{"slug": "antipater", "label": "Antipater", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204760", "qid": "Q204760", "description": "Macedonian general and regent", "entries": 13, "years": 12, "span": [-399, -283], "span_label": ["400 BCE", "284 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cassander", "label": "Cassander", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "babylon", "label": "Babylon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Antipater, a Macedonian general (d. 319 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#Births", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -333, "year_label": "334 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Alexander III of Macedonia crosses the Dardanelles, leaving Antipater, who has already faithfully served his father, Philip II, as his deputy in Greece with over 13,000 men. Alexander himself commands about 30,000 foot soldiers and over 5,000 cavalry, of whom nearly 14,000 are Macedonians and about 7,000 are allies sent by the Greek League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356615565#Macedonia", "title": "334 BC", "revid": 1356615565, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alexander's regent Antipater leads the Macedonians to victory over King Agis III in the Battle of Megalopolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Greece", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -329, "year_label": "330 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alexander's regent in Macedonia, Antipater, makes peace with the Thracians (with whom he has been warring) and then marches south with a large force of over 40,000 men. He wins a hard-fought Battle of Megalopolis in Arcadia against Agis III of Sparta and his Greek mercenaries. Agis III is killed, and Spartan resistance is broken.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554346#Macedonia", "title": "330 BC", "revid": 1326554346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -322, "year_label": "323 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Some Greek cities, including Athens, revolt against the Macedonian regent, Antipater, following the news of Alexander's death. Athens' actions are incited by the speeches of the Athenian general Leosthenes and the Athenian orator Hypereides. Joined by cities in central and south Greece, the Athenians defeat Antipater in battle. They force him to take refuge in Lamia, where he is besieged for several months by the Greek allies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311163255#Greece", "title": "323 BC", "revid": 1311163255, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -321, "year_label": "322 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenians and their allies' siege of the Macedonian ruler, Antipater, in Lamia is relieved by Leonnatus with an army of 20,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry. Leonnatus is killed in the action.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1316405653#Greece", "title": "322 BC", "revid": 1316405653, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -320, "year_label": "321 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antipater appoints Antigonus commander in chief of his army in Asia Minor and sends him with Craterus to fight against Eumenes, the satrap of Cappadocia and a supporter of Perdiccas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359962346#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "321 BC", "revid": 1359962346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -319, "year_label": "320 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alexander the Great's various generals control different parts of Alexander's empire. Ptolemy controls Egypt, Seleucus controls Babylon and Syria, Antipater and his son Cassander control Macedon and Greece, Antigonus controls Phrygia and other parts of Asia Minor, Lysimachus controls Thrace and Pergamum and Eumenes controls the Cappadocia and Pontus areas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1166431272#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "320 BC", "revid": 1166431272, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -318, "year_label": "319 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian orator and diplomat, Demades, is sent to the Macedonian court, but either the Macedonian regent Antipater or his son Cassander, learning that Demades has intrigued with the former regent Perdiccas, puts him to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1222246653#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "319 BC", "revid": 1222246653, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -318, "year_label": "319 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Antipater, Macedonian general, regent of Alexander the Great's empire (b. 397 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1222246653#Deaths", "title": "319 BC", "revid": 1222246653, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "In a power struggle in Athens after the death of Antipater, Phocion is deposed as the ruler of Athens, convicted of treason, and executed by those Athenians hoping to restore democracy to the city. Shortly afterward, the Athenians decree a public burial and a statue in his honor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Greece", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -286, "year_label": "287 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Phila, daughter of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370523789#Deaths", "title": "287 BC", "revid": 1370523789, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -283, "year_label": "284 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy I's eldest (legitimate) son, Ptolemy Keraunos, whose mother, Eurydice, the daughter of Antipater, had been repudiated by the new King Ptolemy II, flees Egypt to the court of Lysimachus, the king of Thrace, Macedon and Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480303#Asia_Minor", "title": "284 BC", "revid": 1370480303, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}]}