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events is reestablished in the corresponding prologue by Pompeius Trogus
(Pomp.Trog. Prol.15: ut Cassander in Macedonia fi lium Alexandri
regis interfecit, ac alterum Polyperchon; on Justin’s misinterpretation, see
in particular Schachermeyr 1920: 332–37, whose conclusions, already accepted
by Tarn 1921: 18–28, are reechoed in Wheatley 1998, 19, n. 31).
43. On the identifi cation of the male remains in Tomb III with Alexander
IV see, for example, Hammond 1982: 116; Green 1982: 132–33; Andronicos
1984: 231; Adams 1991: 27–33; Andronicos 1994: 166. For a brief recap of
the status quaestionis on the three royal tombs at the Great Tumulus of
Vergina, see above, n. 15.
44. Adams 1991: 27–33.
45. On the Babylonian Chronicle, which constitutes the foundation
for most modern reconstructions of royal chronologies for the years
immediately following Alexander III’s death, see observations in Landucci
Gattinoni 2007: 29–54, with full discussion of bibliography.
46. See Adams 1991: 30: “After all, sooner or later someone would
wonder what had happened to the boy . . . . As a terminus post quem, the
Babylonian Chronicle records the fi rst regnal year of Seleucus Nikator as
306/5, and Alexander’s death or the offi cial announcement of it was the
necessary precondition to that, which also fi ts in with the assumption of
the royal titles by Antigonus, Demetrius and Ptolemy . . . Thus, we have
a fairly tight timeframe for the offi cial burial and hence for Tomb III.”
47. On the datelines rendering Tomb III more recent than Tomb II, see
Andronicos 1984: 224; the same opinion is also expressed at Touratsoglou
1995: 237. Borza and Palagia 2007: 117 simply date the burial of
Alexander IV to 311/10 B.C. (or shortly thereafter) without comment or
discussion.
48. On the refoundation of the League of Corinth see, most recently,
Landucci Gattinoni 2000: 211–25, with full discussion of existing bibliography.
49. On the so-called Tyre proclamation see Landucci Gattinoni 2003a:
81 and n. 137.
50. On funeral rites in metropolitan and suburban Greece see
D’Agostino 1996: 435–69; on Macedonian royal tradition in particular,
see Borza 1990: 256–76.
51. Hom. Iliad. 23.1–35; on Patroclus’ obsequies see Schnapp Gourbeillon
1982: 77–88.
52. See Diod. 17.2.1; Just. 11.2.1; on Alexander’s initial actions see
Hammond and Walbank 1988: 3–12.
53. See Diod. 19.52.5; on the funerals for Philip III Arrhidaeus and his
wife Eurydice see also Diyllus, FGrH 73 F 1.
54. On the fate of Cassander’s family in general see Landucci Gattinoni
2003a: 79–87; see also Just.16.1.15–19, a detailed passage in which the