Caranus
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Caranus is the name of:
- Caranus (king), legendary progenitor of the royal house of Macedon
- Caranus (son of Philip II)
- Caranus (hetairos) of Alexander the Great
- Caranus probably a relative of the foregoing, whose wedding feast was described in a letter by HippolochusHippolochusHippolochus was a Macedonian writer, a student of Theophrastus, who addressed to his fellow-student Lynceus of Samos a description of a wedding feast in Macedon in the early 3rd century BC. The bridegroom was a certain Caranus, probably a relative of the Caranus who had been a companion of...