Balacrus

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Balacrus (in Greek Bαλακρoς), the son of Nicanor, one of Alexander the Great's body-guard, 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

References

• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, ["Balacrus (1)"], Boston, (1867)

Notes

¹ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, [ii. 12]

² Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xviii. 22

³ Photius, Bibliotheca, [cod. 166]

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).

 

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