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	Antipater the Idumaean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antipater came from Idumaea, the then-current name for the land of Edom of the Hebrew Bible, which lay southeast of Judea, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
		Antipater was married to Cypros, a Nabataean noblewoman.
		Antipater laid the foundation for Herod's ascension to the throne of Judea partly through his activities in the court of the Hasmoneans, the heirs of the Maccabees, who were the hereditary leaders of the Jews, and partly by currying favor with the Romans, who made him the first Roman procurator of Judea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antipater_the_Idumaean (625 words)

	Antipater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Utterly defeated the Spartans went to Antipater to plead for peace; the latter's answer was to treat the peace terms directly with the league of Corinth, but the Spartan emissaries preferred to treat directly with Alexander, who imposed on Sparta's allies a penalty of 120 talents and the entrance of Sparta in the league.
		Antipater was disliked for supporting oligarchs and tyrants in Greece, but he also worked with the league of Corinth built by Philip.
		Antipater and Craterus accordingly conclude peace with the Aetolians and went to war against Perdiccas, allying themselves with Ptolemy, the satrap of Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antipater (1267 words)

	Antipater
		Antipater (397-319 BC) was a Macedonian general, a supporter of Philip and Alexander.
		He aided Alexander in the successional struggle after Philip's death, and during Alexander's campaign in the East, Antipater was governor of Macedonia and "general of Europe", posts he held from 334 to 323.
		Antipater was disliked for supporting oligarchs[?] and tyrants in Greece, but he also worked with the Greek League[?] of Philip.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Antipater.html (217 words)

	Antipater - LoveToKnow 1911
		But, on the death of Alexander in 323, he was, by the first partition of the empire, left in command of Macedonia, and in the Lamian War, at the battle of Crannon (322), crushed the Greeks who had attempted to re-assert their independence.
		Antipater and Craterus accordingly prepared for war against Perdiccas, and allied themselves with Ptolemy, the governor of Egypt.
		Antipater, now sole regent, made several new regulations, and having quelled a mutiny of his troops and commissioned Antigonus to continue the war against Eumenes and the other partisans of Perdiccas, returned to Macedonia, where he arrived in 320 (Justin xiii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Antipater (362 words)

	ANTIPATER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Antipater's part in these affairs moves once more into the shade as nothing is known of his contribution when the Macedonian army marched through Thessaly, by the gates of Thermopylae and on to triumph at the epochal battle of Chaeronea.
		Antipater's men with their discipline, greater numbers and growing confidence were soon driving the coalition army back while the stricken Agis was carried off on his shield by his bodyguard.
		Antipater used all his great skills borne of long experience of dealing with the Greeks to exploit the tensions within the coalition and by playing on their weaknesses he gradually brought this troublesome war to a close.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /bobbbennett/antipate.htm (19759 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ANTIPATER: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While at Rome, Antipater tried to influence Herod against Alexander and Aristobulus, who were apparently the favorites; insinuating that these sons of Mariamne were scheming to avenge their mother's death on the person of their father.
		Antipater had also succeeded in gaining the confidence of Alexander and Aristobulus, especially of the former, and could consequently pursue with ease his plan for their ruin.
		Antipater was provisionally cast into prison, and Herod sent letters to Augustus, with full information of his son's machi-nations, and with the request that he be authorized to punish him.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1599&letter=A (675 words)

	Antipater
		Antipater (399-319): commander of the Macedonian forces in Europe during the eastern campaign of Alexander the Great, later regent for Alexander's mentally unstable brother Philip III Arridaeus.
		Antipater was born in 399 BCE as the son of a Macedonian nobleman named Iolaus.
		Antipater was succeeded by an old officer named Polyperchon, but he soon lost control of the situation, and was replaced by Antipater's son Cassander (more).
	www.livius.org /am-ao/antipater/antipater.html (1114 words)

	Antipater - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Antipater served loyally under Philip II of Macedon and played an important part in Alexander's accession in 336.
		Antipater received the same task at the start of the Asian campaign, holding the title of strategos (A, 1.11.3; D, 17.118.1 and 18.12.1; Dexippus F8.3).
		In 322 Antipater and Craterus supressed a Greek rebellion in the Lamian War.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Antipater (452 words)

