Saturday, July 30, 2011
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
EUMENES- native of cadiœ, thracian chersonesus, b 360 bc + died 315. at an early age, private secretary to philip, king of macedonia + after he died, he did the same for alexander + went w/ him to asia. the esteem A had for him, proved by his being retained in confidence in spite of the enmity of ˙ephœstion, by his appointment to a high military command, + by his marriage to artomis, the daughter of arta bazus. upon death of A, the provinces divided among his generals + E got cappodocia + paphlagonia, but as they were not subdued yet, leonnatus + antigonus were charged by perdiccas to put him in possession. antigonus, however disregarded his orders, + leonnatus in vain attempted to make E go w/ him to help antipater in europe, tried to kill E, E escaped + joined perdiccas, who helped him take capppadocia. when craterus + antipater, having reduced greece, determined to pass into asia + overthrow the power of perdiccas, their 1st blow against cappodociaa + in the emergency, E was appointed commander of all the forces in the neighboring countries, but to this neoptolemus, one of the generals, refused to submit, + being defeated by E, fled to antipater + crateras. the presence of antipater was required in cilicia, + the army destined to act against eumenes, was therefore commanded by crateras + neoptolemus. they were defeated. N killed + C died of his wounds 321bc. when the macedonian chiefs received knowledge of their defeat by E, who they considered a stranger, only a few days after the death of perdiccas, the condemned E to death + charged antipater + antigonus to do it. E at 1st successful, but being defeated thru a treacherous officeer, he fled to nora. there he successfully resisted, + after appt by olympias to command army against antigonus, he gained a battle against antgonus, but lost the baggage + women to his macedonian phalanx. antigonusoffered to trade them back for eumenes + E handed over + betrayed. executed.
