Perdiccas

Perdiccas was a senior Macedonian officer and regent after the death of Alexander the Great. His attempt to control the empire in the name of Alexander’s heirs triggered early conflicts among the Successors.

In Mary Renault’s Funeral Games, Perdiccas attempts to preserve the empire under the nominal kingship of Philip III and the unborn child of Roxana, while generals, infantry leaders and royal women compete to control the settlement. Robert Fabbri’s To the Strongest places Perdiccas within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Other novels featuring Perdiccas include Robert Fabbri’s The Three Paradises.

In non-fiction, Perdiccas is discussed in Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20 and Quintus Curtius Rufus’s The History of Alexander. In Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20, the settlement at Babylon, the Lamian War, the regencies of Perdiccas and Antipater, the campaigns of Eumenes and Antigonus, the struggles involving Olympias and Cassander.