EUMENES

yooˈmĭnēz, c.361–316 b.c., secretary to Philip II of Macedon and to Alexander the Great. A Thracian Greek, he was capable, diplomatic, and eloquent and proved himself able as a general as well as a secretary. After Alexander's death he was given control of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia. In the wars of the Diadochi he threw in his lot with Perdiccas and thus was opposed by Antipater, Antigonus I, Ptolemy I, and Craterus. However, the death of Perdiccas (321 b.c.) deprived Eumenes of all dependable support. He was defeated in 316 b.c. by Antigonus, deserted by his troops, and killed.

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Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek among Macedonians
Book by Edward M. Anson; Brill Academic Publishers, 2004
Subjects: Eumenes--Of Cardia--Ca. 361-316 B.C, Generals--Greece--Biography, Greece--History--Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C, Macedonia--History--Diadochi, 323-276 B.C
EUMENES OF CARDIA ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND...Switzerland L. Troiani, Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy EUMENES OF CARDIA A Greek among Macedonians BY EDWARD M...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anson, Edward. Eumenes of Cardia : a Greek among Macedonians / by Edward M. Anson...
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Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
Book by Philip A. Stadter; Routledge, 1992
...4 HISTORY AND ARTIFICE IN PLUTARCHS EUMENES 56 A...situation which Thucydides ignored. The Eumenes presents quite different problems of...biographical corpus of information on Eumenes, which would have been first recorded...
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The Roman War of Antiochos the Great
Book by John D. Grainger; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Antiochus--Iii--King Of Syria--Ca. 242-187 B.C, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C, Syria--History--333 B.C.-634 A.D, Syrian War, 192-188 B.C
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The Histories of Polybius - Vol. 2
Book by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh; Macmillan, 1889
Subjects: Greece--History, History, Ancient, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
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The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books Thirty-One to Forty
Book by J. C. Yardley, Livy; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C
...Philetaerus. But this man, and his successors, Eumenes I and Attalus I, asserted their independence...the protection of the Seleucid kings. Eumenes I of Pergamum had already attained a...bride Apame, daughter of Spitamenes. Eumenes II for Attalus had died during the Second...
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Idumaean Ostraca and Early Hellenistic Chronology
Journal article by Edward Anson; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Ancient Greek civilization--Research, Chronology--Research, Civilization, Greek--Research, Hellenism--Research, Lemaire, Andre--Works
...this area at this time would have been that of Eumenes of Cardia (Diod. 19.12). Eumenes, who had been appointed "Royal General in Asia...east with Antigonus and his forces in pursuit. Eumenes spent the winter of 317/316 in Babylonia, while...
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The London Apprentice Riots of the 1590s and the Fiction of Thomas Deloney
Journal article by Mihoko Suzuki; Criticism, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Apprenticeship--History, Deloney, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., England--Social aspects, Social conflict--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...rises in station: "This man was Captaine generall to Artaxerxes, King of Persia, whose father was notwithstanding a Cobler.... Eumenes was also a famous Captaine to Alexander the great, whose father was no other then a Carter" (53). Despite the historical remoteness...
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Imaginatively Public: The English Experience of Art as Heritage Property
Journal article by Joseph L. Sax; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Cultural property protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Cultural property, Protection of--Laws, regulations and rules
...MODERN MUSEUM IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PARIS 6 (1994). As an example of different statements about museum origins, "in 170 BC Eumenes II created what was effectively a museum." THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH COLLECTING: RECEPTIONS OF ITALIAN ART IN THE TUDOR AND...
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The Killer Within: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the Roman World
Journal article by Sarah Currie; Differences, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...to foster its application to killing with a weapon. 11 Livy is referring to Evander who tried to kill King Eumenes of Samothrace. Juvenal alludes to Milo, the alleged murderer of the popular politician and archenemy of Cicero, Clodius...
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"Three Mortal Hour/i~s": Female Gothic in Joyce's "The Dead
Journal article by Kelly Anspaugh; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 31, 1994
Subjects: Gothic literature--Technique, Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Dead (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...perhaps, patriarchal crimes against women. Not to be confused with the hideous harpies, the Furies or Eumenides (from the Greek eumenes, "loving, well-disposed") are in fact quite beautiful, which would make the correspondence with Joyces women all the more apt...


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encyclopedia articles on: Eumenes  - 9 results

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Eumenes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EUMENES yoo minez, c.361 316 b.c., secretary to Philip II of Macedon and to Alexander the Great. A Thracian Greek, he was capable...opposed by Antipater , Antigonus I , Ptolemy I , and Craterus. However, the death of Perdiccas (321 b.c.) deprived Eumenes of all dependable support. He was defeated in 316 b.c. by Antigonus, deserted by his troops, and killed...
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Eumenes II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EUMENES II fl. 2d cent. b.c., son of Attalus I, king of Pergamum (197 159 b.c.). He managed to expand the wealth and prestige...plotting with the enemy. Only his death prevented a war between Pergamum and Rome. A vigorous ruler and an adept politician, Eumenes II helped make Pergamum an important cultural center, which included a library that was second only to that of Alexandria...
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Diadochi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...scramble. Chief among them were Antipater , Perdiccas , Eumenes , Craterus, Antigonus ( Antigonus I ), Ptolemy ( Ptolemy...in effect if not in name, to which Antipater also had claim. Eumenes supported Perdiccas, while Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Craterus...
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Antigonus I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Craterus, supported Antigonus in 321 against Perdiccas and Eumenes . In the wars of the Diadochi , Antigonus was the leading...of Asia Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia at the time (316) when Eumenes was murdered. His great power, however, ultimately caused...
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Perseus , King of Macedon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...eventually bringing about the latters execution by Philip V. As king, his involvement in Greek politics excited the fears of Eumenes II of Pergamum , who, thinking that Pergamums position was being endangered, went to Rome to provoke war against Perseus...
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