HIERONYMUS OF CARDIA, Greek general and histo rian, contemporary of Alexander the Great. After the death of the king he joined Eumenes. He was taken prisoner by Antigonus, who pardoned him and appointed him superintendent of the as phalt beds in the Dead Sea. Demetrius Poliorketes made him polemarch of Thespiae, and he died at the court of Antigonus Gonatas at the age of 104. He wrote a history of the Diadochi and their descendants, from the death of Alexander to the war with Pyrrhus (323-272 B.c.), which was used by Diodorus Siculus (xviii. xx.) and by Plutarch in his life of Pyrrhus. He made use of official papers and was careful in his investigation of facts.
See Lucian, Macrohii, 22 ; Plutarch, Demetrius, 39; Diod. Sic. xv 44, 50, xix. Ioo; Dion. Halic. Antiq. Rom. i. 6; Pausanias I. 9. 8. F. Bruckner, "De vita et scriptis Hieronymi Cardiff," in Zeitschrift f iir die Alterthumswissenschaft (1842) ; F. Reuss, Hiero nymos von Kardia (1876) ; C. Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der alters Geschichte (1895) ; fragments in C. W. Muller, Frag. Kist. Graec., ii. 450-461. See also Jacoby's article in Pauly-Wissowa 2.