Granikos Monument = Alexander's Squadron

Bronze monument commemorating battle with Persians of 334 B.C. at Granikos River in northwest Turkey; monument was originally at Dion in Macedonia, and was moved to Campus Martius, Rome Stewart, T124: Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.64 (64) He (Lysippos)...made...Alexander's Squadron, in which he rendered the portraits of his friends with the highest degree of likeness possible in every case. J.J. Pollitt, Art of Greece (1965) p. 146: Arrian, Anabasis 1.16.4 (2nd century A.D. work) Of the Macedonians, twenty-five of the "Companions" died in the first assault, and bronze portraits of them stood in Dion [in Macedonia], made by Lysippos at the command of Alexander. Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome 1.11.3-4 (work of early 1st century A.D.) This is the Metellus Macedonicus who had previously built the portico about the two temples (of Jupiter Stator and Juno Regina in the Campus Martius, Rome) without inscriptions which are now surrounded by the portico of Octavia, and who brought from Macedonia the group of equestrian statues which stand facing the temples, and, even at the present time, are the chief ornament of the place. Tradition hands down the following story of the origin of the group: that Alexander the Great prevailed upon Lysippus, a sculptor unexcelled in works of this sort, to make portrait-statues of the horsemen in his own squadron who had fallen at the river Granicus, and to place his own statue among them.