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  Battle of Sellasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Sellasia was a battle that took place in 222 BC between the armies of Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedonia, and Cleomenes III, King of Sparta.
Antigonus Doson and the Hellenic League with Cleomenes III
It was there that also the Illyrian allies of Antigonus and their head, Demetrius of Pharos, had a commandment of all of his right wing.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for antigonus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Antigonus II ANTIGONUS II [Antigonus II] (Antigonus Gonatas), c.320-239 BC, king of Macedon, son of Demetrius I. He took the title king on his father's death (283) but made good his claim only by defeating the Gauls in Thrace and by taking Macedon in 276.
Antigonus I ANTIGONUS I [Antigonus I] (Antigonus the One-Eyed or Antigonus Cyclops), 382?-301 BC, general of Alexander the Great and ruler in Asia.
Antigonus I, who had summoned his son Demetrius to his aid, was defeated and slain there by his rivals Seleucus and Lysimachus in 301 BC The battle of Ipsus resulted in the dissolution of Alexander's empire.
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 c. Macedon and Greece, to 146 B.C.E. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
ANTIGONUS II GONATAS (“knock-kneed”?) was driven from Macedon by Pyrrhus of Epirus (274).
Antigonus defeated Ptolemy in a naval battle off Cos and took the Cyclades, though he had to reconquer them later in the Battle of Andros (245).
Antigonus III Doson (“going to give,” i.e., always promising) succeeded his cousin Demetrius as guardian of the latter's eight-year-old son, Philip, whom he deposed in 227 to become king himself.
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 Antigonid dynasty
The Antigonid dynasty was a dynasty of Macedonian kings ruling descended from Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I Monophthalmus ("the One-eyed").
After a period of confusion, Demetrius's son Antigonus II Gonatas was able to establish the family's control over the old Kingdom of Macedon, as well as over most of the Greek city-states, by 276 BC.
Antigonus III Doson[?] (229 BC - 221 BC)
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 Antigonus III Doson
Antigonus was the nephew of Antigonus II Gonatas.
Antigonus supported Aratus Of Sicyon and the Achaean League against Aetolian League and Cleomenes III, king of Sparta.
Antigonus defeated Cleomenes III in Battle of Sellasia, 222 BC.
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 Antigonus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antigonus of Sokho, Jewish scholar of the third century BC.
Antigonus the Hasmonean (died 37 BC), the last ruler of the Hasmonean kingdom of Judea.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Great Battles of History: Sellasia Background & Variant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When Cleomenes III succeeded his father, Leonidas II, as a king of Sparta in 235 BC, the different city-states and leagues were pawns in the power struggles between the great powers of Macedon, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt.
Antigonus drew back his light units and brought his own phalanx forward with sarissas leveled to meet the Spartans shouting their war cries.
Antigonus III proceeded to Sparta and restored it’s pre-Cleomenean government.
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 222 Glossary
Antigonus and Antipater pressured her to take a back seat, and when Antipater returned to Macedon with the kings after the Triparadeisos agreement, Adea / Eurydike was taken too.
Antigonus Gonatas: the son of Demetrius Poliorcetes and grandson of Antigonus Monophthalmus, who remained active, though marginal, in Macedon after his father's imprisonment by Seleucus (288-7).
Antigonus Monophthalmus (the One-Eyed): born in 382, Antigonus was a close contemporary of Philip II.
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 Hellenistic World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Alexander defeated Darius III at the battle of Gaugamela (or Arbela).
Seleucus I fled to Ptolemy I. 315-311 -- Coalition of satraps fought against Antigonus I. 312 -- (Late) Ptolemy I defeated Demetrius Poliorcetes at the battle of Gaza.
228 -- Antigonus III Doson defeated the Aetolians and Thessalians.
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 Hellas: Antigonid Macedonia :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
The founder of the dynasty was Antigonus I Monophtalmus, the oldest of Alexander’s Diadochi.
