Agathon (son of Tyrimmas)

Agathon ( Greek  Ἀγάθων ; † 324 BC in Karmana ), son of Tyrimmas, was a Macedonian equestrian officer of Alexander the great in the 4th century BC.

During the Asian campaign , Agathon was the commander of the Odrysian cavalry ( Thracians ) and was defeated in the battles of Granikos in 334 BC. Chr. And v Gaugamela 331st Chr. Named. In 330 BC He and his troops were assigned to the staff of Parmenion in Ekbatana . Together with officers Kleandros , Sitalkes and Herakon , he murdered Parmenion that same year on Alexander's instructions. All four officers led a regiment of terror in Ekbatana in the years that followed, harassing the local population and enriching themselves. When Alexander returned from India unexpectedly, they were discovered in 324 BC. Ordered to Karmana , where they were condemned and executed by the army assembly for their crimes.

swell

• Arrian , Anabasis 1, 14, 3; 3, 12, 4 and 19, 7; 6, 27, 3-4.
• Curtius Rufus 10, 1, 1-8.

literature

• Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire . Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 , p. 7.
• Julius Kaerst : Agathon 7) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 760.