Philip (Antigonide)

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Philippos ( Greek  Φίλιππος ; † 306 BC at the latest) was a Macedonian general in the time of the Diadoch Wars .

Philip was a son of Antigonus Monophthalmos and Stratonike , his brother was Demetrios Poliorketes . He was named after his paternal grandfather, which suggests that he was the older of the brothers. According to Billows, Philip was born around 334 BC. Born in Macedonia in BC, Helmut Berve, on the other hand, pleads for a later birth in Kelainai , Asia , after the beginning of Alexander the Great's Asian campaign , which would have made him younger than Demetrius.

Philip was born in 310 BC. Mentioned as general of his father. The satrap of the Hellespontian Phrygia , Phoinix , had attempted to break away from the suzerainty of Antigonus. But after a successful campaign Philip was able to force him to submit again.

Philip's date of death has not been passed down, but it should be no later than the spring of 306 BC. He died because he is no longer mentioned when Antigonus was raised to king in the same year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plutarch , Demetrios 2.
  2. ^ Richard A. Billows: Antigonos the One-Eyed an the Creation of the Hellenisitc State , 1990.
  3. ↑ Helmut Berve: The Alexander Empire on a prosopographical basis , 1926.
  4. ↑ Diodorus , 20.19.5.
  5. ↑ Diodorus, 20.73.1.
personal data
SURNAME Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Macedonian general
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 306 BC Chr.