re: Macedonians in the Peloponnese

[abm]

I didnGÇÖt find anything about a previous connection of Polyperchon in the Peloponnese. To answer the rest of your question I would have to check some details first. IGÇÖll do that when my exams have finished (that will be on February 5th). In the meantime some suggested reading. I donGÇÖt know what youGÇÖve read already and whether you have access to a scholarly library, but I hope this will be of any help:A good starting point is E. WILL, Histoire politique du monde hell+¬nistique (323-30 av. J.C.) vol. I, Nancy 1979. (If you donGÇÖt know French, you can find more or less the same in his articles in The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. VII.1, The Hellenistic World, edd. F.W. WALBANK & A.E. ASTIN, Cambridge 1984, but unfortunately with less details and less references). Other recent overviews of the age of the Diadochoi are W.L. ADAMS, GÇÿThe Successors of AlexanderGÇÖ, in L.A. TRITLE (ed.), The Greek World in the Fourth Century: from the Fall of the Athenian Empire to the Successors of Alexander, London 1997, pp. 228-248, and D. BRAUND, GÇÿAfter Alexander: the Emergence of the Hellenistic World, 323-281GÇÖ, in A. ERSKINE (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Oxford 2003, pp. 19-34, but these provide less details then WillGÇÖs book.There are three books on Cassander: M. FORTINA, Cassandro, re di Macedonia, Torino 1965;
W.L. ADAMS, Cassander, Macedonia, and the Policy of Coalition, 323-301 B.C., diss. University of Virginia 1974; F. LANDUCCI GATTINONI, LGÇÖarte del potere. Vita e opere di Cassandro di Macedonia (Historia Einzelschriften 171), Stuttgart 2003. AdamsGÇÖ is unpublished, but it is available at University Microfimls International and thus some libraries have it. There is also a dissertation by J. Champion (University of Western Australia 1994, if I recall it correctly), but I donGÇÖt know whether it is possible to get hold of that.There are no books on Polyperchon, but for AlexanderGÇÖs time you could of course check H. BERVE, Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage, M++nchen 1926 and W. HECKEL, The Marshals of AlexanderGÇÖs Empire, London 1992. The articles GÇÿPolyperchonGÇÖ, GÇÿKassandrosGÇÖ, and GÇÿMegalopolisGÇÖ in the Real-Encyclop+ñdie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft might still prove helpful. W. HECKEL, The Last Days and Testament of Alexander the Great. A Prosopographic Study (Historia Einzelschriften 56), Stuttgart 1988, might also be interesting on the War between Polyperchon and Cassander.

[ruthaki]

Thanks very much for taking the time to post this info, Alexander. I appreciate it. When I'm in Greece I have had access to scholarly libraries but unfortunately here at home I have to rely on the public system. However, I'll check out a few of these which might be accessible. I've done a lot of previous research but there were just the odd things I wasn't totally clear about. This forum is certainly helpful in that respect! thanks again, ruthaki

[abm]

Hi Ruth,i'm afraid you won't find much of these in public libraries. There is a 2002 reprint of Will's book which afordable and certainly worth purchasing if you are interested in the political history of the Hellenistic World, although a book written in the seventies is outdated on some points of course.regards,
abm

[ruthaki]

I remembered my friend works at the university book store and has access to texts etc so I am going to ask her if she can obtain some of these books for me. She has in the past, and can often get them at a reduced price. Thanks again.