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CHARES, of Mytilene, a Greek belonging to the suite of Alexander the Great, to whom he was appointed court-marshal. He wrote a history of Alexander in ten books, dealing mainly with the private life of the king. The fragments are chiefly preserved in Athenaeus.

See Scriptores Rerum Alexandri (pp. in the Didot edition of Arrian.