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  Demetrius I of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Demetrius I (337-283 BC), surnamed Poliorcetes ("Besieger"), son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus and Stratonice, was a king of Macedon (294 - 288 BC).
At the age of twenty-two he was left by his father to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of Lagus; he was totally defeated in Battle of Gaza, but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the neighbourhood of Myus.
In the same year he established himself on the throne of Macedonia by murdering Antipater II, the son of Cassander.
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 OLYMPIAS - LoveToKnow Article on OLYMPIAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Here she remained until 317, when, allying herself with Polyperchon, by whom her old enemy had been succeeded in 319, she took the field with an Epirote army; the opposing troops at once declared in her favor, and for a short period Olympias was mistress of Macedonia.
Cassander, Antipater's son, hastened from Peloponnesus, and, after an obstinate siege, compelled the surrender of Pydna, where she had taken refuge.
One of the terms of the capitulation had been that her life should be spared; but in spite of this she was brought to trial for the numerous and cruel executions of which she had been guilty during her short lease of power.
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 Macedon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Macedon proper constituted the coast plain NW, N, and NE of the Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí) peninsula; Upper Macedon was the highland to the west and the north of the plain.
B.C. there was developing in W Macedon a political unit led by a Greek-speaking family, which assumed the title of king and aggrandized itself.
Macedon, with Greece as a dependency, was one of the states carved out of the Alexandrian empire.
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 Alexander the Great
Born in Pella, Macedon, Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and Epirote (Albanian) princess Olympias.
Macedon was located in the northernmost part of classical Greece and was regarded by some Greeks (such as Demosthenes) as barbarian but by others (such as Isocrates) not as such.
The diadochoi met once again and choose Antipater to be the next regent, but Eumenes, former secretary of Alexander and Perdiccas, didn't accept the decision and started a rebellion against diadochoi.
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 List of ancient Greeks
Arsinoe II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Hiero II of Syracuse - tyrant of Syracuse
Ptolemy II of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
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 Antipater - Art History Online Reference and Guide
During Alexander's campaign in the East, Antipater was governor of Macedonia and "general of Europe", posts he held from 334 BC to 323 BC.
Antipater was disliked for supporting oligarchs and tyrants in Greece, but he also worked with the Greek League of Philip.
Antipater and Craterus were engaged in a war against the Aetolians when he received the news from Antigonus in Asia Minor that Perdiccas contemplated making himself outright ruler of the empire.
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 biology - Antigonus I Monophthalmus
Eumenes was defeated and forced to retire to the fortress of Nora in Cappadocia.
Polyperchon succeeded Antipater regent of the empire in 319 BC.
Demetrius took control of Macedon in 294 BC, which the family held, off and on, until it was conquered by the Roman Republic at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Macedon @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MACEDON [Macedon], ancient country, roughly equivalent to the modern region of Macedonia.
The capital of Macedon from c.400 to 167 BC was Pella.
Macedon was a Persian tributary in 500 BC but took no real part in the Persian Wars.
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 Philip of Macedon
The Thracians were already in possession of eastern Macedonia, the strongest Greek military power of Thebes continuously intervened in the internal Macedonian politics, the Greeks colonies on the edge of Macedonia, particularly Olynthus, were obstacle to Macedonia's economy and presented a military danger, and the invasions of the Illyrians put north-western Macedonia under their occupation.
Philip II was a hostage of the Greeks at Thebes, between 368 and 365 BC.
"Antipater was appointed governor of Macedonia and Greece" - Justin 13.4.5
www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/PhilipII.html   (5113 words)

  
 Macedonia FAQ: Philip II of Macedonia
Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia (359-336 BC), son of Amyntas II and Eurydice was born in Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia.
During his childhood he saw the Macedonian kingdom disintegrating while his elder brothers Alexander II and Perdiccas III, fought unsuccessfully against insubordination of their regional vassal princes, continuous attacks by the northern Greek city Thebes, and invasion by the Illyrians of the northwest frontier.
