Prepelaos

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Prepelaos ( Greek  Πρεπέλαος ; † after 302 BC) was a Macedonian general in the service of King Cassander during the Diadoch Wars in the 4th century BC.

Prepelaos assumed the position of a close confidante towards Kassander, for whom he had performed the duties of a general and statesman. During the third Diadoch war he had 315 BC. Successfully moved Alexander , the son of the Cassander opponent Polyperchon , to a change of sides and thus won almost the entire Peloponnese for his master. Shortly thereafter, Prepelaos led a landing operation on the coast of Caria to support the satrap Asandros against Antigonos Monophthalmos . However, they were defeated in a battle by the Antigonid general Ptolemy , whereupon Caria fell under the rule of Antigonus.

In 311 BC Prepelaos was the diplomatic negotiator for Kassander at the court of Antigonos Monophthalmos and was involved in the elaboration of the " Diadoch peace ". This emerges from a letter from Antigonus to the city of Skepticism (today Kurşunlu Tepe in Turkey), which has been preserved there as an inscription.

In the fourth Diadochenkrieg Prepelaos was 304 BC. Appointed governor of Corinth by Kassander in the 4th century BC , this city and its castle Akrokorinth could not hold against Demetrios Poliorketes , who was returning from Asia . In the summer of 302 BC He was sent by Kassander with a small force to Lysimachus to support him in the invasion of Asia Minor against Antigonus. After the conquest of Lampsakos he was sent by Lysimachos with 6,000 infantrymen and 1,000 cavalrymen to conquer the Aioli and Ionian coastal cities. One after the other, he conquered Adramyttion and Ephesus , where he freed the one hundred Rhodian hostages who once lived in 304 BC. After the siege of Rhodes had to be handed over to Demetrios Poliorketes. Subsequently Prepelaos also conquered Teos and Colophon ; Erythrai and Klazomenai resisted him successfully, however, for which he devastated their surroundings. However, he then successfully persuaded the governor of Sardis , Phoinix , to change sides to Lysimachus.

After that Prepelaos is no longer mentioned in the lore. Whether in the summer of 301 B.C. B.C. participated in the decisive battle of Ipsos , in which Antigonos Monophthalmos was defeated, can therefore not be clearly clarified.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diodorus 19, 64, 3.
  2. ↑ Diodor 19, 68, 5-7.
  3. ^ J. Arthur R. Munro: A Letter from Antigonus to Scepsis, 311 BC In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 19 (1899), pp. 330-340 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Djournalofhelleni19soci~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D338~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ; on Prepelaos, p. 338) = Wilhelm Dittenberger , Orientis Graeci inscriptiones selectae (OGIS), No. 5 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dorientisgraeciin01dittuoft~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D15~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D ; PHI Greek Inscriptions ).
  4. ↑ Diodor 20, 103, 1-7.
  5. ↑ Diodorus 20, 107, 1.
  6. ↑ Diodor 20, 107, 4. Demetrios Poliorketes succeeded in the spring of 301 BC. On his way to Ipsos the reconquest of Ephesus and other coastal cities (Diodorus 20, 111, 3).
  7. ↑ Diodorus 20, 107, 5.
personal data
SURNAME Prepelaos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Πρεπέλαος
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of King Cassander of Macedonia
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 302 BC Chr.