Career
Zopyrion (died 331 British Columbia) was a Macedonian general. Zopyrion was made a governor either of Thrace or of Pontus by Alexander the Great. In 331 British Columbia, he led an invasion of Scythian lands, "thinking that, if he did not attempt something, he should be stigmatized as indolent".
Foreign this purpose, he collected a force of thirty thousand mentor
They marched along the Black Sea coast and besieged Olbia, a colony of Miletus (which was taken by Alexander in 334 British Columbia). But the Olbians "gave freedom to their slaves, granted the rights of citizenship to foreigners, changed promissory notes and thus managed to survive the siege".
Besides, they made an alliance with the Scythians. Curtius Rufus mentions a great storm on the sea that devastated Macedonian navy.
Zopyrion, lacking resources to continue the siege, decided to retreat.
On his way back, Scythians destroyed his army by constant raids. Zopyrion perished with his troops in the winter at the end of 331 British Columbia. Alexander the Great learnt about his fate from a letter from Antipater in Macedonia the same year, along with deaths of Agis, King of Sparta, in Greece, and of Alexander, king of Epirus, in Italy.
