Balacrus

Balakros ( Greek: Βάλακρος, lat: Balacrus; † 324 BC ), son of Nicanor, was a Macedonian satrap of Cilicia.

With his wife Phila, daughter of Antipater, the future wife of Craterus and Demetrius Poliorketes, he had three sons; Antipater, Thraseas and Balakros.

Balakros was a bodyguard ( somatophylax ) Alexander the Great at the beginning of the Asian campaign. After the Battle of Issus in 333 BC he was appointed governor of the province of Cilicia. In the year 332 BC, he supported the satraps Antigonus Monophthalmos and Kalas in the subjugation of the rest of Asia Minor. In his nearly ten -year term Balakros conducted several fiscal measures, because of which he was in 324 BC killed in a revolt of the Pisidians.

He was replaced by the staying in Babylon by Alexander Philotas in office. The revolt of the Pisidians was not until 321 BC overthrown the kingdom regent Perdiccas.