidemus was a mercenary leader of Oreos. He was brother in law and military leader of the Thracian king Kersebleptes. After conflicts with Athens in East Thrace an alliance between Kersebleptes and Athens was closed. Charidemus received Athenian citizenship and numerous honors. That same year was the king of Macedonia Kersebleptes who was beaten and had to conclude an alliance with Macedonia. Probably for dissatisfaction with this defeat dismissed Kersebleptes Charidemus as military chief, whereupon he voted in Athens for the strategists and BC received a command troops on the Chersonese in the autumn of 351. In the aftermath Charidemus was more often elected to the College strategists and represented an anti-Macedonian course. In 335 BC Alexander the Great called after the revolt of Thebes and Athens sponsored by A. the delivery Charidemus '. Then he contented himself with the banishment of Charidemus, the Persian king Darius III for. fled. As Charidemus to the war preparations of the Persian monarch for the battle of Issus too outspoken criticism practiced, Darius had strangle him in a fit of rage 333 BC.