Perdiccas

it took for the successors of Alexander to express royal ambition, I will be discussing how long it took, in what ways and whether or not any of them were intent on the maintaining of the empire as a whole, to this I will be looking at Ptolemy, Perdiccas and Eumenes. After Alexander’s death, there was a political vacuum, this vacuum was temporarily filled due to the initial settlement in Babylon where they decided that the most important of the Friends and of the Bodyguard should take over the

pregnant, there was no guarantee the child would be a boy. A clash with the authority began and one of Alexander’s greatest generals, Perdiccas emerged as the victor. Aridarus became king as Phillip

Perdiccas would become Regent of all the empire and Meleager would be his lieutenant. However, Perdiccas had Meleager arrested and murdered and took full control. The Generals of Alexander who supported Perdiccas were given parts of the Empire in the partition of Babylon. This sparked later wars between them which are known as the wars of the Diadochi (which

“The Persians are losing the engagement, but the valiant horseman is clearly holding his own; the nude figure, rather than representing a known Macedonian, is a brave Graeco-Macedonian warrior about the meet a noble death. ” In this description, Waldemar Heckel describes one of the battle scenes on the Alexander Sarcophagus, a piece which has much meaning in the study of Alexander the Great and the lives of the ancient Greeks and Persians as a whole. The artifact has speculative ties to the ancient

The Hellenistic period is a time where the greek influence expanded widely. During this period the artwork became extremely naturalistic with a lot more expression with showing various emotions. Many artists in this time period were no longer interested in showing the subjects as ideals of beauty, instead they were now focused on representing the true character of that particular subject. The embodiment of the subject’s character, naturalism, and series of emotion is what made the Hellenistic period

Macedonia and was the youngest of three sons. Philips father was King Amyntas III and when he died, he left the thrown to his eldest son Alexander II. Alexander II died after only three years and then the thrown was then given to the middle son Perdiccas III. Philip was held hostage by Thebes, for approximately three years, to help control the behavior of his brother the King Alexander II. Hostages were not treated horribly, as we envision today. They were held by their captures for

The nature of Hellenistic kingship is defined by a rise to power through military conquest and victories and being in a constant state of warfare. One weakness of these kings would their ability gain a vast territory of land during one battle and retain it for months until they lose it during another battle. Demetrius’ life can be viewed as an example of many instances of this struggle to hold power. The nature of Hellenistic kingship should be looked described as no more than gaining power through

highly on her royal blood. She combined the lines of Perdiccas and Philip and achieved power through her royal marriage to Arrhidaeus, or Philip III. Adea-Eurydice’s mother, Cynane, was an Illyrian princess, who continued with Illyrian tradition and taught her daughter the arts of war. Cynane attempted to marry her daughter to Arrhidaeus but was murdered in an attempt to prevent this from happening. The Macedonian army was so enraged that Perdiccas was forced to carry through with the marriage, anyways

After the death of Alexander the Great, the empire was in complete chaos for Alexander had not named an heir. While Perdiccas suggested waiting for the birth of Alexander and Roanne’s child, I proposed to divide the kingdom amongst the leading generals. After my campaign to divide the empire, I successfully acquired the title as the ruler of Egypt. I, Ptolemy Soter Ⅰ, the Pharaoh of Egypt, have contributed greatly to the advancements of my kingdom. For starters, I have stabilized the economy and

“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.” Alexander was the prince turned king of Macedonia from 356 BC to 323 BC. When his father left he was left in charge of Macedonia and defeated the Maedi. Alexander the Great was the prince of Macedonia who later took over when his father was assassinated. He conquered most of western Asia and India in his quest to conquer the world. Alexander's empire was not a product of chance but a product of choice