Antigone from Epirus
Antigone of Epirus ( Greek Ἀντιγόνη ; * around 320 BC in Macedonia ; † around 295 BC) was the first wife of Pyrrhus , king of the Molossians in Epirus .
Antigone was the daughter of the Macedonian nobleman and later Queen of Egypt Berenike I and her first husband Philip, an unknown Macedonian. Around 320 BC Berenike became lady-in-waiting of the related Eurydice , the bride of Ptolemy I , and accompanied her to Egypt . As early as 317 BC Ptolemy I started a liaison with Berenike and soon took her as his second wife.
Ptolemy I married his stepdaughter Antigone to Pyrrhus when he was 299/298 BC. Came hostage to the Alexandrian court to serve as a guarantee for the good behavior of Demetrios Poliorketes . In addition, the Egyptian king supported Pyrrhus with an army, ships and money in the reconquest of Epirus, which in 297 BC. Chr. Succeeded. Antigone followed her husband to Epirus and probably bore him a daughter named Olympias and in any case a son Ptolemy , in whose year of birth (around 295 BC) she died, perhaps in childbirth. Soon after her death, Pyrrhus took Lanassa as his wife.
literature
- Werner Huss : Egypt in the Hellenistic Period 332–30 BC Chr. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47154-4 , pp. 202 and 305.
- Ulrich Wilcken : Antigone 6) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2404.
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Remarks
- ↑ Plutarch , Pyrrhos 4, 4.
- ^ Pausanias 1, 6, 8.
- ↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhos 4, 4; Pausanias 1, 11, 5.
- ↑ Christopher Bennett: Antigone , note 6
- ↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhos 6.
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| SURNAME | Antigone from Epirus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of Berenike I, wife of Pyrrhus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 320 BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macedonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 295 BC Chr. |