Hieronymus of Cardia
Hieronymus of Cardiahistorian and statesman, was in the entourage of his fellow Cardian (and relative?) Eumenes, acting as his emissary at the siege of Nora (319/18 BC) and passing to the court of Antigonus the One-eyed after Eumenes' death at the battle of Gabiene (316). He served with Antigonus in Syria (312/1) and at the battle of Ipsus (301), and under Demetrius Poliorcetes (‘the Besieger’) governed Thebes after its revolt in 293. He ended his days with Antigonus Gonatas. His great history spanned the period from Alexander the Great's death (323) to at least the death of Pyrrhus (272). It was Diodorus Siculus' authority for Greek affairs in bks. 18–20, and was used extensively by Plutarch, Arrian, and Justin. The extant fragments only hint at its...
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