Eupolemus (in Greek Eυπόλεμoς; lived 4th century BC) was one of the generals of Cassander; he was sent by him in 314 BC to invade Caria, but was surprised and taken prisoner by Ptolemy, a general who commanded that province for Antigonus.[1] He must have been liberated again directly, as the next year (313 BC) we find him commanding the forces left by Cassander in Greece, when he moved northward against Antigonus.[2]

Later in life, he ruled over a significant portion of Caria as an independent dynast.[3][4] He was succeeded in Caria by Pleistarchus, the son of Antipater and brother of Cassander.

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  1. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xix. 68
  2. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, 77
  3. ↑ Billows, Richard A. (1989). "Anatolian Dynasts. The Case of the Macedonian Eupolemos in Karia". Classical Antiquity. 8 (2): 173–206. doi:10.2307/25010904. JSTOR 25010904.
  4. ↑ Descat, Raymond (1998). "La carrière d'Eupolemos, stratège macédonien en Asie Mineure". Revue des Études Anciennes. 100 (1–2): 167–186. doi:10.3406/rea.1998.4723.

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