Eumenes 3: Loyalty
How far are you willing to go for what you believe in? Eumenes of Kardia had the choice at many points to retire from conflict and be satrap of Cappadocia, to raise his family, to rebuild his life. But instead he chose the path of war, and the path of glory, and gave everything he had to defend the throne and the legacy of dead friend Alexander the Great. How to secure loyalty from reluctant followers How to wait out a siege The brittle peace after Antipater’s death, and the wrench that smashed it How Eumenes made it into the Babylonian Chronicle Why the debtor rules the creditor The way Eumenes fought when the odds were against him
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