Cassander (brother of Antipater)

Cassander (Greek: Κάσσανδρος) was a Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC.

Cassander was the son of Iolaus by a mother whose name is unknown, and was the brother of the powerful Regent and general Antipater.[1] Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty.[2] Cassander, like Antipater, was originally from the Macedonian city of Paliura[3] and was a contemporary to Aristotle.[4]

Little is known on his life. He married a Greek Macedonian noblewoman whose name is unknown, and they had a child: a daughter called Antigone[5] who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas[6] by whom she had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.[7] His namesake was his nephew Cassander, who became king of Macedon.

References

  1. ^ Theocritus (17.61)
  2. ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.35
  4. ^ Rose, A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 2, Antipater article
  5. ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 3 Archived October 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
  7. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71

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