ABSTRACT
After the death of Eumenes, the last champion of the Kings of Alexander’s line, we find two great Macedonian powers forming in Asia, that of Antigonos One-eye and that of Seleucos. That of Antigonos was constituted first, immediately after his victory in Gabiene (317). The war which he maintained against the other Diadochi from 316 to 311 ended in failure against Cassandros in Greece, but consecrated his power in Asia as far as Mesopotamia. Seleucos, who had returned to Babylon in 312, had triumphantly held his own there and had in the end conquered the central Satrapies. In the South, the realm of Antigonos touched that of the Lagid, with whom he fought for Southern Syria. Even in Asia Minor, certain regions, such as Pisidia, were not reduced. Zipoetes, who succeeded Bas in Bithynia (between 328 and 325), had attacked the Greek cities of Chalcedon and Astacos (315). They were saved by a stratagem of Antigonos, but Bithynia remained independent. About the time of Ipsus, Cappadocia broke loose from his kingdom.
