Cassander () was a Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC. Cassander was the son of Iolaus by a mother whose name is unknown, and was the brother of the powerful

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and general

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. Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the

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. 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 a Greek Macedonian noblewoman whose name is unknown, and they had a child: a daughter called

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who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas 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 (; ; 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 contemporary of Alexander the ...

, who became king of Macedon.

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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

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