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or left, where they might have done immense damage, this roaring tide of
men simply rode straight on.”
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1. On these events, beginning with the death of Antipater (Cassander’s
father) in the autumn of 319, see the now canonical synthesis in Will
1979–82: i, 45–54. For an analysis of the various passages in Diodorus 18
that deal with these events, see Landucci Gattinoni 2008, with expansive
discussion of the main issues and full bibliography. A section of the introduction
and a special table are devoted to problems of chronology, and
chronological matters are discussed throughout the commentary itself.
2. On Olympias, see, most recently, Carney 2006.
3. All dates are B.C., unless otherwise stated.
4. On Philip III Arrhidaeus, see, most recently, Heckel 2006: 52–53,
and a series of recent historical-historiographic commentaries: Greenwalt
1984: 69–77; Bosworth 1992a: 55–81; Sharples 1994: 53–60; Carney 2001:
63–89; Funke 2005: 45–56; on Eurydice, see observations in Carney
2000a: 132–37 (elaborating upon and updating Carney 1987: 496–502)
and Heckel 2006: 4–5.
5. On Cassander’s conduct, Olympias’ murder included, see Landucci
Gattinoni 2003a: 27–56.
6. On Roxane, see Heckel 2006: 241–42.
7. On Philip II’s marriages, see Athen. 13.557c–d, mentioning both
Nicesipolis and the birth of Thessalonice; on Thessalonice’s birth, see
also Steph. Byz. s.v. Θεσσαλονίκη. For the investigation of Philip II’s
polygamy, see the bibliography in Carney 1988b: 386, n. 3; particularly
pertinent observations are also to be found in Prestianni Giallombardo
1976–77: 81–110; Tronson 1984: 116–26; and Greenwalt
1989: 19–45.
8. In the light of the noble Thessalian origins of Nicesipolis and
Philip’s habit of sanctioning his cultural and territorial precedence over
peoples of diverse origin through marriages, some scholars (Ellis 1976:
84; Hammond and Griffi th 1979: 524; Green 1982: 143) have justly
determined upon 352 as the terminus post quem for Thessalonice’s
birth. This was the year in which Philip succeeded in becoming tagus of
the Thessalians, thus combining in his person both the pan-Thessalian
tagia and the Macedonian monarchy, and pulling Thessaly too into the
Macedonian political and military sphere of infl uence (on the relationship
between Philip and Thessaly, see Sordi 1958: 261–301; Hammond
and Griffi th 1979: 259–95 and 523–44; Errington 1990: 59–70; Sordi
1996: 88–92).