ABSTRACT
In 331, the last attested member of the house of Attalos died on the battlefield of Gaugamela, though the family continued to play a role in Alexander historiography. Hegelochos son of Hippostratos was perhaps the most important Makedonian to die in that battle, and yet the fact of his death was recorded only in passing, in a different context, and not noted in accounts of the battle itself. 1 Nevertheless, the names of both Attalos and Hegelochos resurface in the drama of the following years, when the political tensions at the Court and in the camp revealed once again the implacable hatred of Alexander for Attalos in particular. In spite of the family’s impact on the political and military events of the 330s, its history must be pieced together from scattered references and with a fair amount of conjecture.
