Polydamas ( grc, Πολυδάμας, gen. Πολυδάμαντος, ''Polydámas'', ''Polydámantos'') was a

hetairos The Companions ( el, , ''hetairoi'') were the elite cavalry of the Macedonian army from the time of king Philip II of Macedon, achieving their greatest prestige under Alexander the Great, and regarded as the first or among the first shock cav ...

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...

ian or Thessalian origin. He was in Parmenion's guard, in the

Pharsalian Farsala ( el, Φάρσαλα), known in Antiquity as Pharsalos ( grc, Φάρσαλος, la, Pharsalus), is a city in southern Thessaly, in Greece. Farsala is located in the southern part of Larissa regional unit, and is one of its largest towns. ...

squadron. He was later sent by Alexander to Cleander with the command that Parmenion be put to death and was nearly lynched by Parmenion's troops after the order was carried out.

References

* ''Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great'' by Waldemar Heckel (2008) {{ISBN, 978-1-4051-1210-9 Generals of Alexander the Great Hetairoi Ancient Thessalians Ancient Macedonian generals Ancient Thessalian generals 4th-century BC Greek people