Outline 9 for 2/17
The Age of the Successors: A Question of Legitimacy
OR
"Breaking up is hard to do"

I. Introduction

A. Sources
B. Main Players
C. Events 323-319 B.C.

II. Sources for the Diadochoi

A. Hieronymous of Cardia (eye-witness)

1. wrote an account of the wars of the Successors (to 272 BCE)
2. used by

• Arrian (2nd CE), Events after Alexander (in 10 books)
• Plutarch
• Diodorus

B. Polybius (200 to after 118 BCE)

1. most important source for the period 264-146 BCE
2. wrote a history in 40 books to explain how Rome rose to the position of world domination in just 50 years
3. used by Diodorus

C. Diodorus (1st century BCE)

1. wrote a World History in 40 books
2. relied heavily on Hieronymous

III. Major Players

A. Family of Antipater (interests focus on the Macedonian and Greek homeland)

• Antipater (398-319 BCE, of the "older" generation)
• Cassander (355-298/7 BCE)

B. Family of Antigonus

• Antigonus the One-Eyed (382-301 BCE, of the "older" generation)
• Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-283 BCE)
• Antigonus Gonatus (320-239 BCE)

C. Ptolemies

• Ptolemy I, son of Lagus (360-384 BCE)

D. Seleucids

• Seleucus, son of Antiochus (358-281 BCE)
• Antiochus I (324-261 BCE)

E. Other Generals of Alexander (who did not manage to establish dynasties)

• Perdiccas, son of Orontes (360-321/0 BCE)
• Craterus (362-321/0 BCE)
• Eumenes of Cardia (360-316 BCE)
• Lysimachus, son of Agathocles (361-281 BCE)

III. Arrangements following the Death of Alexander

A. Sedition in the Army

• Meleager
• Perdiccas

B. Arrian (fragment from Events after Alexander = Austin 22a)
C. Diodorus 18.3.2-5

IV. Perdiccas and Antipater

A. Perdiccas (323-321/0 BCE)
B. Arrangements following the death of Perdiccas (320 BCE)

1. Settlement at Triparadisus, N. Syria

C. After the Death of Antipater in 319 BCE