Nicanor of Syria

Nicanor (Latin; Greek: Νικάνωρ Nikanōr) or Nikanor was a Syrian Greek who lived in the 3rd century BCE.

Together with a Gaul named Apaturius, he assassinated Seleucus III Ceraunus during his expedition into Asia against Attalus I in 222 BCE. He was immediately seized and executed by order of the general Achaeus.

(Polybius 4.48; Eusebius Armenian text 165.)

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).