Asklepiodorus (Satrap)

Asklepiodorus († after 326 BC), son of Eunicus, was a soldier and governor of Alexander the Great .

He was probably from Pella , his son Antipater was a page from Alexander. It was first mentioned in 331 BC. When he brought 500 Thracian mounted men to the army of Alexander in Memphis , Egypt . In the late summer of the same year Asklepiodorus was appointed satrap of Syria . It is unclear whether he only took over the "upper Syria" as the successor of a certain "Arimmas" or also the "lower Syria" ( Coelesyria ) as the successor of Menon, son of Kerdimmas . In 329 BC He was deposed from his office and led 4,000 infantrymen and 500 cavalrymen to the main army in Zaraspa ( Sogdia ). It is unclear who replaced him as satrap in Syria, possibly Menes , who had been there since 331 BC. BC as hyparchos of the Syrian coastal lands had officiated.

In the spring of 327 BC Asklepiodorus' son was involved in the page conspiracy against Alexander; he was tortured and executed. For Asklepiodorus himself, the fall of his son did not seem to have had any consequences, in the year 326 BC. He is named as one of the Trierarchs of the Indus fleet.

After that, he will not be reported on. To what extent he could have been identical with that Asklepiodorus, who died in 316 BC. Chr. Antigonus Monophthalmos was appointed satrap of Persis as successor of Peukestas , can not be established.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 4.13.4; Curtius Rufus 8.6.9.
2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 3.6.8.
3. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 4.7.2; Curtius Rufus 10/7/12.
4. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 4.13.7; Curtius Rufus 8/8/20.
5. ↑ Arrian, Index 18.3.

literature

• Albert B. Bosworth: The Government of Syria under Alexander the Great. In: The Classical Quarterly . New Series Vol. 24, No. 1, 1974, pp. 46-64, JSTOR 638226 .