What is "caranus"

Caranus (Greek Karanos) is the name of:

1. Caranus (king), legendary progenitor of the royal house of Macedon
2. Caranus (son of Philip II)
3. Caranus (hetairos) of Alexander the Great
4. Caranus probably a relative of the foregoing, whose wedding feast was described in a letter by Hippolochus

Karanos is a village in Crete, in the Chania regional unit

Caranus ( Greek: ; died 329 BC), a Macedonian of the body called hetairoi ( Greek:ἑταῖροι) , was one of the generals sent by Alexander the Great against Satibarzanes when he had a second time excited Aria to revolt. Caranus and his colleagues were successful, and Satibarzanes was defeated and slain, in the winter of 330 BC. In 329 BC, Caranus was appointed, together with Andromachus and Menedemus, under the command of the Lycian Pharnuches, to act against Spitamenes, the revolted satrap of Sogdiana. Their approach compelled him to raise the siege of Maracanda; but, in a battle which ensued, he defeated them with the help of a body of Scythian cavalry, and forced them to fall back on the river Polytimetus, the wooded banks of which promised shelter. The rashness however or cowardice of Caranus led him to attempt the passage of the river with the cavalry under his command, and the rest of the troops plunging in after him in haste and disorder, they were all destroyed by the enemy.

Caranus ( Greek: ) was a rumoured son of Philip and Cleopatra Eurydice; a half-brother of Alexander the Great. Alexander's mother Olympias sought to remove any rivals to the throne and protect her son's place. Cleopatra Eurydice bore Philip a female child, Europa, a few days before his death. A rumoured son, Caranas, has not been confirmed. Soon after Alexander's accession in 336 B.C., Plutarch reports that, after witnessing the death of her child, Europa, Olympias forced Cleopatra Euryidice to commit suicide.