Editing Nearchus (section)

==Early life==
A native of [[Lato]]<ref>Who's who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire By Waldemar Heckel Page 171 {{ISBN|1-4051-1210-7}}</ref> in [[Crete]] and son of Androtimus,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/ne-nn/nearchus/nearchus.html |title=Livius history |access-date=2020-03-26 |archive-date=2015-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108092609/http://www.livius.org/ne-nn/nearchus/nearchus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> his family settled at [[Amphipolis]] in [[Ancient Macedonia|Macedonia]] at some point during [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II's]] reign (we must assume after Philip took the city in 357 BC), at which point Nearchus was probably a young boy. He was almost certainly older than Alexander, as were [[Ptolemy I|Ptolemy]], [[Erigyius]], and the others of the ‘boyhood friends’;<ref>Heckel, "Marshals" p.228</ref> so depending on when Androtimus came to Macedonia Nearchus was quite possibly born in Crete. Nearchus, along with [[Ptolemy I Soter|Ptolemy]], [[Erigyius]] and [[Laomedon of Mytilene|Laomedon]], and [[Harpalus]], was one of Alexander's ‘mentors’ – and he was exiled by Philip as a result of the [[Pixodarus of Caria|Pixodarus]] affair (A 3.6.5; P 10.3). It is not known where the exiles went, but they were recalled only after Philip's death, on Alexander's accession.