	Arrianus, Phlegon and other Greek historians
		As the king's bodyguard Antipater appointed Autolycus the son of Agathocles, Amyntas the son of Alexander and brother of Peucestes, Ptolemaeus the son of Ptolemaeus, and Alexander the son of Polysperchon.
		Antipater, being appeased, appointed him to the command of the forces which had crossed over with him to Asia - 8500 Macedonian 'infantry, and the same number of foreign cavalry, together with half the elephants (that is, seventy) - to assist him in ending the war against Eumenes.
		Antipater, with the kings and the rest of his forces, pretended to be going to cross over into Macedonia, but the army again mutinied and demanded their pay.
	www.attalus.org /translate/fgh.html (5330 words)

	Herod the Great - LoveToKnow 1911
		To this policy of dependence upon Rome Antipater adhered, and he succeeded in commending himself to Mark Antony and Caesar in turn.
		In 43 B.C. Antipater was poisoned at the instigation of one Malichus, who was perhaps a Jewish patriot animated by hatred of the Herods and their Roman patrons.
		Antony, who became master of the East after Philippi, was ready to support the sons of his friend Antipater; but he was absent in Egypt when the Parthians invaded Palestine to restore Antigonus to the throne of his father Aristobulus (40 B.C.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Herod_the_Great (1336 words)

	The Wargamer - Battle of Megalopolis 330 BCE
		Meanwhile Antipater, Alexander's regent in Macedonia, was occupied in Thrace where the Macedonian general Memnon was somehow involved in a rebellion.
		Antipater had recruited a large force of over 40,000 strong, with a small Macedonian nucleus and substantial numbers of barbarians from the northern fringes of the empire, reinforced with troops from his Greek allies.
		Early in the battle Antipater's lines broke, but in the end it was the sheer weight of numbers that brought victory to the Macedonians.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/gb-articles/megalopolis.asp (635 words)

	Alexander the Great - Sources
		Antipater in the mean time by an expeditious march advanced to the river, crossed it without opposition, and afterwards took Lamia by surprise.
		As soon as they formed around him, he began a long harangue in defense of Antipater; promising, assuring, and urging every consideration to induce them to acquiesce; till he should be in a situation that might enable him to satisfy their demands.
		During this prolix harangue, Antipater passed the bridge with a party of horse; and escaped the soldiers’ resentment.
	websfor.org /alexander/polyaenus/polyaenus3.asp (3305 words)

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		They were popular with the people, but Herod had designated Antipater his oldest son as his successor, who saw the 2 sons, Alexander and Aristobulus as a threat to him, so he made false charges and led Herod to have them executed.
		Antipater became co-ruler with Herod in 4 BC.
		Antipater saw the two sons as a danger, so he made false charges, got Herod to execute them.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SCRIPTUR/CHRISTBR.TXT (1000 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 201 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		323, to poison, and implicates Antipater and even Aristotle in the plot, is perhaps sufficiently refuted by its own intrinsic absurdity, and is set aside as false by Arrian and Plutarch.
		434, c.) On Alexander's death, the regency of Macedonia was assigned to Antipater, and he forthwith found himself engaged in a war with a strong confederacy of Grecian states with Athens at their head.
		Athens herself was obliged to purchase peace by the abolition of democracy and the admission of a garrison into Munychia, the latter of which conditions might surely have enabled Antipater to dispense with the destruction of Demosthenes and the chiefs of his party.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0210.html (829 words)

	Antipater - Macedonian Army General and Regent
		After Alexander's death Antipater commanded in Europe the Macedonian armies against the Greeks in the Lamian war, which had rebelled and drove out the Macedonian out of Greece.
		Antipater returned with much stronger Macedonian forces, decisively defeated the Greeks at Crannon, and reestablished the Macedonian occupation of Greece.
		But by then Antipater was nearing eighty and this period of stability was cut short by his death in 319.
	www.ancientmacedonia.com /Antipater.html (210 words)

	Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
		Antipater’s son Cassander, however, was comfortable with the choice and convinced his father to allow the appointment.
		Antipater returned to Macedonia to resume his former duties and to bring the two kings back to their homeland.
		Antipater, however, insisted that, according to Macedonian law, being the oldest male he had priority over all others and it was his right alone to rule his father’s empire.
	www.unitedmacedonians.org /macedonia/stefov26.html (8800 words)