Antigonus had lost almost all territories; this time the situation was saved by his son, the crown prince Demetrius.
Thereupon, Antigonus married the widow of Demetrius II, adopted the young Philip V, and was proclaimed king and god in 227 BC.
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 Battle of Sellasia
The Battle of Sellasia was a war that took place in 222 BC between the armies of Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedonia and Cleomenes III, King of Sparta, the Spartan Forces were massacred and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.
Arrived at capacity in 235 BC after the death of Leonidas II, son of King Cleomenes III undertook an ambitious political restoration of Sparta's power by returning to a legendary political tradition of Lycurgus.
Antigonus and the Achaeans restored to the Lacedaemonians the constitution of their fathers; but of the children of Leonidas, Epicleidas was killed in the battle, and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.
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 Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Seleucus I Nicator (312-280) In 311 Seleucus recaptured the satrapy of Babylon from Antigonus and from 308 he was able to conquer the entire eastern half of Alexander's empire as far as the Indus.
Antigonus I Monophthalmus 306-301- in 301 Antigonus lost at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia and died in combat there.
Kingdom of Lysimachus- after the death of Antigonus I, Lysimachus received much of Anatolia as far as **Taurus**, woth the exception of many coastal cities under the control of Ptolemy and Cilicia, which went to Pleistarchus, the brother of Cassander In 292 BCE Lysimachus crossed the Danube and attacked the Getae.
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 Chronology of Greek History After the Peloponnesian War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Peace treaty among the Successors recognized the division among Antigonus (Asia), Cassander (Macedonia/ Greece), Lysimachus (Thrace), and Ptolemy (Egypt), although omitting the eastern satrapies of Seleucus I. War between Agathocles and Carthage: invasion of Africa.
Revolt of Alexander of Corinth against Antigonus II Gonatas on the death of Craterus the Younger.
Antigonus III Doson defeated the Aetolians and Thessalians.
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 Macedonia
Antipater, who was in the position to negotiate a deal between the rival factions (the Triparadisus settlement), accepted the regency and took the royal family with him to Europe.
Antigonus Gonatas had to defend himself against Pyrrhus (who was killed in action in 272) and was faced by a large insurrection in Greece.
Antigonus' adopted son Philip V really believed that he was as powerful as his namesake Philip II, and made a disastrous mistake when in 215 he signed a treaty with Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who was successfully fighting against Rome.
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 Walbank Chapter 5
There was a strong current of opposition and in 268/7 the intrigues of Ptolemy II bore fruit in the outbreak of a Greek revolt against Macedonia known as the Chremonidean War after the Athenian Chremonides, who organized an alliance between Athens and Sparta and the allies of Sparta in the Peloponnese and Crete.
By 224 Antigonus was in possession of Corinth.
The new alliance signified a return to the policies of Philip 11 and Antigonus I, except that the new units were not city-states, but confederations, a change reflecting a new emphasis in the political shape of Greece, which we shall look at in Chapter 8.
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 Antigonus III Doson
Antigonus III Doson: king of ancient Macedonia, ruled 229-221.
228 (?): Because the Seleucid Empire is weakened by a civil war between king Seleucus II Callinicus and Antiochus Hierax, Antigonus is able to intervene in Caria.
Revolt in the north; Antigonus returns and is killed in action.
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 ROME DESTROYED IN 450 BC...AN ALTERNATE HISTORY
Demetrius is killed fighting the Celts, and his successor, Antigonus II Gonatas, sues for peace in 280 BC.
His son, Philip, being only nine years old, the rulership of Macedon is taken by a cousin of Demetrius, Antigonus Doson, who rules initially as regent but will, within two years, depose Philip and take the throne for himself.
King Antigonus III Doson of Macedon fights valiantly, allied with King Pyrrhus III of Epirus, against the combined armies of the three neighboring powers, but to no avail.
