Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek among Macedonians, Second EditionEumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2nd edition) updates the original work in light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents much new analysis influenced by this continuing scholarship. Eumenes of Cardia was a royal secretary who, in the years following the death of Alexander the Great became a major contender for power. Despite the fact that he had been chiefly an administrator rather than one of Alexander’s elite military commanders, and that he was a Greek from the city of Cardia, as opposed to a native Macedonian, Eumenes came close to securing control of the Asian remnants of Alexander’s empire. His history is important because our sources for the years immediately following the Conqueror’s death are dominated by the Cardian’s story. Moreover, his death marked in many respects the approaching end of the Macedonian dynasty of kings who had ruled Macedonia since the 8th c. BC, and his life illuminated both the nature of the Macedonian heritage and the possibilities of the new age ushered in by the conquests of the great Alexander. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The Sources | 4 |
Chapter 2 From Cardia to Babylon | 41 |
Chapter 3 From Babylon to Cappadocia | 58 |
Chapter 4 From Cappadocia to Triparadeisus | 88 |
Chapter 5 The Fickleness of Fortune | 32 |
Chapter 6 The Reckoning with Antigonus | 163 |
Chapter 7 Greeks and Macedonians | 213 |
Chapter 8 A Greek among Macedonians | 241 |
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Aetolians Alcetas Alex Alexander Alexander’s death alliance allies Anab Anson Antigenes Antigonus Antipater Antipater and Craterus Antipater’s appear Argead argyraspids Armenia Arrhidaeus Arrian arrived Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attalus authority Babylon Babylonia battle Billows Borza Bosworth Briant campaign Cappadocia Cardian Cassander Cassander’s cavalry Diod certainly Chapter Cilicia Cleitus Cleopatra command companion cavalry Craterus Curt Curtius Cyinda defeat Demetrius desert Diadochs Diod Diodorus Diodorus 18 Duris Egypt Errington ethnicity Eumenes FGrH fleet forces Gabene given Greece Greek Hammond and Griffith Hdts Heckel Hellenes Hellespont hetairoi Hieronymus historian hypaspists infantry Justin king king’s Lamian later Leonnatus Lysimachus Macedonian Meleager mercenaries Moreover Neoptolemus Nepos Eum Olympias Paraetacene Paus Perdiccas Persian Peucestas Philip Pisidia Pithon Plut Plutarch Plutarch Eum Polyaen Polyb Polyperchon Ptolemy Ptolemy’s reference regent royal army satrap Seleucus sent soldiers sources Succ suggests surviving Susa Thuc tion Triparadeisus troops upper satrapies victory winter quarters