👑 Throw back! What happens when a mediocre commander controls an empire? Tune in to find out all about Polyperchon’s rule. #AlexanderStandardPod #Polyperchon #ListenNow www.podbean.com/eas/pb-z7i4u...
Polyperchon
You’ve waited with bated breath, but he’s here! It’s POLYPERCHON! What happens when you give control of a massive empire to a mediocre commander who tries way too hard? And if everyone already knows…
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July 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
👑 Throw back! What happens when a mediocre commander controls an empire? Tune in to find out all about Polyperchon’s rule. #AlexanderStandardPod #Polyperchon #ListenNow www.podbean.com/eas/pb-z7i4u...
⚔️ Throw back! What happens when a mediocre commander controls an empire? Tune in to find out all about Polyperchon’s rule. #AlexanderStandardPod #Polyperchon www.podbean.com/eas/pb-z7i4u...
July 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⚔️ Throw back! What happens when a mediocre commander controls an empire? Tune in to find out all about Polyperchon’s rule. #AlexanderStandardPod #Polyperchon www.podbean.com/eas/pb-z7i4u...
June of 324, #AlexandertheGreat had dispatched #Krateros, along with #Polyperchon as his second-in-command, to lead 10,000 old and/or disabled Macedonian veterans back to Macedon for demobilization.
June 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
June of 324, #AlexandertheGreat had dispatched #Krateros, along with #Polyperchon as his second-in-command, to lead 10,000 old and/or disabled Macedonian veterans back to Macedon for demobilization.
‘The character sketch combines a transhistorical type (a kind of person we have all met) with transient historical detail (the people we meet don’t babble about Hermes or Polyperchon, but we still recognise them as belonging to this type).’
Colin Burrow on character.
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Colin Burrow on character.
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Colin Burrow · Stink of Gin: Character Types
What do we mean when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a person habitually...
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February 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
‘The character sketch combines a transhistorical type (a kind of person we have all met) with transient historical detail (the people we meet don’t babble about Hermes or Polyperchon, but we still recognise them as belonging to this type).’
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The character sketch combines a transhistorical type (a kind of person we have all met) with transient historical detail (the people we meet don’t babble about Hermes or Polyperchon, but we still recognise them as belonging to this type).’
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow · Stink of Gin: Character Types
What do we mean when we call someone a ‘character’? It’s often a way of indicating that a person habitually...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:15 AM
‘The character sketch combines a transhistorical type (a kind of person we have all met) with transient historical detail (the people we meet don’t babble about Hermes or Polyperchon, but we still recognise them as belonging to this type).’
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Burrow on character.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Les guerres des Diadoques. Même les perdants à la Demeteios poliorcète sont brillants.
Bon, on retire quand même Polyperchon de l'équation.
Bon, on retire quand même Polyperchon de l'équation.
July 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Les guerres des Diadoques. Même les perdants à la Demeteios poliorcète sont brillants.
Bon, on retire quand même Polyperchon de l'équation.
Bon, on retire quand même Polyperchon de l'équation.
>Gets named by Antipater to succeed him as regent of the Macedonian Empire
>Fumbles the war against C*ssander
>Kills Alexander’s illegitimate son and his mother
>Disappears from the historical record a few years later
Polyperchon really is an enigma
>Fumbles the war against C*ssander
>Kills Alexander’s illegitimate son and his mother
>Disappears from the historical record a few years later
Polyperchon really is an enigma
June 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
>Gets named by Antipater to succeed him as regent of the Macedonian Empire
>Fumbles the war against C*ssander
>Kills Alexander’s illegitimate son and his mother
>Disappears from the historical record a few years later
Polyperchon really is an enigma
>Fumbles the war against C*ssander
>Kills Alexander’s illegitimate son and his mother
>Disappears from the historical record a few years later
Polyperchon really is an enigma
Source of the Polyperchon image comes from the Alexander movie which I sort of recommend.
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Source of the Polyperchon image comes from the Alexander movie which I sort of recommend.
Polyperchon in the Wars of the Diadochi is so useless. Why did Antipater name him Regent?
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Polyperchon in the Wars of the Diadochi is so useless. Why did Antipater name him Regent?
Captured by the forces of Polyperchon, Olympias and Aeacides of Epirus at Amphipolis, Philip III Arrhidaeus, elder half-brother of Alexander the Great, was executed #OnThisDay in 317BC
December 25, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Captured by the forces of Polyperchon, Olympias and Aeacides of Epirus at Amphipolis, Philip III Arrhidaeus, elder half-brother of Alexander the Great, was executed #OnThisDay in 317BC