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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8249942, member: 118780&quot;]Now that I&#039;m where my books are:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) I looked in Arrian and found nowhere mentioning a hush job by Kassander. Could you please provide the passage?</p><p>2) In terms of Polyperchon reaching peace with Kassander, this is in Diodorus. Book 20, 309/08, 28. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Cassander eventually won Polyperchon over with his plentiful and bountiful promises; he entered into a secret agreement with him and persuaded him to assassinate the king. Once Polyperchon had done away with the young man and was openly working with Cassander, he recovered his estates in Macedon, and in accordance with his agreement with Cassander, was given fourth thousand Macedonian foot soldiers and five hundred Thessalian horsemen.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not actually true. Succession was far more complicated, as Carney details. While kings often favored particular sons, it was never a done deal. Even in Alexander&#039;s case, his succession was far from certain. Only after he assassinated Attalus in Asia Minor and Amyntas IV was he more secure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander and Philip did not have a rosy relationship. Philip II was greatly angered by Alexander&#039;s dispute with Attalos, and by Alexander&#039;s attempt to marry Pixodaros&#039; daughter. His marriage to Kleopatra (not his daughter) was an extreme threat due to a child&#039;s potential greater argead purity. She had a daughter (Europa), but this didn&#039;t prevent both from being murdered by Olympias immediately after Philip&#039;s death.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip II actually took power from Amyntas IV (the primary reason Alexander killed Amyntas), while the succession of Perdikkas III and Alexander II were rumored to have been highly impacted by their mother Eurydike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Macedonian succession was a bit closer to Darwinism. When a king died, it went to the strongest (supposedly also uttered by Alexander III on his death bed). Due to polygamy, the mothers often played a key role in determining who that was, but it was also influenced by other power players and the candidates themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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