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Partition of Babylon and Macedonian Succession
323–320 BCE
Alexander died in Babylon without a capable adult heir. Infantry leaders supported his half-brother Arrhidaeus, while senior officers waited to see whether Roxana would give birth to a son.
The settlement recognised Philip III and the infant Alexander IV as joint kings while Perdiccas became regent and senior commanders received provinces. The arrangement concealed rather than resolved competition among the successors.
Funeral Games begins inside this succession crisis and follows the way royal women, generals and soldiers turn nominal loyalty to Alexander's house into a struggle for control of the empire.
Related people for Partition of Babylon and Macedonian Succession
Alexander of Lyncestisc. 5th century BCE–331 BCE Alexander the Great357 BCE–324 BCE Antigonus I Monophthalmusc. 382–301 BCE Antipater398 BCE–320 BCE Bagoasc. 5th century BCE–c. 4th century BCE Cassander356 BCE–297 BCE Darius III381 BCE–331 BCE Eurydice II of Macedon337 BCE–318 BCE Hephaestionc. 356 BCE–324 BCE Olympias376 BCE–317 BCE Parmenion401 BCE–330 BCE Perdiccas366 BCE–322 BCE Philip III of Macedon360 BCE–318 BCE Philip II of Macedonc. 382–336 BCE Ptolemy I Soter369/368–282 BCE Roxana348 BCE–311 BCE
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