Nicanor
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
Figure honored by Athens with a statue and epigram for having bought Salamis for them; cited by critics of Athenian honors.
And those who disparage the city are wont to cite also the epigram on the statue of Nicanor, who bought Salamis for them.
Against Demosthenes
An agent of Alexander who arrived in Greece with orders concerning the exiles, forming the political backdrop to Harpalus's flight.
When Harpalus recently descended on Greece so suddenly that he took everyone by surprise, he found affairs in the Peloponnese and in the rest of Greece in this condition owing to the arrival of Nicanor with the orders which he brought from Alexander relating to the exiles and to the of the Achaean, Arcadian, and Boeotian Leagues You have contrived this situation by means of your decree, because you arrested Harpalus.