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Perdiccas

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Perdiccas (died 321 BC)

Macedonian general. On the death of Alexander the Great, he sought to gain central control of Alexander's empire, but in the struggle for power between the Diadochi he was opposed by the generals Antipater, Antigonus, Craterus, and Ptolemy. His soldiers were incited to mutiny by Ptolemy and they murdered him.



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I believe that Periander or Perdiccas or Xerxes or Ismenias the Theban, or some other rich and mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the first to say that justice is `doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.
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