Antigone of Macedon
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Template:Short description Antigone (Template:Langx) was a Macedonian noblewoman who lived in the 4th century BC.
She was born to Cassander by a mother whose name is unknown.[1] Antigone was the niece of the Regent Antipater.[2] Her father and paternal uncle were the sons of Iolaus and through her father Antigone was a distant collateral relative to the Argead dynasty.[3]
Antigone was originally from either Paliura or Eordaea. Little is known of her life. Antigone married a Macedonian nobleman of obscure origin called Magas who was from Eordaea.[4] Antigone and Magas lived in Eordaea and had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.[5]
References
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- Berenice I article at Livius.org Template:Webarchive
- Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I
- Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: Antipatrids
- W. Heckel, Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
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- ↑ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 3
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- ↑ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
- ↑ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 2
- ↑ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p. 71