EventsBy placeMacedonian EmpireIn
Babylon, the struggle for the succession to
Alexander the Great develops. With
Roxana giving birth to Alexander the Great's son,
Alexander IV Aegus, a compromise is reached by the Macedonian generals so that he and Alexander the Great's young and dim-witted brother
Philip III Arrhidaeus, are to be considered joint rulers.
Perdiccas, regent and Macedonian commander in chief based in Babylon, tries to keep effective control with the assistance of
Eumenes.Perdiccas breaks off his engagement with
Nicaea, daughter of
Antipater, because Alexander the Great's mother
Olympias offers him the hand of
Cleopatra, a sister of Alexander the Great.Perdiccas' most loyal supporter is Eumenes, governor of
Cappadocia and
Paphlagonia, which have not yet been conquered by the Macedonians.
Antigonus (governor of
Phrygia,
Lycia and
Pamphylia) refuses to undertake the task when Perdiccas orders him to do so. He is summoned by Perdiccas to Babylon to stand his trial for disobedience. In danger of his life he flees with his son
Demetrius to
Greece.Antigonus persuades Antipater and Craterus that Perdiccas must be destroyed. Thus Antipater and the Macedonian generals Antigonus,
Lysimachus of
Thrace,
Craterus,
Seleucus, and
Ptolemy unite in opposing the claims of Perdiccas.Perdiccas conquers
Cappadocia and installs Eumenes of Cardia as
satrap.
Peithon, the Macedonian satrap of
Media, suppresses a rebellion of Macedonian veterans.
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