Balakros (son of Amyntas)

Balakros ( Greek Βάλακρος ), son of Amyntas, was a Macedonian infantry officer of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

During the Asian campaign , Balakros was in 333 BC. In Kelainai as strategos of the Greek federal troops ( Corinthian League ), as successor to Antigonos Monophthalmos , who was appointed governor . He led this troop in the Battle of Issus in 333 BC. And during the sieges of Tire and Gaza in 332 BC. Chr . In the spring of 331 BC In BC Balakros was left behind in Egypt together with Peukestas as strategos of the occupying troops , from then on he is not mentioned any further.

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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. 68.

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SURNAME	Balacros
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Officer of Alexander the Great
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 331 BC Chr.