ABSTRACT
After Antipater's death and the appointment of Polyperchon to the regency the position of chiliarchos, or second-in-command, was intolerable for Cassander, and he attempted to stir a revolt against the regent within Macedonia by appealing to his own circle of nobles. The elimination of both kings as well as the two royal women left Polyperchon powerless and Cassander in firm control of Macedonia, though this also emboldened the more powerful Successors, who fought each other in continuous wars throughout this forty-year period, to adopt the title "king" in their respective regions and establish their own dynasties. The Macedonian army had welcomed Olympias' return as wife, mother, and grandmother of Argead kings, and she might have used that veneration for the Argead clan to strengthen her guardianship. Antigonus' presumption posed a threat to the other powerful Successors, and in the spring of 314 Ptolemy sent messengers to both Cassander in Macedonia and Lysimachus in Thrace seeking an alliance.
