ABSTRACT
Antipatros had had good reason to mistrust his son Cassandros, who was haughty, cruel, and violent. He thought it wise to leave him in a state of tutelage until he should have learned, with years, sufficient to take the first rank. He therefore entrusted the Regency, when he was dying, to Polyperchon, one of his old comrades, and one of the oldest officers of Alexander. Cassandros had the title of Chiliarch and the command of the cavalry. But it was inevitable that he would be content neither with the title nor with the command. Once more the Empire was to be torn by division.
