Chares
Χάρης
(Χάρης) of Mytilene, an officer at the court of Alexander the Great, whose duty it was to introduce strangers to the king (εἰσαγγελεύς).
Works
Anecdotes Concerning the Campaigns and the Private Life of Alexander (περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἱστοριαί)
Chares wrote a history or rather a collection of anecdotes concerning the campaigns and the private life of Alexander (περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἱστοριαί) in ten books.
Editions
Fragments of this work are preserved by Athenaeus (i. p. 27d., iii. p. 93c., p. 124c., iv. p. 171b., vii. p. 277a,, x. p. 434d., 436, f., xii. p. 513f., 514, f., 538, b., xiii. p. 575), by Plutarch (Plut. Alex. 20, 24, 46, 54, 55, 70, de Fort. Alex. 2.9). He is also quoted by Pliny (H. N. xii. xiii. table of contents, 37.2) and A. Gellius (5.2).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.