Cassander drives Polyperchon from Macedonia in 317 …
Years: 317BCE - 317BCE
Cassander drives Polyperchon from Macedonia in 317 BCE.
Alexander's two successors, his half-brother Philip III Arrhidaeus and his son Alexander IV, continue to furnish a nominal focus for loyalty.
When Cassander establishes Arrhidaeus as king of Macedon in 317 BCE, Philip’s wife makes Cassander regent.
The Macedonian soldiers, however, support the return of a furious Olympias, who puts to death Philip and his wife, Eurydice II, as well as Cassander's brother and a hundred of his partisans.
Olympias is finally named Stratonice, which is probably an epithet attached to Olympias following her victory over Eurydice in 317 BCE.
Locations
People
- Alexander IV of Macedon
- Antigonus I Monophthalmus
- Cassander
- Eumenes of Cardia
- Eurydice II of Macedon
- Lysimachus
- Olympias
- Philip III Arrhidaeus
- Polyperchon
- Ptolemy I Soter
