Philoxenus (general)

Philoxenos (Greek Φιλόξενος ) was the name of two Macedonian followers of Alexander the Great, with a common identity of the two persons is likely.

In the year 323 BC led Philoxenos, governor ( satrap ) of Caria, the staying in Babylon Alexander a contingent of troops to. Apparently he had previously taken at an unknown time, this province after the death of Princess Ada. To what extent he was employed with the BC in Asia Minor in the year 331 of the same top civil administrator was identical in dispute. In the took place on the death of Alexander's empire order of Babylon he was in any case not be considered as governor of Caria, where now Asandros was used.

More likely the " Carian Philoxenos " with the BC appointed by the regent Perdiccas Empire in the year 322, governor of Cilicia was identical. Although the Regent 320 BC in the first Diadochenkrieg subject, Philoxenos was confirmed by the victors at the conference of Triparadeisos in this office. After that nothing is handed to him.