Halcyoneus (Antigonide)

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Halcyoneus († around 261 BC) was a Macedonian prince from the Antigonid dynasty . He was the illegitimate son of King Antigonus II Gonatas and the Athenian woman Demo. His younger half-brother was the future King Demetrios II Aitolikos .

Halcyoneus was brought up in Pella by Perseius , a disciple of Zeno of Kition . In his father's war against Pyrrhus (274-272 BC) Halkyoneus took part as a general. According to the less credible tradition, he is said to be in 272 BC. BC before Argos brought the severed head of Pyrrhus to his father, who insulted him as a barbarian for this unworthy act .

Halcyoneus fell around the year 261 BC. During the Chremonic War . His father arranged for the philosophical school of the Peripatetic Hieronymos of Rhodes in Athens to organize annual commemorations for his son, which were always celebrated on the day of Halcyoneus' birth.

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  1. ↑ Plutarch Pyrrhus 34, 4-6.
  2. ↑ Plutarch, Moralia 119d.
  3. ↑ Diogenes Laertios 4, 41.
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SURNAME Halcyonus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Macedonian prince and general
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 261 BC Chr.