Philip II was a hostage in Thebes, from 370 BC to 360 BC.
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 Antipater II of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was king of Macedon from 297 BC until 294 BC, jointly with his brother Alexander V.
Alexander turned to Demetrius Poliorcetes for help, and Demetrius overthrew Antipater and then had Alexander murdered.
Antipater himself survived, however, and in 279 BC he became king again after the death of Ptolemy Keraunos.
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 Antipater - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antipater served loyally under Philip II of Macedon and played an important part in Alexander's accession in 336.
He was one of the most influential men in Macedon at the time and did everything he could to support the new king.
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).
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 Diadochi
On the death (319) of Antipater the struggle was on again.
, the son of Antipater, and it was pursued even further with the wars between the Seleucidae and the Ptolemies.
Commonly, however, the period of the Diadochi is said to end with the victory of Seleucus I over Lysimachus at the battle of Corupedion in 281, fixing the boundaries of the Hellenistic world for the next century.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Alexander of Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
On the afternoon of June 10-11, 323 BC, Alexander died of a mysterious illness in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon.
The original story stated that Cassander, son of Antipater, viceroy of Greece, brought the poison to Alexander in Babylon in a mule's hoof, and that Alexander's royal cupbearer, Iollas, brother of Cassander, administered it.
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 Sosthenes of Macedon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 279 BC he killed his cousin (additional info and facts about Antipater II of Macedon) Antipater II of Macedon, who was (additional info and facts about king of Macedon) king of Macedon.
Sosthenes was extremely popular because he defeated the (A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times) Celts in one very bloody battle near (An ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the Temple of Apollo) Delphi.
He was then replaced by (additional info and facts about Antigonus II Gonatas) Antigonus II Gonatas.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sosthenes_of_macedon.htm   (249 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Antipater @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was one of the ablest and most trusted lieutenants of Philip II and was a friend and supporter of Alexander the Great.
When Alexander went on his Asian campaign, Antipater was left as regent (334-323 BC) in Macedon.
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.
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 EUMENES OF CARDIA - LoveToKnow Article on EUMENES OF CARDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
of Macedon, and on the death of that prince, by Alexander, whom he accompanied into Asia.
When Craterus and Antipater, having reduced Greece, determined to pass into Asia and overthrow the power of Perdiccas, their first blow was aimed at Cappadocia.
After the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt by his own soldiers, the Macedonian generals condemned Eumenes to death, andcharged Antipater and Antigonu~ with the execution of their order.
40.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EU/EUMENES_OF_CARDIA.htm   (372 words)

  
 Philip II of Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alexander, supported by Antipater, was presented to the Macedonian Assembly (pretty much) immediately, and was acclaimed king.
One of the first to acclaim him was Alexander of Lyncestis, who was Antipater's son-in-law.
Whatever the truth of the matter was, Alexander clearly did not consider his half-brother to be a threat - which left Arrhidaeus alive to succeed to the throne on Alexander's own death in 323 BC.
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 Alexander the Great Biography
Born Alexander III in Pella, Macedon, he was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and Epirote princess Olympias.
According to several legends, Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by Zeus.
North and east of classical Greece, Macedon was regarded by most Greeks as foreign and semi-barbarian.
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Alexandros, son of the Macedonian "barbarian" Philip II and of the Thraco-Illyrian Olympia (barbarian as well) distinguished himself in the universal history as an outstanding figure, in the campaigns he managed and also as an artistic personality, as he spread the Balkan culture on three continents.
Born in 356 BC at Pella, the capital of the Pela-sgian kingdom of Macedonia, the very night the famous temple of the goddess Artemis of Ephesus caught fire, Alexander was doomed to face a society ruled by primitive and barbarian survival laws.
The death of Alexander of Macedon triggered the annulment of the Corinthian pact.
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 Herod Agrippa II --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Agrippa II was raised and educated at the imperial court in Rome.
