Bibliotheca Historica

​The following are contained in the eighteenth of the books of Diodorus: 1. The disturbance and sedition that arose in the forces after the death of Alexander. 2. Perdiccas’ assumption of the administration of the kingdom, and the division of the satrapies. 3. The revolt of the Greeks in the upper satrapies, and the dispatch of the general Peithon against them. 4. A description of the geography of Asia and the satrapies within it. 5. How Peithon subdued the revolted Greeks. 6. How the Athenians declared war against Antipater, which was called the Damian War. 7. How Leosthenes, having been appointed general and having assembled a force, defeated Antipater in battle and shut him up in the city of Lamia. 8. The death of the general Leosthenes, and his funeral oration. 9. The taking over of the satrapies by those to whom they had been allotted. 10. The cavalry battle of the Greeks against Leonnatus, and the victory of the Greeks. 1. How Antipater, after Leonnatus was slain in the battle, took over the force of Leonnatus. 2. How Cleitus, the admiral of the Macedonians, defeated the Greeks in two naval battles. 3. How Perdiccas, having defeated King Ariarathes in a great pitched battle, took the king alive along with many others. 4. How Craterus, having come to the aid of Antipater, defeated the Greeks and ended the Lamian War. 5. On the actions taken by Antipater toward the Athenians and the other Greeks. 6. On the things done by Ptolemy in the war concerning Cyrene. 7. How Perdiccas, having invaded Pisidia, enslaved the Larandians, and having besieged the Isaurians, forced them to slaughter themselves and burn their city. 8. The campaign of Antipater and Craterus into Aetolia. 9. The transport of Alexander’s body from Babylon to Alexandria, and a description of the luxury of the funeral carriage. 10. How Eumenes, having defeated Craterus in a pitched battle, slew him and Neoptolemus in the fight. 1. How Perdiccas, having campaigned against Egypt, was assassinated by his friends. 2. How Peithon was chosen guardian of the kings, and Arrhidaeus with him, and later Antipater. 3. How Antipater, having been appointed supreme commander of the whole empire, distributed the satrapies anew at Triparadeisus in Syria. 4. How Antigonus, having been appointed general by Antipater, defeated Eumenes. 5. On Eumenes and the extraordinary changes of fortune that befell him. 6. How Ptolemy acquired both Phoenicia and Coele-Syria. 7. How Antigonus defeated Alcetas in a brilliant pitched battle. 8. The death of Antipater, and the taking over of the royal power by Polyperchon. 9. How Antigonus, elated by the death of Antipater and by his own achievements, laid claim to the kingship. 11. The extraordinary rise of Eumenes, and his assumption of the guardianship of the kings and of the Macedonian force. 1. The rise of Cassander, his war against Polyperchon the guardian of the kings, and his alliance with Antigonus. 2. How Eumenes, having taken over the Silver-shields in Cilicia, departed for the upper satrapies and assembled a noteworthy force. 3. On Eumenes’ shrewdness and generalship, and his deeds up to his death. 4. The events concerning Cassander in Attica, and Nicanor who was guarding Munychia. 5. The death of Phocion, who was called ‘the Good’. 6. How Polyperchon, having besieged the Megalopolitans and having both suffered and inflicted many losses, returned empty-handed. 7. How Cleitus, the admiral of Polyperchon, defeated Nicanor, the admiral of Cassander, in a naval battle. 8. How Antigonus, having brilliantly defeated Cleitus in a naval battle, gained the mastery of the sea. 9. How Eumenes, having been shut up by Seleucus near Babylon and brought into the ultimate dangers, was saved through his own shrewdness. 12. How Polyperchon, having been despised by the Greeks and humbled, continued the war against Cassander.