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CHRONOLOGY xvn 324 Alexander at Susa 323 Death of Alexander 323-322 Athens tries to free itself from Macedonia in the Lamian War 323-320 Perdiccas struggles to maintain the unity of empire but is killed in Egypt 320-301 Antigonus I aims for a universal empire 317 Philip III Arrhidaeus murdered 317-289 Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse 315 Olympias murdered 315-311 Coalition of satraps against An- tigonus 311 Division of Alexander's Empire be- tween Antigonus (Asia), Macedon-Greece (Cassander), Lysimachus (Thrace), Ptol- emy (Egypt), and Seleucus (the eastern sa- trapies) 311-306 Wars between Agathocles and Carthage 310 Murder of Alexander IV, son of Al- exander 307 Demetrius I the Besieger "liberates" Athens 306-304 Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleu- cus call themselves kings 305-304 Siege of Rhodes by Demetrius 301 Destruction of power of Antigonus and Demetrius at the Battle of Ipsus An- tigonus dies 297 Death of Cassander, ruler of Macedon 297-272 Career of Pyrrhus of Epirus 290 Aetolian League captures Delphi and emerges as the main political unit in cen- 322 Death of Aristotle Theophrastus be- comes head of Lyceum 321-289 Career of Menander (New Com- edy) 320-305 Hecataeus (historian) active 317-307 Demetrius of Phalerum at Athens 310 Zeno of Citium establishes Stoic school at Athens 307 Epicurus establishes his school at Ath- ens 302-290 Megasthenes at court of Chandra- gupta 300 Ptolemy I founds Library—Zenodotus royal tutor and first head Euclid active tral Greece