Black Kleitos and his relatives

Although we are reasonably well informed about Kleitos’ family, nothing is recorded about his place of birth or residence. Lanike, his sister, had been Alexander’s nurse: ¹ born c.380, she was apparently still alive in 328 and had at least three sons who served Alexander during the Asiatic expedition. Two of them died at Miletos in 334, while a third son, Proteas—syntrophos and drinking-companion of Alexander—was probably identical with the admiral who defeated Datames at Siphnos. Lanike’s husband, and the father of her three sons, was Andronikos, presumably the son of Agerros. Theodoros, identified merely as a “brother of Proteas” but on intimate terms with Alexander, may also have been Lanike’s son. ²