Cassander (brother of Antipater)
Cassander (Greek: Κάσσανδρος) was a Greek Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC.
Cassander was the son of Iolaus by an unnamed mother and brother of the powerful Regent and general Antipater.[1] Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty.[2] Cassander, like Antipater, was originally from the Macedonian city of Paliura[3] and was a contemporary to Aristotle.[4]
Little is known on his life. He married an unnamed Greek Macedonian noblewoman by whom he had a child: a daughter called Antigone[5] who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas[6] by whom she had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.[7] His namesake was his nephew Cassander.
References
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- H.J. Rose, A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 2, T. Fellowes, 1857
- W. Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
- Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: Antipatrids
- Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I
- ↑ Theocritus (17.61)
- ↑ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
- ↑ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.35
- ↑ Rose, A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 2, Antipater article
- ↑ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 3
- ↑ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
- ↑ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