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 Antigonus III - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The attacks of Cleomenes III on the Achaean League caused its leader, Aratus, to request help from Antigonus, who led his troops south in 224.
In 222, Antigonus crushed Cleomenes at Sellasia in Laconea and took Corinth as his reward.
Meanwhile he had reconstituted the Hellenic League, and when he died he left power in Greece as well as Macedon to Philip.
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 Chronology of Greek History After the Peloponnesian War
Archidamus III was killed at the battle of Manduria, Italy
(November) Alexander defeated Darius III at the battle of Gaugamela (or Arbela).
Peace treaty among the Successors recognized the division among Antigonus (Asia), Cassander (Macedonia/ Greece), Lysimachus (Thrace), and Ptolemy (Egypt), although omitting the eastern satrapies of Seleucus I. 310-306 -- War between Agathocles and Carthage: invasion of Africa.
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 Macedonia.htm
After Alexander III died, Philip III (Alexander's mentally deficit half brother) and Alexander's baby son were made joint rulers of his Macedonian Empire with Perdiccas as their regent and the generals of Alexander as the satrapies.
Antipater divided the Empire between all the generals and returned to Macedonia with Philip III, Alexander's wife Roxane and Alexander IV to rule as regent.
Philip III Arrhidaeus was murdered by Olympias (mother of Alexander III) in 317 BCE.
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 Anatolia: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Laodike, sister of Antiochus, took pity on the city which was in desperate straights and she and and her brother were thanked in public inscriptions as saviours of the city.
Antiochus III in 197 BCE, who in turn was defeated by the Romans, who handed the region over to the Rhodians.
Antigonus I- it was originally called Antigonia and soon thereafter conquered by Lysimachus, King of Macedonia.
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 299 BC to 200 BC World History - Din Timelines
His son, Antigonus II Gonatus claims the throne of Macedonia, but doesn't gain much control until 276 CE.
Asoka assends the throne of the kingdom of Magadha.
Philip V of Macedonia, son of Demetrius II and adopted son of Antigonus III Doson becomes king.
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 Cleomenes III
Cleomenes III, c.260–219 B.C., king of Sparta (235–221 B.C. He was probably the most energetic king Sparta ever had, a conscious imitator of Agis III (see under
Cleomenes fled to Egypt to the protection of his patron, Ptolemy III.
Antigonus III - Antigonus III (Antigonus Doson), d.
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the Achaean Confederacy gained the support of Antigonus Doson against Sparta and Aetolia, in return for Acrocorinth.
Antigonus Doson occupied Acrocorinth with a Macedonian garrison.
Antigonus Doson returned to Macedonia to expel the invading Illyrians and died in 221
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 MACEDONIA AND GREECE AFTER ALEXANDER
Antigonus II Gonatos in charge of Demetrius' Greek posessions
Antigonus II Gonatos marches on Macedon but repelled
Period of Antigonus II Gonatos' patronage of Pelop.
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 AllRefer.com - Antigonus III (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Antigonus III
caused its leader, Aratus, to request help from Antigonus, who led his troops south in 224.
Cleomenes III - Cleomenes III, c.260–219 B.C., king of Sparta (235–221 B.C.).
Macedon: Wars with Rome - Wars with Rome Under Antigonus III's successor, Philip V (reigned 221–179 B.C.), Macedon...
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 Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After Alexander's death the Macedonian empire fell apart during the wars of the Diadochi; in 276 BC Antigonus Gonatas established the Antigonid dynasty on the throne of a Macedon reduced to roughly its historical boundaries.
The last Antigonid king, Perseus, was defeated in 168 BC by the Romans, who divided the country into four self-governing republics on the model of their own constitution; when this policy failed, they reorganised the territory into the province of Macedonia in 146 BC.
N.G.L. Hammond, G.T. Griffith and F.W. Walbank, A History of Macedonia, III vols., Oxford 1972-1989
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