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Eumenes of Cardia
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Eumenes of Cardia (c. 360–316 BC)

Macedonian general. He was at an early age employed as private secretary by Philip II of Macedon, and, after Philip's death, by Alexander the Great. In the division of the Macedonian empire that followed Alexander's death 323 BC, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, and Pontus were assigned to Eumenes. He defeated the Macedonian general Craterus 321, but was himself defeated and slain by the general Antigonus 316 BC.

Eumenes was born in Cardia in the Thracian Chersonesus (now ‘the Chersonese’).



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