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	Cassander - King of Macedonia
		In 318 following the defeat of Polyperchon's fleet by that of Antigonus off the Bosphorus, Cassander returned to Macedonia, where he persuaded King Philip III to depose Polyperchon.
		In mainland Greece Cassander continued the policy pursued by his father Antipater of treating the city-states as subjects rather than allies, in contrast to the policy, of Antigonus and Demetrius.
		He had married the sister of Alexander the Great Thessalonica, and in her honor founded the Thessalonica, which centuries later turned into the greatest Macedonian city.
	www.ancientmacedonia.com /Cassander.html (213 words)

	Cassander of Macedonia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Having been passed over by his father in favour of Polyperchon as his successor in the regency of Macedonia, Cassander allied himself with Ptolemy Soter and Antigonus, and declared war against the regent.
		Both she and her husband, however, together with Cassander's brother, Nicanor, were soon after slain by Olympias.
		Cassander at once marched against Olympias, and, having forced her to surrender in Pydna, put her to death (316).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cassander_of_Macedonia (259 words)

	Cassander
		Both she and her husband, however, together with Cassander's brother, Nicanor[?], were soon after slain by Olympias.
		Cassander at once marched against Olympias, and, having forced her to surrender in Pydna[?], put her to death (316 BC).
		Cassander was a man of literary taste, but violent and ambitious.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Cassander.html (249 words)

	CASSANDER IN POWER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cassander, observing the practice for the first time, was perhaps unaware that Polyperchon and others had incurred the king's anger over the matter; he burst into laughter when some Persians prostrated themselves in their traditional way.
		Cassander is accused of carrying poison to Babylon which his brother, Iollas, the king's cupbearer, administered at the party that saw the beginning of Alexander's fatal illness.
		Cassander's main fortress on Euboea and the inevitable corollary of this was that there existed in the port a faction dedicated to the removal of his garrison.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /bobbbennett/cassande.htm (11915 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Pyrrhus by Jacob Abbott
		Cassander, who was a man of a very bold, determined, and ambitious spirit, remained quietly in Polysperchon's court for a little time, watching attentively all that was done, and revolving silently in his mind the question what course he himself should pursue.
		Cassander, it is true, was beyond her reach for the present; he was gradually advancing through Thessaly into Macedonia, at the head of a powerful and victorious army.
		Cassander himself feared that they would not; and although he was unwilling to murder her while she was a defenseless prison- [63] er in his hands, he determined that she should die.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=pyrrhus&story=cassander (4096 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: George Cassander
		Lindanus, afterwards Bishop of Roermonde, remonstrated with Cassander by letter, and would have attacked him publicly had it not been for the intervention of a secretary of the King of Spain.
		At the request of William, Duke of Cleves, Cassander wrote in 1563 a treatise against the Anabaptists: "De Baptismo Infantium".
		It is most probable, though not universally admitted, that Cassander died in full submission to the Catholic Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03403a.htm (535 words)

	Baby Name Cassander - Origin and Meaning of Cassander
		The boy's name Cassander \c(a)-ssan-der, cass(a)-nder\ is of Spanish and Greek origin, and its meaning is "brother of heroes".
		Cassander has 3 variant forms: Casander, Casandro and Cassandero.
		Cassander is a very rare male first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census).
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Cassander (105 words)

	b. The Wars of the Diadochi. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		This was unacceptable to Antigonus, to Ptolemy, and to Antipater's son Cassander.
		Cassander kept Macedon, and his brother Pleistarchus was allotted Cilicia.
		Cassander died in 298 and his two young sons, Antipater and Alexander V, ruled jointly in Macedon but soon quarreled.
	www.bartleby.com /67/209.html (645 words)

	STRUGGLE FOR MACEDONIA
		Cassander's younger brother, Iollas, accompanied Alexander and became one of the king's cupbearers, an honoured position, which hardly suggests the king was hostile to the family of his regent.
		Cassander's experiences in Babylon and his obvious personal ambition had sowed the seeds of doubt as to his appropriateness to guard and guide the feet of Alexander IV to the throne of Macedon.
		Cassander, himself, had not remained idle and prepared a counter stroke, to show both friends and enemies in the region that he was far from being a spent force.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /bobbbennett/struggle.htm (11197 words)

	Polyperchon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On his death bed, he made Polyperchon regent and supreme commander (D 18.47.4 and 18.48.4); Antipater's son Cassander was to be his chiliarch (D 18.48.5) However, the latter was not content with this position, organized a rebellion (D 18.49.2), was supported by king Philip's wife Eurydice, and allied himself to Ptolemy (D 18.49.3).
		However, Cassander was approaching and besieged Olympias in Pydna, a harbor town at the foot of the holy mountain Olympus.
		The results of the treaty were, as one could expect, the murder of Roxane and her son (D 19.105.2) at the order of Cassander, and the preparation of a new round of war.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Polyperchon (1618 words)

	Arrianus, Phlegon and other Greek historians
		Pamphylia, Lycia, and greater Phrygia to Antigonus ; Caria to Cassander; Lydia to Menander; Phrygia on the Hellespont to Leonnatus.
		Cassander alleged in excuse that Demades had once insulted his father, Antipater, in a letter which he wrote to Perdiccas, begging him to rescue the Greeks, who were only held together by an old and rotten thread, as he abusively called Antipater.
		Cassander was at variance with Antigonus, but by command of his father, Antipater, he abandoned his opposition.
	www.attalus.org /translate/fgh.html (5330 words)

