Conference of Triparadeisos
At the Triparadeisus Conference in 320 BC BC (especially in older research often dated to the year 321 BC), the winners of the first Diadoch war ( Diadoches = Greek 'successor') established a new distribution of power for the Alexander Empire after the death of the imperial regent Perdiccas . They modified it immediately after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Babylonian imperial order agreed upon .
At this conference, which took place in the Syrian Triparadeisos near the sources of the Orontes , Antipatros was appointed the new regent of the empire, as well as a bodyguard corps ( somatophylakes ) for the kings Philip III. Arrhidaios and Alexander IV. Aigos formed.
Furthermore, the provinces ( satrapies ) of the empire were reorganized . The list given here is based on the so-called "Triparadeisos list" of the historian Arrian ( Tà metà Aléxandron FGrHist 156 F9 §§34–38). Lieutenants marked with an asterisk * have already been confirmed in their provinces in the Babylonian Empire.
| Governor (satrap) | province |
| Antipater * | Macedonia and Illyria |
| Lysimachus * | Thrace |
| Antigonos Monophthalmos * | Phrygia , Lycaonia , Lycia , Pisidia and Pamphylia |
| Asandros * | Caria |
| Arrhidaios | Kleinphrygien ("Hellespontisches Phrygien") |
| Clitus the White | Lydia |
| Nikanor | Cappadocia |
| Ptolemy * | Egypt |
| Laomedon * | Syria |
| Philoxenus | Cilicia |
| Orontes ? | Armenia |
| Seleucus | Babylon |
| Amphimachus | Mesopotamia and Arbelitis |
| Antigen | Susia |
| Peithon | Large media ("lower media") |
| Atropates * | Small media ("upper media" or "atropatene") |
| Peukestas * | Persis |
| Philip * | Parthia |
| Stasanor | Bactria and Sogdia |
| Stasandros | Areia and Drangiana |
| Tlepolemos * | Carmania |
| Sibyrtios * | Arachosia and Gedrosia |
| Oxyartes * | Gandhara and Paropamisads |
| Eudemos *, Taxiles * and Poros | Punjab ("Upper India") |
| Peithon * | Indus Delta ("lower India") |
literature
- Hans-Joachim Gehrke : History of Hellenism (= Oldenbourg ground plan of history . Vol. 1B). 3rd, revised edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58785-2 , pp. 35, 164 f.
- Hilmar Klinkott : The Satrapienregister of the Alexander and Diadochenzeit (= Historia . Individual writings. H. 145). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07701-4 , p. 67 ff.
- Jürgen Malitz : From Alexander to Cleopatra. The political story. In: Gregor Weber (Ed.): Cultural history of Hellenism. From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-608-94126-5 , pp. 13-55, in particular 27 f. ( Text with annotations as PDF ).
Web links
- Arrian of Nicomedia: The settlement at Triparadisus . In: Livius.org (English)