Chapter 7 Eumenes and the Silver Shields

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Map of Alexander’s Campaigns viii
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia 9
8. Chapter 2 Alexander and Discontent: Th e King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia 31
9. Chapter 3 Th e Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323) 61
10. Chapter 4 Th e Dissolution of the Royal Army, I: Th e Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus 87
11. Chapter 5 Th e Dissolution of the Royal Army, II: Th e Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus, and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus 119
12. Chapter 6 Th e Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor 145
13. Chapter 7 Eumenes and the Silver Shields 177
14. Chapter 8 Th e Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes’ Death 212
15. Conclusion 237
16. Bibliography 245
17. Index 257