Peithon
Sign in to savePeithon or Pithon (Greek: Πείθων or Πίθων, 355 – 314 BC) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia. He was famous for being one of the bodyguards of Alexander the Great, becoming the later satrap of Media, and claiming to be one of the diadochi.
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Key facts
- Officeholder.name
- Peithon
- Officeholder.native_name
- Πείθων
- Officeholder.native_name_lang
- grc
- Officeholder.office
- Regent of Macedon
- Officeholder.term_start
- 320 BC
- Officeholder.term_end
- 320 BC
- Officeholder.alongside
- Arrhidaeus
- Officeholder.monarch
- Alexander IV & Philip III
- Officeholder.predecessor
- Perdiccas
- Officeholder.successor
- Antipater
- Officeholder.office1
- Satrap of Media
- Officeholder.term_start1
- 323 BC
- Officeholder.term_end1
- 314 BC
- Officeholder.monarch1
- Alexander IV
- Officeholder.birth_date
- 355 BC
- Officeholder.birth_place
- Eordaia, Macedonia
- Officeholder.death_date
- 314 BC (aged 41–42)
- Officeholder.death_cause
- Execution
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- date of birth
- 0355-01-01
- date of death
- 0316-01-01
- name in native language
- Πίθων
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Peithon or Pithon (Greek: Πείθων or Πίθων, 355 – 314 BC) was the son of Crateuas, a nobleman from Eordaia in western Macedonia. He was famous for being one of the bodyguards of Alexander the Great, becoming the later satrap of Media, and claiming to be one of the diadochi.
==Biography== Peithon was named one of the seven (later eight) Somatophylakes "bodyguards" of Alexander in 335 BC. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Peithon was made the satrap of Media, the strategically important region that controlled all roads between east and west. The satrapy was too large for one man; Peithon would be very powerful, and could destabilize the entire empire. Therefore, he had to give up the northern part, which was given to Atropates; from then on the region was known as Media Atropatene.