Perdiccas

Family: Macedonian · Role: general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 6

Life events

• Perdiccas was driven from Egypt and assassinated by his bodyguard.(Book 1 · Chapter 6 · 📍 Egypt)
  • “But having been thrust out of Egypt, and consequently losing his former prestige as a general, and having incurred odium among the Macedonians on other grounds, he was assassinated by his bodyguard.”

Book 1 · Chapter 6

• enemies with Ptolemy (son of Lagus) “but, feeling sure that Perdiccas would go to war with him, he filled Egypt with garrisons”
• with Alexander (son of Alexander) (Perdiccas led Alexander with him during the expedition.) “Perdiccas, to give a specious colour to his expedition, led about with him Aridæus the son of Philip, and the lad Alexander, the son of Alexander by Roxana the daughter of Oxyartes”

Also listed in Macedonian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.