Balacrus
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Balacrus (Greek: Bάλακρoς), the son of Nicanor, one of Alexander the Great's "Somatophylakes" (bodyguards), was appointed satrap of Cilicia after the battle of Issus, 333 BC.[1] He fell in battle against the Pisidians in the life-time of Alexander.[2] It was probably this Balacrus who married Phila, the daughter of Antipater, and subsequently the wife of Craterus.[3]
[edit] References
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Balacrus (1)", Boston, (1867)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, ii. 12
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xviii. 22
- ^ Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 166
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
