Alexander (son of Polyperchon)

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Alexander (

Macedonia, and an important general in the Wars of the Diadochi
.

Alexander in Athens

Munychia by Antipater.[2]

Before Alexander's arrival, Nicanor strengthening his position in Munychia with fresh troops and had also treacherously seized Piraeus. Alexander had the same intentions, intentions which he had probably formed before he had any communication with Phocion, though Diodorus[3] seems to imply the contrary. The Athenians, however, looked on Phocion as the author of the design, and their suspicions and anger were further excited by the private conferences between Alexander and Nicanor. As a result, Phocion was accused of treason, and, fleeing with several of his friends to Alexander, was despatched by Alexander to Polyperchon.[4]

Cassander arrived in Athens soon after and occupied Piraeus. There he was besieged by Polyperchon with a large force. However, Polyperchon's forces lacked adequate supplies, so he was obliged to withdraw a portion of his army. Polyperchon used this army to attempt the reduction of Megalopolis, while Alexander was left in command of the remaining forces in Athens.[5] However, it appears he achieved little, until the treaty and capitulation of Athens to Cassander[6].

Alexander in the Peloponnese

When Polyperchon, baffled at Megalopolis,

Messenian towns, with the exception of Ithome.[11]

Alliances with Antigonus and then Cassander

In the next year, 315 BC,

talents from Antigonus, and a multitude of magnificent promises.[12] Yet, in the very same year, Alexander renounced his alliance with Antigonus and was bribed with the title of governor of the Peloponnese to reconcile himself to Cassander.[13]

Alexander's death

In the ensuing year, 314 BC, Alexander engaged in the siege of

Cyllene on behalf of Cassander. However, this siege was raised[clarification needed] by Aristodemus and his Aetolian allies. After the return of Aristodemus to Aetolia, the citizens of Dyme, in Achaia, besieged the citadel, which was occupied by one of Cassander's garrisons. Alexander forced his way into the city and made himself master of it, punishing the opposing inhabitants with death, imprisonment, or exile.[14] Very soon after this he was murdered at Sicyon by Alexion, a Sicyonian, leaving the command of his forces to his wife Cratesipolis who proved herself fully adequate to the task.[15]

Notes

  1. ^ Diodorus, Bibliotheca, xviii. 48; Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Phocion", 31
  2. ^ Plutarch, 32; Diodorus, xviii. 65
  3. ^ Diodorus, xviii. 65.
  4. ^ Diodorus, xviii. 66; Plutarch, 33–34
  5. ^ Diodorus, xviii. 68
  6. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece,i. 25; Diodorus, xviii. 74
  7. ^ Diodorus, xviii. 72
  8. ^ Diodorus, xix. 35
  9. ^ Pausanias, i. 11; Diodorus, xix. 11
  10. ^ Diodorus, xix. 53
  11. ^ Diodorus, xix. 54
  12. ^ Diodorus, xix. 60, 61
  13. ^ Diodorus, xix. 64
  14. ^ Diodorus, xix. 66
  15. ^ Diodorus, xix. 67

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexander". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. pp. 125–126.

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