Alexandros (son of Achaios)

Alexandros ( Greek Ἀλέξανδρος ), son of Achaios, was a governor in the Seleucid Empire of the 3rd century BC.

As the brother of Laodike I , Alexandros was a son of Achaios the Elder and through him perhaps connected to the Seleucid dynasty. Apparently Alexandros had already served under Antiochus I (281–261 BC), provided that he is identical with the person of the same name who was appointed by the king as governor ( satrap ) in Lydia at an unknown time .

During the fratricidal war of his nephews King Seleukos II and Antiochus Hierax , Alexandros had sided with the latter and made his residence town Sardis available as a base for him. His brother Andromachos and his son, the younger Achaios , had fought for the king.

literature

Richard A. Billows: Kings and Colonists: Aspects of Macedonian Imperialism (1995), pp. 97-98.
John D. Grainger: A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer (1997), p. 75.

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b Eusebius of Caesarea 1:251; Porphyrios , FGrHist. 260 F32.
↑ To be taken from an inscription discovered in Bargylia ; see Wilhelm Dittenberger : Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum , 3rd edition, 1915–1924, no. 426.

personal data
SURNAME	Alexandros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ἀλέξανδρος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Governor of the Seleucid Empire
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	3rd century BC Chr.

[Hierax-1] Eusebius of Caesarea 1:251; Porphyrios , FGrHist. 260 F32.

[2] To be taken from an inscription discovered in Bargylia ; see Wilhelm Dittenberger : Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum , 3rd edition, 1915–1924, no. 426.