Chapter XXXIX: Appendix: I

THE DIVISIONS OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER.

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT, OB. JUNE B.C. 323.

Justin, 12, 16; Arrian, _An._ 7, 28.

{Philip III. (Arrhidaeus) half-brother of Alexander,
οἱ βασιλεῖς { ob. B.C. 317.
{Alexander IV. (posthumous son of Alexander by Roxana).

Successive Guardians {Perdiccas, killed B.C. 321.
(οἱ ἐπιμεληταί) {Arrhidaeus and Python (for a few months),
resigned B.C. 321.

Hipparch ... Seleucus. Captain of the Bodyguards ... Cassander.
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Macedonia and Greece. Antipater.

Egypt, and parts of Libya and Asia. Ptolemy s. of Lagus.

Pamphylia(1). Lycia. Greater Phrygia. Antigonus.

Caria. Cassander.

Thrace. Lysimachus.

Paphlagonia. Cappadocia. Eumenes.

Media Major. Python.

Syria. Laomedon.

Phrygia Hellespontiaca. Leonnatus.

Lydia. Meleager.(2)

Cilicia. Philotas.

Media Minor. Atropatos.

_Bactria ulterior._ Unchanged.(3)

_India._ Unchanged.

_Indian Colonies._ _Pithon s. of Agenor._

_Punjaub._ _Taxiles._

_Parapamisos._ _Oxyartes._

_Arachossi_ and _Cedrussi._ _Silyrtias._

_Draucae_ and _Arei._ _Stasanor._

_Bactria._ _Amyntas._

_Sogdiani._ _Stasandros._

_Parthians._ _Philip._

_Hyrcani._ _Phrataphernes._

_Carmani._ _Tleptolemus._

_Persis._ _Peucestes._

_Babylonians._ _Archon._

_Mesopotamia._ _Arcesilaus._

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(1) Justin gives Pamphylia and Lycia to Nearchus.

(2) Justin calls him Menander.

(3) The provinces and governors printed in italics are not mentioned
by Diodorus here, who merely says that they were unchanged, But
the list given by Justin agrees with that of Diodorus in the
next settlement, with certain exceptions, which may be regarded
as changes arising from death or other causes.

SECOND ARRANGEMENT, B.C. 321.

οἱ βασιλεῖς { Philip III. (Arrhidaeus) ob. 317 B.C.
{ Alexander IV. (son of Alexander
by Roxana).

Regent with absolute powers ... Antipater, ob. B.C. 318.
” ” ... Polysperchon, B.C. 318-315.

Strategus of the Empire ... Antigonus.

Chiliarch ” ... Cassander (s. of Antigonus).
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B.C. 321. SECOND ARRANGEMENT OF THE PROVINCES. Diod. 18, 39.
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(Unchanged.) Macedonia and Greece. (Unchanged.) Antipater.

(Unchanged.) Egypt & parts of Libya
& Asia. Ptolemy, s. of Lagus.

Greater Phrygia, Lycia, & Susiana added. Antigonus.

(Unchanged.) Cassander.

(Unchanged.) Thrace. Lysimachus.

(Unchanged.) Media. Python.

(Unchanged.) Syria. Laomedon.

Cilicia. Philoxenus.

Babylonia. Seleucus.

Cappadocia. Nicanor.

Lydia Cheiton.

Phrygia Hellespontiaca. Arrhidaeus.

Mesopotamia and Asbelitis. Amphimachus.

The other provinces as in the previous list.

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THIRD ARRANGEMENT, B.C. 312-311.

King ... Alexander IV. (in charge of Roxana).

Strategus in Europe till the king comes of age ... Cassander.

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B.C. 312-311. THIRD ARRANGEMENT OF THE PROVINCES OF THE EMPIRE.
Diod. Sic. 19, 105.
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Egypt. Ptolemy, s. of Lagus.

Thrace. Lysimachus.

Macedonia. Cassander.

All Asia (ἀφηγεῖσθαι). Antigonus.

Babylonia. Seleucus Nicanor.

Greece nominally free, B.C. 307
Demetrius (s. of Antigonus) becomes
Master of Athens.

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B.C. 311. Alexander IV. and Roxana murdered by order of Cassander.

B.C. 306. FOURTH ARRANGEMENT. +Kingdoms+
FORMED, AFTER THE NAVAL VICTORY OF DEMETRIUS OVER PTOLEMY.
Diod. 30, 53.
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King of Egypt. Ptolemy, s. of Lagus.

King of Syria and Asia. Antigonus.

King of Upper Asia. Seleucus.

King of Thrace. Lysimachus.

King of Macedonia. Cassander.

Demetrius Poliorcetes (s. of Antigonus)
also takes the title of _king_,
and in B.C. 304 returns to Athens
and wages war with Cassander.

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B.C. 301. SETTLEMENT AFTER THE BATTLE OF IPSUS,
IN WHICH ANTIGONUS FELL.

(Lysimachus and Seleucus against Antigonus and Demetrius.)

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King of Egypt. Ptolemy, s. of Lagus, ob. 283.

King of Syria. Seleucus Nicanor, ob. B.C. 280.

King of Thrace. Lysimachus, ob. 281.

King of Macedonia. Cassander, ob. B.C. 297.

Greece is nominally free, but in B.C. 295
Demetrius takes Athens, and becoming King of
Macedonia in B.C. 295 to B.C. 287, he retains
Greece as part of the kingdom. In the confusion
which followed it was practically free.

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