ABSTRACT
A LEXANDER the Great, dying in Babylon, left his ring to his favourite general Perdiccus, with the inscription that it was for 1/ he who is worthiest."
Perdiccus, therefore, became Regent, and there was a conference of generals held in order to decide how the empire was to be divided up among the most powerful of them. Philip, the brother of Alexander, was nominally King, but was not present; the generals argued the question of the dismemberment of the empire while the body of the great conqueror lay unburied and forgotten. It was only nine years since he had crossed the Hellespont and into those nine years he had compressed all the colour and the tumult and the great deeds that has made his name live through the ages.
