Stasanor

Stasanor ( Greek Στασάνωρ; * in the 4th century BC ) was a Greek general under Alexander the Great .

Stasanor came from the Cypriot Soloi and was probably related to the local ruling house. He was a compatriot of Clearchus of Soloi . From about 332 BC. He took part in the Asian campaign as a hetairus in the wake of Alexander. In the winter of 328 BC He captured the rebel satrap Arsakes of Areia and brought him in chains to Alexander in Nautaka . He was then used as a satrap in Areia and Drangiana . Allegedly he was 323 BC. Participated in Alexander's last drinking bout in Babylon , later authors assumed that he was participating in a conspiracy against the king.

After Alexander's death, Stasanor was confirmed in his provinces by the regent Perdiccas . At the conference of Triparadeisos 320 BC He was replaced there by his compatriot Stasandros and was entrusted with the provinces of Bactria and Sogdia . In 317 BC Chr. He Eumenes come to support troops, but did not take even the fight against Antigonus Monophthalmos part. Despite his partisanship for Eumenes, Stasanor was won over by the victorious Antigonus in 316 BC. Confirmed in its provinces. After that, nothing more of him has come down to us.

Stasanor is the last known satrap of Bactria-Sogdia for a period of about 60 years. Around the year 305 BC These provinces fell under the rule of Seleucus . The next known satrap, Diodotos I , said around the middle of the 3rd century BC. From the Seleucid Empire and founded the Greco-Bactrian Empire .

literature

• Waldemar Heckel : The marshals of Alexander's empire. Routledge, London et al. 1992, ISBN 0-415-05053-7 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 3,29,5
2. ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 4,18,1-3
3. ↑ Pseudo- Callisthenes 3, 31, 8-9
4. ↑ Diodorus 18,3,3
5. ↑ Diodorus 18,39,6; Arrian, Succ. Alex. 1.36; by Gerhard Wirth ( Stasanor , in: Kleiner Pauly , Vol. 5, Col. 342) because of the similarity of names of the two satraps.
6. ↑ Diodorus 19,14,7
7. ↑ Diodorus 19,48,1