Alexander attempts in summer 324 BCE to…

Alexander attempts in summer 324 BCE to solve another problem: that of the wandering mercenaries, of whom there are thousands in Asia and Greece, many of them political exiles from their own cities.

A decree brought by Nicanor of Stageira to Europe and proclaimed in September at Olympia requires the cities of the Hellenistic League to receive back all exiles and their families (except the Thebans), a measure that implies some modification of the oligarchic regimes maintained in the Greek cities by Alexander's governor Antipater.

Alexander now plans to recall Antipater and supersede him with Craterus; but he will die before this can be done.