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PATROCLES (c. 312–261 B.C.)

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PATROCLES (c. 312–261 B.C.) , a Macedonian See also:general and writer on See also:geographical subjects, who lived during the reigns of Seleucus I. and See also:Antiochus I. When in command of the See also:fleet of Seleucus (285) he undertook a voyage of exploration on the See also:Caspian See also:Sea to discover possible See also:trade routes, especially for communication with the peoples of See also:northern See also:India. He came to the conclusion that the Caspian was a gulf or inlet, and that it was possible to enter it by sea from the See also:Indian Ocean. The only See also:information as to his See also:work (even the See also:title is unknown) is derived from See also:Strabo. After the See also:death of Seleucus, Patrocles was sent by his successor Antiochus to put down a revolt in See also:Asia See also:Minor, and lost his See also:life in an engagement with the Bithynians. See Strabo ii. 68, 74, xi. 508, xv. 689; Diod. Sic. xix. Too; See also:Plutarch, See also:Demetrius, 47; See also:Pliny, Nat.

Hist. vi. 21; See also:

Photius, See also:cod. 224 (on See also:Memnon) ; C. W. See also:Muller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, ii. 442; E. H. See also:Banbury, Hist. of See also:Ancient See also:Geography, vol. i. (1879); W. W. See also:Tarn, " Patrocles and the Oxo-Caspian Trade Route " in See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xxi. (1901).

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