Definition of Somatophylax. Meaning of Somatophylax. Synonyms of Somatophylax

- Somatophylakes (Gr****: Σωματοφύλακες; singular: somatophylax, σωματοφύλαξ) were the bodyguards of high-ranking people in ancient Greece. The most famous...
- conspiracy of Philotas, and was executed. Ptolemy I Soter replaced him as somatophylax. Arrian, Anabasis 3.27.5 Quintus Curtius Rufus 6.7.15 and 6.11.35-38...
- image on one side and a lion on the other. He was probably appointed Somatophylax during the reign of Philip II. During Alexander's Persian campaigns,...
- Ptolemy (Ancient Gr****: Πτολεμαῖος) was one of the selected officers of Alexander the Great, called somatophylaces. He was killed at the siege of Halicarn****us...
- realism Demetrius of Phalerum (c. 350 – c. 280 BC) Demetrius (somatophylax), somatophylax of Alexander the Great (d. 330 BC) Demetrius I of Macedon (337–283...
- Chiliarch (after 323 BC) Aristonous of Pella Arybbas (somatophylax) Balacrus Demetrius (somatophylax) Hephaestion Leonnatus Lysimachus Menes of Pella Pausanias...
- Arybbas (Gr****: Αρύββας) was a somatophylax of Alexander the Great. He was probably from Epirus, a member of the Molossian royal house (i.e., a relative...
- Administrative/ Ceremonial Appointed/ Identified Personal/ Institutional Somatophylax Gr**** Executive Appointed Courtly Soter Gr**** Ceremonial Identified Supernatural...
- probably as a consolation, Pausanias of Orestis was promoted to the rank of somatophylax. It has been supposed then that Pausanias' motive for killing Philip...
- out gifts but also promotion of Gr**** culture and religion. Ptolemy, a somatophylax, one of the seven bodyguards who served as Alexander the Great's generals...