Gorgias (officer)

Gorgias ( Greek  Γοργίας ) was a Macedonian officer and companion ( hetairos ) of Alexander the great in the 4th century BC.

During the Asian campaign , Gorgias is first mentioned in 328 BC. In Sogdia as taxiarchos of a battalion of the pezhetairoi , in the fight against Spitamenes . He had presumably had this command since 330 BC. As a successor to the Krateros . After crossing the Hindu Kush to India , he and his battalion belonged to the advance command of Hephaistion and Perdiccas , which first reached the Indus . In the battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC BC he occupied the west bank of the river together with the departments of Meleager and Attalus and was therefore not involved in the fight that was fought on the east bank. In 324 BC Gorgias was released in Opis with the other veterans under the leadership of the Krateros in the Macedonian homeland. After that he is no longer mentioned.

See also

• Army of Alexander the Great

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 4, 16, 1.
2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 4, 22, 7.
3. ^ Arrian, Anabasis 5, 12, 1.
4. Jump up ↑ Justin 12:12 , 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. 127.