Philip (son of Machatas)

Builder of Alexandria on the Indus

Philip

Philip ruled the northern dominions of the Indus, down to the junction of the Indus and the Acesines

Died| 325 BC

Philip (Greek: Φίλιππoς; died 325 BC), son of Machatas and brother of Harpalus, was an officer in the service of Alexander the Great, who in 327 BC was appointed by Alexander as satrap of India, including the provinces westward of the Hydaspes (Jhelum river), as far south as the junction of the Indus with the Acesines (Chenab river).[1] After the conquest of the Malli (Malwa) and Oxydracae, these tribes also were added to his government.[2]

Philip was put in charge by Alexander of building the city of Alexandria on the Indus.

The territory south of the junction of the Indus with the Acesines (Chenab river) to the sea was given to Oxyartes and Peithon, son of Agenor (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander VI.15.4)

## Death

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After the departure of Alexander from India, Philip was assassinated in 325 BC by a conspiracy formed among the mercenary troops under his command.[3][4] Alexander named Eudamus and Taxiles as rulers of his territories in replacement:

"Alexander dispatched letters to India to Eudamus and Taxilas telling them to take charge of the district formerly under Philip, until he himself sent a satrap to govern it." (Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, VI.27.2)

## Notes

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1. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, v. 8
2. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, vi. 14
3. ^ Mookerji 1988, p. 30.
4. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, vi. 27; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, x. 1

## References

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* Mookerji, Radha Kumud (1988) [first published in 1966], Chandragupta Maurya and his times (4th ed.), Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 81-208-0433-3
* Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Philippus (6)"[usurped], Boston, (1867)

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Hellenistic satraps

Satraps under Alexander the Great
(334-323 BC)|

* Ada (Queen of Caria)
* Asander, Menander (Lydia)
* Calas, Demarchus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Greater Phrygia)
* Balakros, Menes (Cilicia)
* Abistamenes (Cappadocia)
* Abdalonymus (Sidon)
* Mithrenes (Armenia)
* Mazaeus, Stamenes (Babylon)
* Mazakes (Mesopotamia)
* Abulites (Susiana)
* Oxydates, Atropates (Media)
* Phrasaortes, Oxines, Peucestas (Persis)
* Cleomenes of Naucratis (Egypt)
* Satibarzanes (Aria)
* Sibyrtius (Carmania)
* Autophradates (Tapuri, Mardi)
* Andragoras (Parthia)
* Amminapes, Phrataphernes, Pharismanes (Hyrcania and Parthia)
* Artabazos, Cleitus the Black, Amyntas (Bactria)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Philip, Eudemus (India)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Porus (Indus)

Satraps at the
Partition of Babylon
(323 BC)|

* Antipater (Macedon and Greece)
* Philo (Illyria)
* Lysimachus (Thrace)
* Leonnatus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Phrygia)
* Asander (Caria)
* Nearchus (Lycia and Pamphylia)
* Menander (Lydia)
* Philotas (Cilicia)
* Eumenes (Cappadocia and Paphlagonia)
* Ptolemy (Egypt)
* Laomedon of Mytilene (Syria)
* Neoptolemus (Armenia)
* Peucestas (Persis)
* Arcesilaus (Mesopotamia)
* Peithon (Greater Media)
* Atropates (Lesser Media)
* Scynus (Susiana)
* Tlepolemus (Persia)
* Nicanor (Parthia)
* Phrataphernes (Armenia, Parthia)
* Antigenes (Susiana)
* Archon (Pelasgia)
* Philip (Hyrcania)
* Stasanor (Aria and Drangiana)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia and Gedrosia)
* Amyntas (Bactria)
* Scythaeus (Sogdiana)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Porus (Indus)

Satraps at the
Partition of Triparadisus
(321 BC)|

* Antipater (Macedon and Greece)
* Lysimachus (Thrace)
* Arrhidaeus (Hellespontine Phrygia)
* Antigonus (Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia)
* Cassander (Caria)
* Cleitus the White (Lydia)
* Philoxenus (Cilicia)
* Nicanor (Cappadocia and Paphlagonia)
* Ptolemy (Egypt)
* Laomedon of Mytilene (Syria)
* Peucestas (Persis)
* Amphimachus (Mesopotamia)
* Peithon (Media)
* Tlepolemus (Carmania)
* Philip (Parthia)
* Antigenes (Susiana)
* Seleucus (Babylonia)
* Stasanor (Bactria and Sogdiana)
* Stasander (Aria and Drangiana)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia and Gedrosia)
* Oxyartes (Paropamisia)
* Taxiles (Punjab)
* Peithon, son of Agenor (Gandhara)
* Porus (Indus)

Later Satraps|

* Peithon, son of Agenor (Babylon)
* Sibyrtius (Arachosia, Drangiana)
* Eudemus (Indus)
* Bagadates, Ardakhshir I, Wahbarz, Vadfradad I, Vadfradad II, Alexander c. 220 BC (Persis)
* Andragoras (Parthia)
* Demodamas (Bactria, Sogdiana)
* Diodotus (Bactria)
* Alexander (Lydia)
* Molon c. 220 BC, Timarchus, c. 175 BC (Media)
* Apollodorus (Susiana)
* Ptolemaeus (Commagene)
* Noumenios, Hyspaosines c. 150 BC (Characene)

Hellenistic satraps were preceded by Achaemenid rulers, and followed or ruled by Hellenistic rulers

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