The term was first used to denote the governor of any of the four tetrarchies into which Philip II of Macedon divided Thessaly in 342 BC—namely, Thessaliotis, Hestiaeotis, Pelasgiotis, and Phthiotis.
Bhaskara II was born in 1114 in Biddur, India.
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 Articles - Olympias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is said that Philip II had fallen in love with her when they were among the celebrants at the Kaveiria mysteries of Dionysus in Samothrace, where they were both being initiated into the mysteries.
The marriage was stormy and in the fall of 357 BC, Olympias being neglected and in anger went back to Epirus where she spent the winter.
Olympias supported her grandson, the son of Alexander the Great, Alexander IV of Macedon, and allied with Polyperchon in 317 BC, by whom Antipater had been succeeded in 319 BC.
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 Leaders and Battles: Antipater,
Macedonian general and supporter of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great.
Antipater, a trusted lieutenant of Philip II and a supporter of Alexander the Great, held the positions of governor of Macedonia and general of Europe after Philip's death.
He successfully led the army when the tribes in Thrace rebelled in 332 B.C. and again during the revolt of Agis III of Sparta.
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 Philip of Macedon
Philip of Macedon - King of Macedonia and conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece
The Macedonians were defeated and expelled from Greece, but the Macedonian commander Antipater returned with additional reinforcement of 10,000 veterans from Asia.
Perdiccas and Meleager were murdered, Antigonus rose to control most of Asia, but his growth of power brought the other Macedonian generals in coalition against him.
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 The Rise of Macedon and the Empire of Alexander the Great 359-323 B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Son of Philip II of Macedon — "Gossip surrounded the birth of Alexander.
After Alexander’s death (323) she failed in an attempt to woo the support of Leonnatus and then Perdiccas against Antipater, but on the latter’s death (319) joined forces with Polyperchon, invaded Macedonia, and killed Philip III Arrhidaeus and Adea (Eurydice) leaving Alexander IV as nominal king and herself (at last) in power (317).
His policy, far from being dictated by the impulses of philanthropic idealist, was restricted to the higher echelons of government service and the army (the officer corps in particular); its two main objectives were to assimilate Persian generals and colonels into the existing command structure, and to create a joint Perso-Macedonian administrative class.
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 Kids Be Safe : Article 'Libanius'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Modern influence Whatever the original intent of Chrysostom, his writings have been circulated by many groups in an attempt to foster anti-Semitism or opposition to Christianity.
One of the groups to do with was the Nazis during World War II, who used it to try to convince Christians in Germany and Austria that the Jews deserved to be exterminated.
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 AllRefer.com - Olympias (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
B.C., wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great.
She did not get on well with Philip, who had other wives, but the story that she murdered him is probably false.
Her violent ambitions plunged her into quarrels with Antipater, whom Alexander had left as regent in Macedonia, and after Alexander's death she tried to forestall Cassander, Antipater's son, in Macedonia.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Macedon
Antipater (of Macedon) (398?-319 bc), Macedonian general, lieutenant of Alexander the Great.
Philip II (of Macedonia) (382-336 bc), king of Macedonia (359-336 bc) and father of Alexander the Great, born in Pella.
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 Diadochi . Macedon . Ptolemy I of Egypt . Antipater . Aetolian League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dynastic struggles also rent Egypt, where Ptolemy decided to make his younger son Ptolemy II of Egypt Ptolemy Philadelphus his heir rather than the elder, Ptolemy Ceraunus.
Soon Lysimachus made the fatal mistake of having his son Agathocles murdered at the say-so of his second wife, Arsinoe II of Egypt Arsinoe 282 BC.
Though the debate surrounding the cause of Alexander s sudden death has never been clearly resolved, all of our ancient sources—even those who reject the notion of...
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 Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography
Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography
Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedon Biography
But as soon as the news of Alexander's death in Babylon were known in Europe, the Greeks rebelled yet again and so begun the Lamian War.  The Macedonians were defeated and expelled from Greece, but the Macedonian commander Antipater returned with additional reinforcement of 10,000 veterans from Asia.
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