Zopyrion

Zopyrion († probably 325 BC) was a Macedonian general.

Zopyrion was under the rule of Alexander the Great, a military governor ( strategos ) of Thrace. Since Alexander was at that time on its famous Asia campaign, Zopyrion likely to have been entrusted by the regent Antipater with this office.

Zopyrion became known as the leader of a large-scale campaign to subjugate the Greek colony of Olbia on the Black Sea. With 30,000 men he crossed to the Danube, to march along the coast. The siege of the city, however, failed due to the resistance of its inhabitants, who dismissed under others their slaves to freedom, and Foreign awards for civil rights so that they could participate in the defense. On the return march was the Macedonian army of attacks by the Scythians and Getae with which Olbia had allied, wiped out. Zopyrion was killed.

Dating

The exact dating of the Zopyrion - campaign designed to problematic. According to Justin, he was in 331 BC instead, but the revolting Memnon was for this year already called the Office of the strategists of Thrace. Curtius, however, implies the year 325 BC for the campaign, which Zopyrion the successor in office would have been Memnon. The downfall of the Macedonian Army and death Zopyrions Curtius made ​​it crucial for the emancipation several Thracian tribes under Seuthes III. of the Macedonian supremacy.

Only with the appointment of the governor Lysimachus in 323 BC, a Macedonian regime in Thrace is reinstalled.

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