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1. Although often speculative, J. Hornblower 1981, 5–17, remains the
best account of Hieronymus’ career. See also Jacoby FGrH IIC no. 154,
544–45; Brown 1947; Bosworth 2002: 25–26, 172–73, 188–89, 206–07.
Diodorus’ use of sources other than Hieronymus: Seibert 1983: 2–11,
32–36. Diodorus’ use of Duris: e.g., Landucci Gattinoni 1997: 169–204;
2008, xii–xxiv; but also Simonetti-Agostinetti 1997: 209–26, in favor of
Hieronymus as the chief source of, inter alia, the anti-Antigonus passages.
Hieronymus as the source of other accounts of the period: Seibert
1983: 42–43; Geiger 1995: 178–81. Against viewing Diodorus as a slave of
his sources: Sacks 1990; Green 2006: 23–24.
2. For a recent discussion of the exiles decree, see Dmitrieve 2004.
3. Diodorus in praise of euergesia: e.g., 13.27.1; 20.93.6–7; 31.3.
1–3; Sacks 1990, esp. 43 n 82, 68–70, 78–79, 103. See Hornblower
1981: 269, for Diodorus’ language, although she thinks (209–10) that
in this passage he borrowed the concepts of euergesia and eunoia from
Hieronymus.
4. Cf. Diod. 18.55.1–2; 20.102.1; Rosen 1967: 51; Hornblower 1981:
152; Flower 2000: 127. I am not persuaded by the argument that Diodorus
used a source other than Hieronymus for the Lamian War: e.g., Sordi
2002: 433–43, 463–75.
5. Diod. 19.17.5–6 erroneously calls the river Tigris.
6. See Bosworth 1992b: 68 (although he thinks that Plutarch exaggerated
Peucestas’ negative portrait in his Eumenes); Schäfer 2002, e.g. 156;
Anson 2004: 9.
7. Schäfer 2002: 138–9, and Anson 2004: 167, accept Diodorus’ account.
Schäfer stresses Eumenes’ military vulnerability at this point,
which actually puts Peucestas’ action in an even better light.
8. See, e.g., Diod. 18.39.7, 41.4–7; 19.48.3–4. Hieronymus’ criticism
of his former patrons Antigonus and his son Demterius was never harsh
and I see little hindrance for him to include it, as well as his preferential
treatment of Eumenes, in his history, especially if he published it under
Antigonus Gonatas; cf. also Hornblower 1981: 228–32; Simonetti-Agostinetti
n.1 above.
9. Arr. Succ. 1.44–45. Cf. Eumenes’ stratagem of preventing his troops
from capturing Antigonus’ baggage: Plut. Eum. 9.6–12. Arrian’s sources:
e.g., Simonetti Agostinneti 1993: 16–19.
10. Hieronymus’ involvement: Plut. Eum. 12.2; Diod. 18.42.1, 50.4.
11. Plut. Eum. 10.3–8. Although Diodorus and Plutrach give different
versions of later negotiations between Eumenes and Antigonus,
Diodorus’ account of this episode in 18.41.6–7 is briefer rather than
different from Plutarch. Hence, I cannot share Anson’s suggestion that