Eumenes

Relatives:

• Father: Hieronymus of Cardia
• Wife: Artonis

Main deeds:

• 361: Born on the Thracian Chersonese
• 341: Secretary of king Philip II of Macedonia
• 336: Assassination of Philip (text); accession of Alexander the Great
• 334: Invasion of Asia
• 326: Commander of a military unit in the eastern Punjab
• 324: Marriages at Susa; Eumenes marries Artonis (text)
• 323: Death of Alexander in Babylon (text); settlement of Babylon (text); Eumenes made satrap of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia
• 322: Outbreak of the First Diadoch War (Antipater, Antigonus, Ptolemy Soter, and Craterus against Perdiccas and Eumenes)
• 321: Eumenes defeats Craterus
• 320: Death of Perdiccas; Conference of Triparadisus (text); end of First Diadoch War; Antigonus made supreme commander of the Macedonian forces in Asia; his task is to defeat Eumenes
• 319: Antigonus besieges Eumenes at Nora (text)
• 318: Outbreak of the Second Diadoch War (Polyperchon and Eumenes against Antigonus and Cassander, son of Antipater)
• 317: Antigonus pursues Eumenes to Gabae (text); Eumenes uses the cult for Alexander to gain support
• 315: Antigonus defeats Eumenes; his soldiers hand him over to Antigonus, who orders his execution

Sources:

• Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes
• Diodorus of Sicily, Library of World History, Book 18
• Plutarch of Chaeronea, Eumenes