Socrates of Macedon

Socrates (Greek Σωκράτης ), son of Sathon, was a Macedonian cavalry general and companion ( Hetairos ) Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

Since the start of the Asia campaign, 334 BC Socrates commanded as ilarchos those squadron of Hetairenreiterei who was recruited from the district of Apollonia. In advance of the Granicus, he supported the vanguard of the Lancers of Amyntas and in the Battle of the Granicus, he led his squadron in conjunction with the infantry battalion of Ptolemy was the first across the river to attack the enemy. Presumably Socrates also took part in the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, although it is not mentioned by name there. Thereafter, however, he was apparently dismissed from his command and assigned to the governor Balakros in Cilicia.

After 333 BC Socrates advocates in the traditions on no longer. In the summer of 330 BC led an officer named Plato, a native of Athens, a reinforcement of 5000 Greek mercenaries on foot and 1000 horse from Cilicia Coming to the main army in the media to. In the historical research is speculated that Curtius Rufus had the officer Socrates probably confused at this mention of the famous Athenian philosopher Plato, as an officer named Plato is nowhere else mentioned.