Balacrus

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 lifetime of Alexander.[2] It was probably this Balacrus who married Phila, the daughter of Antipater, and subsequently the wife of Craterus.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, ii. 12
  2. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xviii. 22
  3. ↑ Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 166

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Balacrus (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 454.

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