Nicanor of Stageira

Nicanor (Greek: Νικάνωρ; 4th century BC) was a Greek, and possibly relative, but at least citizens of Aristotle.

Nicanor was taught along with the later as Alexander the Great known Macedonian crown prince of Aristotle in Mieza. Aristotle determined him in his will to the son and guardian of his son.

Nicanor took part in the campaigns of Alexander. The mid 324 BC Nicanor held on with Alexander, who sent him to Olympia, there to read Alexander's decree on the recall of the exiles. The order was quickly known and Demosthenes went to Olympia to negotiate with Nicanor about the impact of the decree on Athens. As a result, Demosthenes was allowed to send envoys to Alexander. In addition to this decree announced Nicanor probably also other arrangements of Alexander.

It is unclear whether Nicanor is identical to the same man († 317 BC), the BC was Cassander since 319 as a subordinate commander of the Athenian fort Munychia and Flottenkomandeur in the Second Diadochenkrieg. More recent observations by Waldemar Heckel, AB Bosworth and Werner Huss, this is excluded.

Maybe wrote Nicanor of Stagira a biography of Alexander the Great (fragments of Greek historians 146).

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• Diogenes Laertius 5, 1, 9; 5, 12,
• Diodorus 17, 109, 1; 18, 8, 3-4.
• Curtius Rufus 10, 2