Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors

Contents

Map of Alexander’s Campaigns viii List of Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 chapter 1 Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia 9 chapter 2 Alexander and Discontent: The King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia 31 chapter 3 The Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323) 61 chapter 4 The Dissolution of the Royal Army, I: The Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus 87 chapter 5 The Dissolution of the Royal Army, II: The Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus, and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus 119 chapter 6 The Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor 145 chapter 7 Eumenes and the Silver Shields 177 chapter 8 The Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes’ Death 212 Conclusion 237 Bibliography 245 Index 257 contents Roisman-final.indb vii Roisman-final.indb vii 1/29/12 9:45:21 PM 1/29/12 9:45:21 PM ...