Balakros (362-328 BC) was a Macedonian nobleman and one of the somatophylakes (bodyguards) of Alexander the Great.
Biography[]
Balakros was the son of Nicanor, a powerful nobleman at the court of King Philip II of Macedon, and he became one of Alexander the Great's seven somatophylakes (bodyguards) in 335 BC. Following the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, Balakros became satrap of Cilicia, succeeding the Persian satrap Arsames. He, Calas, and Antigonus completed the conquest of Asia Minor as Alexander marched into the Levant and Egypt, and he fell in battle with the Pisidians of Lycia in 328 BC.
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Balakros as a general