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  List of ancient Greeks - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Hellenistic Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antigonus II ruled until his death in 239 BC, and his family retained the Macedonian throne until it was abolished by the Romans in 146 BC.
Antigonus's son Demetrius II died in 229, leaving a child (Philip V) as king, with the general Antigonus Doson as regent.
Macedon was now too weak to achieve this objective, but Rome's ally Eumenes II of Pergamum persuaded Rome that Perseus was a threat to Rome's position.
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Nothing is known of his early career until 342 BC, when he was appointed by Philip to govern Macedon as his regent while the former left the country for three years of hard and successful campaigning against Thracian and Scythians tribes, which extended the limits of Macedonian rule as far as the Hellespont.
In the meanwhile in 342 BC he acted so to keep the Athenians at bay: when they tried to assume control of the Euboean towns and expel the pro-Macedonian rulers, Macedonian troops were sent to stop the attempt.
Antigonus Gonatas was born around 319 BC, probably in Gonnoi in Thessaly.
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 Athens - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
The growth of Macedon's power under Philip II heralded the demise of Athens as a major power.
After his death Athens revolted (323-322 &BC;) against control by Macedon, but the revolt was quashed, and Athens lost its remaining dependencies and declined into a provincial city.
In 1311 the duchy was captured by a band of Catalan soldier-adventurers who offered (1312) the ducal title to King Frederick II of Sicily, a member of the house of Aragón.
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 Ancient Greece and Macedon: Rulers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
450–404 B.C. Agesilaus II, king of Sparta (c.
337–283 B.C. Antigonus II, king of Macedon (c.
320-239 B.C. Demetrius II, king of Macedon (c.
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