Antipater Epigonos

Antipater Epigonos also known as Antipater (Greek: Αντίπατρος Επίγονος, flourished second half of 3rd century BC & first half of 2nd century BC) was a Greek Prince from Asia Minor.

Family Background

Antipater was a prince of Thessalian and Macedonian ancestry. He was the son born to Epigonos of Telmessos by an unnamed wife. He had a paternal uncle called Lysimachus of Telmessos; had a paternal first cousin called Ptolemy II of Telmessos and had a paternal second cousin called Berenice.

Through his father, Antipater was a direct descendant of Lysimachus who was one of the Diadochi of the Greek King Alexander the Great who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia and Ptolemy I Soter another of the Diadochi of the Greek King Alexander the Great who was the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt and his wife, Berenice I of Egypt.

Life

Little is known on the life of Antipater, as he was a part of the Lysimachid dynasty, which is also known as the Ptolemaic/Lysimachid dynasty in Lycia in ruling the city of Telmessos. Antipater was born and raised in Telmessos in Lycia at an unknown date during the reign of Lysimachus of Telmessos. Lysimachus of Telmessos, ruled as the second Ptolemaic Client King of Telmessos from February 240 BC until his death in 206 BC. Lysimachus’ son, Ptolemy II of Telmessos, ruled from 206 BC to until at least 181 BC. Ptolemy II was the fourth and final ruler from their family to rule Telmessos and was also, the third and final Ptolemaic Client King of Telmessos.

Antipater

Antipater (/ænˈtɪpətər/; Greek: Ἀντίπατρος Antipatros; c. 397 BC – 319 BC) was a Macedonian general and a supporter of kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. In 320 BC, he became regent of all of Alexander's Empire.

Career under Philip and Alexander

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 for three years of hard and successful campaigning against Thracian and Scythians tribes, which extended Macedonian rule as far as the Hellespont. In 342 BC, when the Athenians tried to assume control of the Euboean towns and expel the pro-Macedonian rulers, he sent Macedonian troops to stop them. In the autumn of the same year, Antipater went to Delphi, as Philip's representative in the Amphictyonic League, a religious organization to which Macedon had been admitted in 346 BC.

After the triumphal Macedonian victory at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, Antipater was sent as ambassador to Athens (337–336 BC) to negotiate a peace treaty and return the bones of the Athenians who had fallen in the battle.

Antipater (writer)

Antipater (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίπατρος) was in ancient Greece a writer on the interpretation of dreams (Oneirocritica), mentioned by fellow writer on dreams Artemidorus in his Oneirocritica. His works are now lost, and the only reference to his work is in Artemidorus, who mentions Antipater's thoughts on a dream where the dreamer had sexual intercourse with a piece of iron.

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Antipater". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 201. 

Antipater (2nd-century physician)

Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος) was a Greek physician and contemporary of Galen at Rome in the 2nd century, who gives an account of his death and the morbid symptoms that preceded it.

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