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Bacchides (general)
Bacchides (Greek: Βακχίδης) (fl. 2nd-century BCE) was a Syrian-Greek general (strategos), governor, friend and advisor (philos) of King Demetrius I Soter of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucid Empire was one of the Greek successor states (ruled by the diadochi) founded after the conquests of Alexander the Great, and was centered in Syria and Babylonia in the Hellenistic era.
Bacchides is only known from the books of Maccabees (1 Maccabees, possibly 2 Maccabees as well) and the works of the historian Josephus.
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