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Animosity between Eumenes and Neoptolemus, allies-turned-enemies, ensured that both desired to decide their cavalry clash by slaying the other. Imbued with mutual hatred equivalent to that of Hector and Achilles before the walls of Troy, their duel proved no less significant.

Even after defeating the Athenian-led revolt of 323 / 322 BC a strong remnant of resistance to Macedonian rule on the Greek mainland remained. One beacon of rebellion still had to be extinguished. The Aetolians.

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In 322 BC, the regent Perdiccas, a military hero and the official protector of Alexander the Great’s family, won the allegiance of the veteran Macedonian Silver Shields. A huge coup for Perdiccas.

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After Meleager, a general, drunkenly berated Alexander the Great 1 night in India, the king replied 'Envious men only torment themselves'. It proved so. Throughout the rest of his reign, Meleager stayed in the shadows of mediocrity and never rose higher

Against all the odds, in late 321 BC the Aetolian League successfully resisted invasion from a huge Macedonian army - the world superpower. Where the likes of historic city-states such as Athens and Sparta had failed, the Aetolians had triumphed

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In 276 BC the Hellenistic king Pyrrhus famously remarked upon departing Sicily, 'Oh what a wrestling ground we are leaving for the Carthaginians and Romans to fight over.' He was proved right when, 12 years later, the First Punic War erupted

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The First War of the Successors was marked by a fierce rivalry between Eumenes and Neoptolemus. They started the conflict as allies; the latter then betrayed the former; they fought two battles against each other, the last of which was marked by a homeric duel. Eumenes won.

Single combat was no novel concept for Alexander the Great's generals. Homeric precedents inspired them since childhood; ‘noble’ duels between figures like Hector and Achilles, Hector and Ajax or Diomedes and Aeneas motivated commanders to slay leading enemies by their own hand

Though he did not accompany Antipater and his 30,000 men to Asian shores during the First Successor War, Lysimachus offered them support as they progressed through southern Thrace en-route to the Hellespont: access to provisions and local guidance seem likely

During the First Successor War, Eumenes rarely used Macedonian soldiers. The key to his victories were his Cappadocian cavalry, loyal to him and highly-skilled horsemen.

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