Caranus or Karanos (Greek: Κάρανος, romanized: Káranos) was the son of Philip II and a half-brother of Alexander the Great.
His mother was Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon and so Caranus was an infant at the time of his death.
Cleopatra Eurydice bore Philip also a female child, Europa, shortly before his death in October 336 BC.
[1][2] According to Justin, Alexander III had killed Caranus soon after his accession in 336 BC because he feared him.
[1] Pausanias reports that Olympias was responsible for the deaths of Cleopatra and her children.