Nicanor (son of Antipater)

Nicanor (Ancient Greek: Νικάνωρ; ) was a Macedonian nobleman, son of Antipater, regent of Macedon, and brother of Cassander, king of Macedon. He appears to have spent Alexander's reign at his father's court in Pella.Waldemar Heckel, Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 177.

At the Partition of Triparadisus in 321/320 BC, after the death of the regent Perdiccas, Nicanor was appointed satrap of Cappadocia, replacing Eumenes of Cardia.Arrian, as reported by Photius 72a; Diodorus 18.39; Appian Mithr. 8.Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 67. Waterfield presumes that when Antigonus moved to consolidate his position in Asia Minor in 318, Nicanor found himself redundant and fled to Macedon.Waterfield, 82. In 317 BC, following the deaths of Philip III Arrhidaeus and Adea Eurydice, Olympias had Nicanor put to death, claiming to be avenging the death of Alexander the Great.Heckel, 177.

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