ABSTRACT
Government under Alexander and the Successors The Macedonian army under Alexander proved superior to all opposition. The achievements of conquest were consolidated from the beginning by foundations of Greek cities. But the effort of conquest was costly for Macedon: even by the end of Alexander’s reign it was clear that his homeland could not be treated as an inexhaustible source of manpower.1 Greek mercenaries were used in Alexander’s campaigns of conquest and as settlers in his city foundations.2 And from the beginning there were Greeks entrusted with administrative work. Eumenes of Cardia even managed, with a certain degree of ruthless opportunism, to use his position to carve out for himself a corner in the succession to Alexander.
