Career
Foreign other persons with the same name, see Aristonous
On the death of Alexander, he was one of the first to propose that the supreme power should be entrusted to Perdiccas. He was subsequently Olympias" general in the war with Cassander. And when Olympias was taken prisoner in 316 British Columbia, he was put to death by order of Cassander.
Aristonous is described as of both Pellaean (Arrian, Anabasis 6284) and Eordaean in origin (Arrian, Indica 185), which would mean that he was from Eordaea but raised at the court in Pella.
According to Plutarch, a certain somatophylax, Aristophanes, took away Alexander"s sword when he was quarrelling with Cleitus the Black, but this reference seems to be confused with Aristonous.
