Antigone ( el, Ἀντιγόνη) was a
Macedonian noblewoman who lived in the 4th century BC.
She was born to
Cassander
Cassander ( el, Κάσσανδρος ; c. 355 BC – 297 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 305 BC until 297 BC, and ''de facto'' ruler of southern Greece from 317 BC until his death.
A son of Antipater and a conte ...
by unnamed mother. Antigone was the niece of the
Regent
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Antipater. Her father and paternal uncle were the sons of Iolaus and through her father Antigone was a distant collateral relative to the
Argead dynasty.
Antigone was originally from either Paliura or
Eordaea
Eordaea ( el, Ἐορδαία) was a geographical region of upper Macedonia and later an administrative region of the kingdom of Macedon. Eordaea was located south of Lynkestis, west of Emathia, north of Elimiotis and east of Orestis.Di ...
. Little is known of her life. Antigone married a Macedonian nobleman of obscure origin called
Magas
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who was from Eordaea. Antigone and Magas lived in Eordaea and had a daughter called
Berenice I of Egypt.
[Heckel, ''Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire'', p. 71]
The colony of
Antigonia was named after her and her
granddaughter of the same name.
References
Sources
Berenice I article at Livius.org* W. Heckel, Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
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4th-century BC Macedonians
4th-century BC Greek women
Ancient Macedonian women
Ptolemaic dynasty
Antipatrid dynasty