Antipater (Seleucid)

Antipatros ( Greek Αντίπατρος ) was a Seleucid military leader and diplomat in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC. On his father's side he was a grandson of King Seleukos II and a follower of his uncle King Antiochus III.

Life

At the Battle of Raphia in 217 BC AD Antipater commanded 4,000 horsemen against the Ptolemaic army. After the defeat, he was sent by his uncle to Alexandria as a negotiator to negotiate a peace with Ptolemy IV , which confirmed the province of Koilesyria in the possession of the Ptolemies. In the victorious battle of Paneion in 200 BC BC, after the Koilesyrien could be conquered for the Seleucid Empire, he led the contingent of the Tarentines .

After the defeat in the Battle of Magnesia , Antipater was defeated in 189 BC. Once again appointed chief diplomat to negotiate with Zeuxis with the Romans Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus the terms that were sealed in the peace of Apamea . Antipatros and Zeuxis then traveled to Rome at the head of an embassy , where they presented the peace plan to the Senate for discussion. After it was accepted, the Senate representatives carried out the solemn ratification of the treaty in the Capitoline Temple with Antipater .

literature

John D. Grainger: A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer. 1997, p. 38.
Ulrich Wilcken : Antiochus 19). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2512 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Titus Livius 37, 55, 3. Rolf Strootman ( Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires, The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE , Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2014 ISBN 9780748691265 , p. 143) assumes this that Livy understood the term adelphos in Polybius as a relational designation, which is not its meaning. The term describes more of a fictional relationship. Antipater would not be a grandson of Seleucus II.
↑ Polybios 5, 79, 12 and 82, 9.
↑ Polybios 5, 87, 1-5.
↑ Polybios 16, 18, 7.
↑ Polybios 21, 16, 4-17, 9; Titus Livius 37, 45, 5ff.
↑ Polybios 21, 24, 1ff .; Titus Livius 37, 55, 1ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Antipater
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nephew of Antiochus III, general and diplomat of the Seleucid Empire
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[1] Titus Livius 37, 55, 3. Rolf Strootman ( Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires, The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE , Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2014 ISBN 9780748691265 , p. 143) assumes this that Livy understood the term adelphos in Polybius as a relational designation, which is not its meaning. The term describes more of a fictional relationship. Antipater would not be a grandson of Seleucus II.

[2] Polybios 5, 79, 12 and 82, 9.

[3] Polybios 5, 87, 1-5.

[4] Polybios 16, 18, 7.

[5] Polybios 21, 16, 4-17, 9; Titus Livius 37, 45, 5ff.

[6] Polybios 21, 24, 1ff .; Titus Livius 37, 55, 1ff.