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Somatophylakes (Gr****: Σωματοφύλακες; singular: somatophylax, σωματοφύλαξ) were the
bodyguards of high-ranking
people in
ancient Greece. The most famous...
- Ὀρεστίδος) was a
member of
Philip II of Macedon's
personal bodyguard (
somatophylakes). He ********inated
Philip in 336 BC,
possibly at the
behest of Philip's...
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Arrian in the only
complete list of
Somatophylakes. At Susa in
spring 324 BC,
Lysimachus and the rest of the
Somatophylakes were
crowned by Alexander, though...
- into the
Roman Republic in 30 BC. Ptolemy, a
general and one of the
somatophylakes (bodyguard companions) of
Alexander the Great, was
appointed satrap...
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Chosen Companions, or Hetairoi,
formed the
elite guard of the king (
Somatophylakes). The name of the
military unit
derives from Gr**** Hetairoi,
those near...
- Together, the
three men
formed the top
ruling group of the empire. The
Somatophylakes were the
seven bodyguards of Alexander.
Satraps (Old Persian: xšaθrapāwn)...
- Medjay,
since the old
kingdom of
Egypt until the
Ptolemaic dynasty Somatophylakes, in the
ancient Kingdom of
Macedonia Royal Palace Guards, in
Burma Hangu...
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Alexander the
Great struck by
Balakros or his
successor Menes, both
former somatophylakes (bodyguards) of Alexander, when they held the
position of
satrap of...
- king was ****isted by the
royal pages (basilikoi paides),
bodyguards (
somatophylakes),
companions (hetairoi),
friends (philoi), an ****embly that included...
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close to him. Later, he was one of Alexander's
seven bodyguards, or
somatophylakes.
After Alexander died in 323 BC, the regent, Perdiccas, made Leonnatus...
