Author(s):
Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA)
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Schütrumpf, Eckart E. (Boulder, CO)
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Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich)
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Meier, Mischa (Bielefeld)
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Strothmann, Meret (Bochum)
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Et al.
(Δημήτριος;
Dēmḗtrios). Well-known personalities: the Macedonian King D. [2] Poliorketes; the politician and writer D. [4] of Phalerum; the Jewish-Hellenistic chronographer D. [29]. I. Politically active personalities [German version] [1] Officer under Alexander the Great Officer under Alexander [4], fought at Gaugamela as commander of a troop (
ile) of Hetairoi and in India he commanded a hipparchy. Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA) Bibliography Berve 2, no. 256. [German version] [2] D. Poliorketes Son of Antigonus [1], born 337/6 BC (Diod. Sic. 19,96,1). In 320 he married Phila, who bore him Antigonus [2]. He took part in the war against Eumenes [1]. As commander against Ptolemaeus he was decisively beaten at Gaza. A campaign against the Nabataei was likewise unsuccessful. After the peace of 311, Antigonus sent him to defend the eastern satrapies against Seleucus (Diod. Sic. 19,100, with an erroneous chronology). He occupied Babylon but when Ptolemy invaded Asia Minor he was recalled; Seleucus continued his conquests. Ptolemy was driven out of Asia Minor, but he gained Corinth and Sicyon. Thereupon Antigonus dispatched D. with a fleet and 5,000 talents to Europe, where he drove Demetrius [4] of Phalerum out of Athens. Antigonus and D. were welcomed as gods: the first spontaneous deification by Greeks in Europe. Recalled once again by his father, he defeated Ptolemy in a decisive naval battle at Salamis. As the death of Alexander [5] had become known in the meantime, Antigonus and D. assumed the title of king in 306. Sent to Rhodes, D. was unable to get the island to defect from Ptolemy; a long and unsuccessful siege gain…