Gorgias of Macedon

Gorgias (Greek Γοργίας ) was a Macedonian officer and companion ( Hetairos ) Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

During the campaign Gorgias Asia for the first time 328 BC, the pezhetairoi called in Sogdiana as taxi archos a battalion in the fight against Spitamenes. He had this command probably since 330 BC held, as the successor of Craterus. After crossing the Hindu Kush to India he was with his battalion in the advance command of Hephaestion and Perdiccas, which reached the Indus first. In the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, he held jointly with the departments of Meleager and Attalus the west bank of the stream, and was therefore not in the battle, which was fought on the eastern shore, involved. In the year 324 BC Gorgias was released in Opis with the other veterans under the leadership of Craterus in the Macedonian homeland. Then it is no longer mentioned.