	Ptolemy I Soter
		At the same time, Cassander of Macedonia, Lysimachus of Thrace, and Ptolemy of Egypt were trying to improve their positions.
		Cassander came close to collapse, but when Lysimachus of Thrace, Seleucus of Babylonia, and Ptolemy understood that their enemies were almost ready to unite Macedonia with their Asian possessions, they decided to offer more help.
		Cassander and Lysimachus had reason to fear the presence of the man in the region, and Ptolemy's Phoenicia lay dangerously exposed to his attacks.
	www.livius.org /ps-pz/ptolemies/ptolemy_i_soter3.html (1868 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cassander (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After his father's death, Cassander engaged in vigorous warfare against Antipater's successor as regent, Polyperchon.
		Cassander pursued her, crushed her army, and condemned her to death (316).
		Later, to strengthen his claim to the throne, he married Alexander's half sister, Thessalonica, and in 311 he murdered Alexander's widow, Roxana, and their son.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cassande.html (268 words)

	Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382-301 B.C.)
		In order to win the support of the Greek city-states, whose resistance to subjugation presented the chief stumbling block to the formation of a Hellenistic monarchy, he announced to his assembled army that all the Greeks should be free, autonomous, and ungarrisoned.
		Cassander's influence in Greece was now broken, and in 306 Demetrius defeated Ptolemy's fleet near Salamis on the island of Cyprus and conquered the island.
		This concession was necessary because in the meantime Cassander had invaded Attica and was besieging Athens.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/antigonus.html (1078 words)

	History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part IX, by Risto Stefov
		Cassander in time began to act as king of Macedonia and had no intention of stepping down for anyone.
		Cassander was to remain general of Europe until young Alexander came of age, Lycimachus was to remain in Thrace, Ptolemy in Egypt and Antigonus was to be first in rank in Asia.
		Cassander had two younger sons named Antipater and Alexander who under Salonica's (their mother and Philip II's daughter) guidance became rivals.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/stefov/stefov26.html (8815 words)

	Alexander the Great - Sources
		Cassander then convened an assembly of the people; and gave to leave any one, who had any thing to offer against Nicanor, to urge it.
		[3] While Cassander besieged Pydna, a town in Macedonia, in which Olympias was shut up; Polysperchon dispatched a sloop with orders to land close by the town in the night: of which he by letter apprised Olympias, and desired her to embark on board it.
		Supposing Cassander had entirely evacuated the country, the Illyrians ventured out of the city, and went abroad to different parts, as their different business required their attention.
	websfor.org /alexander/polyaenus/polyaenus4.asp (3358 words)

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		Cassander turned from the doorway on hearing that Sier could not leave the Inn because of something that was hunting him.
		Cassander noticed that everyone had apparently told his or her story, at least for the moment.
		Cassander excused himself from his friends at the tabele, promising to return once he procured an ale from the bar.
	www.dragons-inn.org /Exp/Tales/NG/NG1 (7094 words)

	Bible Study - Thessalonica
		Cassander named the city after his wife Thessalonica, who was so-named by her father King Philip of Macedon (Alexander's father) when he discovered that she had been born on the day that Philip defeated the Thessalians.
		Cassander was among the Diadochi, or the "successors" of Alexander (which included The Seleucids and The Ptolemies - two of the four "prominent" horns of Daniel 8:8; see also Alexander The Great In Prophecy) who became much more overtly ambitious after Alexander's death.
		Cassander defeated Alexander's mother Olympias (who some historians suspect was involved in the assassination of her husband Philip, Alexander's father) who was later killed, and he also murdered Alexander's widow Roxana and their infant son.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/20020801.htm (315 words)

	The Hellenistice World (323 - 30 B.C.)
		Cassander had her put to death, while keeping Rhoxane and Alexander IV under his protection—or guard.
		Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy formed an alliance against Antigonus and Demetrius, and at Ipsus in 301 the allies, with the help of a force of elephants brought from India by Seleucus, defeated and killed Antigonus.
		Cassander, who was a statesman, had founded two great cities, Cassandreia and Thessalonica, as well as rebuilding Thebes.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/hellenistic.html (4418 words)

	Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck
		However, Cassander's army escaped from the Peloponnese and besieged Olympias at Pydna; when the Macedonian soldiers were too awed by Alexander's mother to kill her, some relatives of her victims murdered Olympias.
		Cassander revived the city of Thebes and, sailing across to Epidaurus, retook Argos and Messenia from Polyperchon's son Alexander.
		Cassander died in 298 BC, and his younger son Alexander appealed to Demetrius; but Pyrrhus, secured as king of Epirus by Ptolemy's help, got to Macedonia first and was given western territory by Alexander.
	san.beck.org /EC23-Hellenistic.html (20398 words)

	Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck
		However, Cassander's army escaped from the Peloponnese and besieged Olympias at Pydna; when the Macedonian soldiers were too awed by Alexander's mother to kill her, some relatives of her victims murdered Olympias.
		Cassander revived the city of Thebes and, sailing across to Epidaurus, retook Argos and Messenia from Polyperchon's son Alexander.
		Cassander died in 298 BC, and his younger son Alexander appealed to Demetrius; but Pyrrhus, secured as king of Epirus by Ptolemy's help, got to Macedonia first and was given western territory by Alexander.
	www.san.beck.org /EC23-Hellenistic.html (20398 words)

	Cassander: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Egypt--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Ptolemy--I Soter--King Of Egypt--D....without having to decipher Kassandros as Cassander, or to struggle with the notion that...successor.
		Later advocates of accommodation, such as Georg Witzel and Joris Cassander, or the architects of the church ordinance of Julich-Cleves, were identified as disciples of Erasmus.
		Cassander pursued her, crushed her army, and condemned her to death...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101236032 (1071 words)

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