Antipater I.

Antipater I (Greek Ἀντίπατρος, Latin Antipater; † 287 BC ) was a king of Macedonia . He was the youngest of three sons of the former Macedonian king Kassander and Thessalonike .

Antipater resigned after the death of his older brother, Philip IV , in 296 BC. Chr., With his brother Alexander V. the domination. Because the younger was preferred by her co-ruling mother, Antipater murdered her. After Alexander had allied himself first with Demetrios Poliorketes and then with Pyrrhos I , Antipater fled together with his wife Eurydice to Thrace to his father-in-law Lysimachus , in the hope of being led back to his kingdom by him. But after Demetrios Poliorketes in 287 BC After being expelled from Macedonia in the 4th century BC, Lysimachus sought the throne himself and therefore had Antipater murdered.

Several years of rule by foreign monarchs followed in Macedonia: First Pyrrhus (287–285 BC), then Lysimachus (285–281 BC), who was replaced by Ptolemy Keraunos (281–279 BC) . After this Meleager ruled briefly , then Antipater II , who was murdered by Sosthenes after a few months .

Antipater is often referred to with the ordinal number "II", in contrast to his grandfather of the same name, Antipater , who was never king of Macedonia.

literature

• Julius Kaerst : Antipater 13 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2508 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Philip IV	King of Macedonia together with Alexander V. 297–294 BC. Chr.	Demetrios I. Poliorketes