Eupolemus Simalou

Eupolemus Simalou (in Ancient Greek: Eυπόλεμoς Σίμαλου) was a Macedonian officer in the fourth century BC.

[3] His captivity proved to be short-lived as the next year (312 BC), Cassander named him strategos of Greece when he moved northward against Antigonus.

[7] This (faulty) assumption previously led historians to erroneously conclude that Eupolemus the general had been awarded the title of proxenos and the epithet euergetes.

From here, he would issue exclusively bronze coinage, usually depicting Macedonian shields on the obverse and a sheathed sword with EYΠO-ΛEMOY (Eupolemos) featured on the reverse.

His policies of military colonization and heavy taxation, while pragmatic, may have evoked the ire of his subjects, presumably contributing to the rebellion of his garrison at Theangela.

A recent study by Richard J. Ashton has suggested that the coins minted under Eupolemus date to the early third century, rather than the 310s BC like Descat argued.