{"slug": "polyperchon", "label": "Polyperchon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyperchon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312008", "qid": "Q312008", "description": "Macedonian general", "entries": 12, "years": 9, "span": [-318, -308], "span_label": ["319 BCE", "309 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cassander", "label": "Cassander", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "olympias", "label": "Olympias", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "epirus", "label": "Epirus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aetolia", "label": "Aetolia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sicyon", "label": "Sicyon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -318, "year_label": "319 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Antipater becomes ill and dies shortly after, leaving the regency of the Macedonian Empire to the aged Polyperchon, passing over his son Cassander, a measure which gives rise to much confusion and ill-feeling.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1222246653#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "319 BC", "revid": 1222246653, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander, who has allied himself with Ptolemy and Antigonus, declares war on the regent, Polyperchon. Most of the Greek states support him, including Athens. Cassander further effects an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "After capturing Athens from Macedonia's regent Polyperchon, Cassander entrusts the government of Athens to the Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, Demetrius Phalereus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Polyperchon flees to Epirus, where he joins Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, Alexander's widow Roxana, and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV. He forms an alliance with Olympias, who is acting as regent for Alexander IV, and King Aeacides of Epirus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander returns from the Peloponnesus and defeats Macedonia's regent Polyperchon in battle. Cassander blockades Olympias, mother of the late Alexander the Great, in Pydna, where she surrenders. Cassander takes Roxana and her son Alexander IV of Macedon into his custody.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Polyperchon is appointed general of the Peloponnesus", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Aristodemus of Miletus, by order of Antigonus, sails to Laconia, where he receives permission from the Spartans to recruit 8000 mercenaries. He also meets Alexander and Polyperchon, thus establishing friendship between them and Antigonus", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -313, "year_label": "314 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Alexander, son of Polyperchon, is killed by Alexion of Sicyon. Alexander's wife Cratesipolis assumes power and holds his army together.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240408#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "314 BC", "revid": 1242240408, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Becoming tired of Macedonian rule, the people of Epirus recall their former king Aeacides (who until then had been campaigning with his old ally Polyperchon in the Peloponnese). Cassander immediately sends an army against him under his brother Philip, who is diverted from invading Aetolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aristodemus and his mercenary army (recruited the year prior) cross over to the Peloponnese and fight Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, at Cyllene, and liberate Patrae and Aegium from Cassander's garrisons. Aristodemus then returns to Aetolia, leaving a sizeable force in the Pelopponese who help the city of Dyme eject its garrison, despite a failed intervention by Alexander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Telesphorus arrives in to the Peloponnese and starts expelling Cassander's garrisons. He successfully liberates all cities and towns that are being held for Cassander by Polyperchon and his son Alexander; all except Sicyon and Corinth who are being defended by Polyperchon and Alexander themselves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus attempts to renew his alliance with the Macedonian general and former regent Polyperchon, who still controls part of the Peloponnesus. He sends Heracles, the illegitimate son of Alexander the Great, to Polyperchon to be treated as a pretender to the throne of Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#Greece", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}