Laomedon from Mytilene

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Laomedon ( Greek Λαομέδων Laomedōn ), son of Larichos, was a Macedonian general of Alexander the Great .

Laomedon was a native Greek from Mytilene , but received Macedonian citizenship in Amphipolis from King Philip II . In connection with the " Pixodaros Affair " in 336 BC He accompanied Alexander into exile with his brother Erigyios , Nearchus , Ptolemaios and Harpalus and only returned to the court in the same year after the murder of Philip II and Alexander's rise to power.

During the Asian campaign, Laomedon received after the battle of Issus in 333 BC. The supervision of the prisoners of war. In India he was one of the Trierarchs of the Indus fleet.

After the death of Alexander in 323 BC In BC Laomedon received the province of Syria from the imperial regent Perdiccas as satrapy , which also included the strategically important Phoinikischen seaports and Koile Syria . But he turned against the authority of the regent by telling Ptolemy in 322 BC. In the diversion of Alexander's funeral procession was helpful. At the conference of Triparadeisos 320 BC He got his province confirmed by the regent Antipater .

After Antipater's death in 319 BC BC Laomedon came into conflict with Ptolemy, who annexed Syria after an invasion of his general Nikanor . He then joined the outlawed Alketas in Caria . After that, nothing more is known about him, presumably he fell with Alketas in the fight against Antigonos Monophthalmos .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Arrian , Succ. 1.34 and Ind. 18.4.
  2. ↑ Arrian Anabasis 3.6.5.
  3. ↑ Arrian 3.6.6.
  4. ↑ Arrian Ind. 18.4.
  5. ↑ Dexippos , The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 100, F 8 § 2; Diodorus 18.3.1.
  6. ^ Arrian Succ. 1.25.
  7. ↑ Diodorus 18.39.6.
  8. ↑ Diodorus 18.43.2.
  9. ^ Appian , Syrian Wars 52.
personal data
SURNAME Laomedon from Mytilene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laomedon; Λαομέδων (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General Alexander the Great, satrap of Syria
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.