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. Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty. Cassander, like Antipater, was originally from the Macedonian city of Paliura and was a contemporary to

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. Little is known on his life. He married an unnamed Greek Macedonian noblewoman by whom he had a child: a daughter called

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who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called

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by whom she had a daughter called

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.Heckel, ''Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire'', p.71 His namesake was his nephew

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 cont ...

, who became king of Macedon.

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Sources

* 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

4th-century BC Macedonians 4th-century BC Greek people Antipatrid dynasty