Bagophanes

Bagophanes was the Achaemenid commander of the citadel at Babylon in the 4th century BCE. He willingly surrendered it and all the royal treasures to Alexander the Great after the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE, laying out a carpet of flowers and garlands for Alexander on the road.[1][2] Bagophanes led a formal procession from the city to offer its surrender.[3] Afterward, Alexander kept him in his entourage.[4]

He was possibly a eunuch.[4]

References

  1. ^ Curt. 5.1
  2. ^ Kuhrt, Amélie (2013). The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136017025. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  3. ^ Burns, Ross (2017). Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East. Oxford University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780191087455. Retrieved 2025-09-20.
  4. ^ a b Heckel, Waldemar (2008). "Bagophanes". Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. Wiley. p. 68. ISBN 9781405154697. Retrieved 2025-09-20.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Bagophanes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 454.

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