Nikanor from Stageira

Nikanor (Greek: Νικάνωρ; 4th century BC) was a Greek and possibly a relative, but at least a fellow citizen of Aristotle .

Nicanor was together with the later as Alexander the Great known Macedonian crown prince of Aristotle in Mieza taught. In his will, Aristotle named him his son-in-law and guardian of his son.

Nikanor took part in Alexander's campaigns. Middle of 324 BC BC Nikanor stayed with Alexander, who sent him to Olympia to read Alexander's decree on the recall of the exiles. The order quickly became known and Demosthenes went to Olympia to negotiate with Nikanor about the effects of the decree on Athens. As a result, Demosthenes was allowed to send envoys to Alexander. In addition to this decree, Nikanor probably also announced other orders from Alexander.

It is unclear whether Nikanor is identical to the man of the same name († 317 BC) who was involved in the Second Diadoch War from 319 BC. When Kassander was subordinate in command of the Athens fortress Munychia and naval commander. In more recent considerations by Waldemar Heckel , AB Bosworth and Werner Huss this is excluded.

It is possible that Nikanor von Stageira wrote a biography of Alexander the Great ( fragments of the Greek historians 146).

swell

• Diogenes Laertios 5, 1, 9; 5, 12.
• Diodorus 17, 109, 1; 18, 8, 3-4.
• Curtius Rufus 10, 2.

literature

• Helmut Berve : The Alexander Empire on a prosopographical basis . Volume 2, Prosopography , Munich 1926, (Νικάνωρ: No. 557).
• AB Bosworth: A New Macedonian Prince , In: The Classical Quarterly , New Series, Vol. 44 (1994), pp. 57-65.
• Waldemar Heckel: Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire . Blackwell, Oxford 2006, p. 177, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9

Remarks

1. ↑ Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , p. 132, note 280 .