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Parmenion (also Parmenio; ; c. 400 – Ecbatana, 330 BC) was a Macedonian general in the service of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, who was assassinated on a false charge of treason. Parmenion was a nobleman and father of Philotas. Parmenion rose to become Philip's chief military lieutenant and Alexander's Strategos (military general).
Parmenion was an architect, who was employed by Alexander the Great in the building of Alexandria. He was entrusted with the superintendence of the works of sculpture, especially in the temple of Serapis ( Serapium), which came to be called by his name Parmenionis. Clement of Alexandria, however, ascribes the great statue of Serapis to Bryaxis. He is also mentioned by Vitruvius.
Parmenion or Parmenio may refer to:
- Parmenion high general of Philip and Alexander
- Parmenion (architect) in Alexandria (4th-3rd century BC)
- Parmenion (poet) of Greek Anthology
Parmenion was a Macedonian epigrammatic poet, whose verses were included in the collection of Philip of Thessalonica in Greek Anthology ; whence it is probable that he flourished in, or shortly before, the time of Augustus. Brunck gives fourteen of his epigrams in the Analecta (vol. ii. pp. 201–203), and one more in the Lectiones (p. 177; Jacobs, Antli. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 184–187). Reiske refers to him one of the anonymous epigrams (No. cxxi.), on the ground of the superscription Parmenontos in the Vatican MS, but that is the name, not of the author of the epigram, but of the victor who dedicated the statue to which it forms the inscription, as is clear from the epigram itself (comp. Brunck, Led. p. 265 ; Jacobs, Animadv. in Anih. Graec. vol. iii. pt. i. p. 356). The epigrams of Parmenion are characterized by brevity, which he himself declares (Ep. 1) that he aimed at; unfortunately, they want the body, of which brevity is said to be the soul,—wit.