Partition of Triparadisus

{{Short description|321 BC power-sharing agreement between the generals of Alexander the Great}}

The Partition of Triparadisus was a power-sharing agreement passed at Triparadisus in 321 BC between the generals (Diadochi) of Alexander the Great, in which they named a new regent and arranged the repartition of the satrapies of Alexander's empire among themselves.{{cite book |chapter=Chapter LVII. Partition of Triparadisus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzoNAAAAIAAJ |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wzoNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA245 |pages=245–246 |title=The History of Greece |via=Google Books |volume=VII |publication-place=London, United Kingdom |first=Connop |last=Thirlwall |publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans |year=1852 }}{{sfn|Pitt|2016|loc=[https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23486/1/Pitt_whole_thesis.pdf#page=42 Chapter 2: Methodology]|p=34}}{{sfn|Pitt|2016|loc=[https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23486/1/Pitt_whole_thesis.pdf#page=10 Chapter 1: Introduction]|p=2}} It followed and modified the Partition of Babylon made in 323 BC upon Alexander's death.{{cite conference |date=1 November 2016 |title=On the Duration of Empires |first=Kevin |last=Sylwester |url=https://business.siu.edu/_common/documents/econ-papers/Sylwester_Kevin_On-the-Duration-of-Empires.pdf |publication-place=DeKalb, Illinois, United States |publisher=Northern Illinois University (NIU)/Southern Illinois University (SIU) |department=NIU Department of Economics/SIU School of Analytics, Finance and Economics |chapter=Appendix: Documentation Regarding Empires |page=37 |chapter-url=https://business.siu.edu/_common/documents/econ-papers/Sylwester_Kevin_On-the-Duration-of-Empires.pdf#page=37 |access-date=21 February 2022 |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417152410/https://business.siu.edu/_common/documents/econ-papers/Sylwester_Kevin_On-the-Duration-of-Empires.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite thesis |title=Exploitation of Diversity: Seleucid Strategy of Cultural Interaction in Mesopotamia, 311 - 261 BC |first=Jonathan C. |last=Tao |publisher=University of Chicago (UC) |doi=10.6082/uchicago.3204 |type=MSc |editor1-first=Catherine |editor1-last=Kearns |editor2-first=Sarath |editor2-last=Pillai |date=1 August 2021 |url=https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3204/files/Exploitation%20of%20Diversity%3A%20Seleucid%20Strategy%20of%20Cultural%20Interaction%20in%20Mesopotamia%2C%20311%20-%20261%20BC.pdf |department=UC Social Sciences Division |publication-place=Chicago, Illinois, United States |chapter-url=https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3204/files/Exploitation%20of%20Diversity%3A%20Seleucid%20Strategy%20of%20Cultural%20Interaction%20in%20Mesopotamia%2C%20311%20-%20261%20BC.pdf#page=10 |page=8 |chapter=1. Religious Networks of Collaboration: Temple Elite and Scribal Community }}

Following the death of Alexander, the rule of his empire was given to his half-brother Philip Arrhidaeus and Alexander's son Alexander IV.{{sfn|Pitt|2016|loc=[https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23486/1/Pitt_whole_thesis.pdf#page=35 Chapter 2: Methodology]|p=27}} However, since Philip was mentally ill and Alexander IV born only after the death of his father, a regent was named as Perdiccas; in the meantime, the former generals of Alexander were named satraps of the various regions of his empire.{{sfn|Siculus|1933|loc=[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/18A*.html Book XVIII]|pp=5-87}}

Several satraps were eager to gain more power, and when Ptolemy I Soter, satrap of Egypt, rebelled with other generals, Perdiccas moved against the former but was killed by a mutiny in his camp. Ptolemy declined the regency and instead brought to the office Peithon and Arrhidaeus. This designation met the strong opposition of Eurydice, wife of Philip III. In the meeting called in 321 BC at Triparadisus of all the generals, Antipater was chosen to be a new regent.{{sfn|Siculus|1933|loc=[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/20B*.html Book XX]|pp=191-263}} The meeting also proceeded to divide again the satrapies between the various generals.{{cite book |via=Google Books |series=Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World |title=Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean |chapter=Chapter 6. The Defence of Egypt in the Fourth Century BC: Forts and Sundry Failures |pages=111–134 |doi=10.1163/9789004413740_007 |isbn=9789004413740 |volume=3 |date=13 November 2019 |first=Alan B. |last=Lloyd |editor1-first=Jeremy |editor1-last=Armstrong |editor2-first=Matthew |editor2-last=Trundle |lccn=2019040236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmzDDwAAQBAJ |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmzDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 |publisher=Brill Publishers |s2cid=213260321 |publication-place=Leiden, Netherlands }}