	Early Jewish Writings
		However, he forbade Antipater and his mother to have any conversation with Pheroras, and bid them to take care to avoid the assemblies of the women; which they promised to do, but still got together when occasion served, and both Ptieroras and Antipater had their own merry meetings.
		These letters had been procured by great rewards by Antipater's friends; but Antipater himself wrote to his father about them, and laid the heaviest things to their charge; yet did he entirely excuse them of any guilt, and said they were but young men, and so imputed their words to their youth.
		Then did Antipater fall down at his father's feet, and besought him not to prejudge his cause, but that he might be first heard by his father, and that his father would keep himself unprejudiced.
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /text/josephus/ant17.html (8000 words)

	Antipater
		After Pompey's death [in 44 BCE] and (Julius) Caesar's triumph, Antipater -- the administrator of the Jews by order of Hyrcanus (II) -- supplied Caesar with much that he needed, when he was at war with (Cleopatra VII of) Egypt.
		But when the top Jews saw Antipater and his sons growing great from the favor of the people and the revenue from the Jews and Hyrcanus' wealth, they had a grudge against him...
		Look how (Antipater's) son Herod has executed Hezekiah and many with him in violation of our Torah, which prohibits doing away with a man, even if he is evil, unless he is first condemned by the Sanhedrin to endure this.
	virtualreligion.net /iho/antipate.html (690 words)

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		Sensing a great opportunity, Antipater became the prime influence on Hyrcanus, and when the two heirs began their violent feuding, Antipater sided with Hyrcanus, although Aristobulus was the proven military commander.
		For the rest of his life Antipater was thus involved in the affairs of Rome.
		Antipater and Hyrcanus were compelled to assist him, and special taxes were collected, especially by Herod, to provide him with funds for his war against Antony.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME0085 (542 words)

	The Diadochi: The death of Antipater
		In the autumn of 319, Antipater died, the regent of the brother of Alexander the Great and his baby son Alexander.
		While already on his death-bed, Antipater appointed Polyperchon guardian of the kings and general with full powers (Polyperchon was nearly the oldest member of Alexander's expedition, and was respected by the Macedonians.) His son Cassander he appointed 'chiliarch' and second in authority.
		In Asia, as the news of Antipater's death was noised about, revolutionary stirrings began to be felt, as those in positions of authority sought to work for their own ends.
	www.livius.org /di-dn/diadochi/diadochi_t01.html (717 words)

	Antipater of Bostra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The work of Antipater was looked on as a masterly composition, and, as late as 540 was ordered to be read in the churches of the East as an antidote to the spread of the Origenistic heresies (Cotelier, Monument.
		He also wrote a treatise against the Apollinarists, known only in brief fragments, and several homilies, two of which have reached us in their entirety.
		The literary relies of Antipater are found in P.G., LXXXV, 1763-96; see also: Vailhe, in Dict.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/antipater_of_bostra.html (181 words)

	Bible Study - Antipater's Dynasty
		Antipater was a political ally and close friend of Julius Caesar (see Ancient Empires - Rome).
		After Antipater was murdered in 43 B.C., his son Herod, later known as Herod the Great, established the now-familiar family name.
		Upon his death, Antipater's territory was divided among his four sons.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2001/20010214.htm (639 words)

	Antipater, Macedonian general. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He resisted the attempt of Olympias to gain the regency and governed ably except that his policy of supporting tyrants and oligarchs made him unpopular in Greece.
		Antipater was a leading opponent of the regent, Perdiccas, and after Perdiccas was defeated in 321 by Ptolemy I, Antigonus I, and Craterus, it was Antipater who held the kingdom together.
		After his death it fell violently apart in the wars of the Diadochi.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/AntipateGr.html (200 words)

	BOOK XIV
		Now Antipater signalized himself here, and was the first who plucked down a part of the wall, and so opened a way to the rest, whereby they might enter the city, and by this means Pelusium was taken.
		Antipater was present, and made his defense as to the accusations that were laid against him.
		But when Antipater's sons, Herod and Phasaelus, were acquainted with this conspiracy against their father, and had indignation at it, Malichus denied all, and utterly renounced any knowledge of the murder.
	wesley.nnu.edu /biblical_studies/Josephus/ant-14.htm (8713 words)

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