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Antigonids

Antigonids: Macedonian dynasty, ruling Macedonia from 294 to 168 BCE. Demetrius Poliorcetes The Antigonid family rose to power in the years after…

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Antigonus II Gonatas

Antigonus II Gonatas ("knock-knees") (c.319-239): king of ancient Macedonia, ruled 283-239.Relatives Antigonus II Gonatas Father: Demetrius Poliorcetes Mother: Phila I (daughter of Antipater) Wife: Phila…

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Antigonus III Doson

Antigonus III Doson: king of ancient Macedonia, ruled 229-221.Relatives Father: Demetrius the Fair (son of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Ptolemais) Mother: Olympias of Larisa Wife: Phthia (widow of Demetrius II) Main deeds …

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Antipater

Antipater (399-319): supreme 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…

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Antisthenes

Antisthenes (c.445-c.365): influential Athenian philosopher, pupil of Socrates, co-founder of the Cynical school. Antisthenes In the decade after the death of Socrates,…

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Apella

Apella (Greek: Ἀπέλλα): people's assembly in Sparta, of which the homoioi could vote.According to the Greek biographer/philosopher Plutarch, the monthly assembly of the Spartan men - free-born, more than thirty years old - had been instituted by Lycurgus, the legendary legislator…

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