Game of Successors, Part 3: The Partition of Babylon

Another great blog about what happened to Alexander’s empire after his death.

Forward to the Past

With Meleager’s revolt ended and the Macedonian succession issue momentarily solved, Perdiccas at last had the chance to focus his attention to matters outside of Babylon. He must have been dismayed by what he saw. The empire was in disarray; news of Alexander’s death had spread, resulting in disorder and unrest in some of the satrapies; and still other satrapies had been without a formal leader for some time. He could see that, if the empire was to survive under his regency, something had to be done.

As he had done in the wake of Alexander’s death, he returned to the idea of a council to address the situation. This time, its goal would be to partition and reorganize the provinces. He intended the result to benefit the empire, but it’s likely that he hoped it would benefit him as well. After all, he could portray the partitioned satrapies…

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It’s Alive!

Monkey business from Xina Marie Uhl.

Yes, I am resurrecting my blog from the dead. Lazarus, come forth! I am not so sure about this header photo, but it is a bit quirky and has books on it. Plus it gives the illusion that I look like the woman on the bed, which I most assuredly do not.

I have decided to change the focus of my blog from an unfocused mishmash of travel posts and writing/marketing ideas to something near and dear to my writer’s heart:

RESEARCH.

Ah, research. I could spend my life on you if I had all the time in the world. Now, on the face of things you might be saying, “How boring!” But, my friend, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Case in point being this article from the June 15, 1908 edition of Perth, Australia’s The Daily News:

Now don’t tell me that rampaging monkeys released by…

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