{"slug": "cassander", "label": "Cassander", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassander", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207183", "qid": "Q207183", "description": "king of Macedonia", "entries": 40, "years": 20, "span": [-354, -294], "span_label": ["355 BCE", "295 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 25}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 13}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "polyperchon", "label": "Polyperchon", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "olympias", "label": "Olympias", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lysimachus", "label": "Lysimachus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 3}], "items": [{"year": -354, "year_label": "355 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Cassander, companion of Alexander the Great, successor king of Macedonia and founder of Antipatrid dynasty (approximate date) (d. c. 297 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343188193#Births", "title": "355 BC", "revid": 1343188193, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus resolves to become lord of all Asia, and in conjunction with Cassander and Ptolemy. He enters into negotiations with Eumenes; but Eumenes remains faithful to the royal house. He raises an army and forms a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He then captures Babylon from Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander, who has allied himself with Ptolemy and Antigonus, declares war on the regent, Polyperchon. Most of the Greek states support him, including Athens. Cassander further effects an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip III Arrhidaeus of Macedon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "After capturing Athens from Macedonia's regent Polyperchon, Cassander entrusts the government of Athens to the Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, Demetrius Phalereus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "While Cassander is occupied in the Peloponnesus, Olympias leads an army into Macedonia. She is initially successful, defeating the army of King Philip III Arrhidaeus and capturing King Philip and his wife, Eurydice, as well as Cassander's brother, Nicanor. She then has them murdered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander returns from the Peloponnesus and defeats Macedonia's regent Polyperchon in battle. Cassander blockades Olympias, mother of the late Alexander the Great, in Pydna, where she surrenders. Cassander takes Roxana and her son Alexander IV of Macedon into his custody.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Cassander founds, on Pallenê, a city called Cassandreia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Olympias is condemned to death by Cassander, but his soldiers refuse to carry out the sentence. She is eventually killed by relatives of those she has previously had executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Cassander marries Thessaloniki, half-sister of Alexander the Great. He has Alexander's widow, Roxana and son, Alexander IV of Macedon, imprisoned at Amphipolis in Thrace. They are never to be seen alive again.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cassander appoints Apollonides as Governor of Argos", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Greece", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander sends Prepelaus to Alexander (son of Polyperchon) and he convinces Alexander to desert Antigonus by offering command of all the Peloponnesus and making him general of an army", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Greece", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus drives out Cassander's Macedonian forces of occupation from the Greek islands and forms the island cities in the Aegean into the \"League of the Islanders\", preparatory to his invasion of Greece. His ally, the city of Rhodes, furnishes him with the necessary fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "In Macedonia the port city of Thessaloniki is founded by Cassander and named after his wife Thessalonike.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Greece", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -313, "year_label": "314 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As Cassander fights to retain control over central Greece, Antigonus promises freedom to the Greek cities in a bid to gain support from them against Cassander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240408#Greece", "title": "314 BC", "revid": 1242240408, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander, hearing of Aristodemus' success with the Aetolians, marches south in force, persuades the Acarnanians to ally with him, and campaigns successfully along the Adriatic coast; capturing Apollonia and defeating the Illyrian king Glaucius. At the end of the year Cassander returns to Macedon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Becoming tired of Macedonian rule, the people of Epirus recall their former king Aeacides (who until then had been campaigning with his old ally Polyperchon in the Peloponnese). Cassander immediately sends an army against him under his brother Philip, who is diverted from invading Aetolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aristodemus and his mercenary army (recruited the year prior) cross over to the Peloponnese and fight Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, at Cyllene, and liberate Patrae and Aegium from Cassander's garrisons. Aristodemus then returns to Aetolia, leaving a sizeable force in the Pelopponese who help the city of Dyme eject its garrison, despite a failed intervention by Alexander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With his western border thus strengthened, Cassander sends Prepelaus, one of his top generals, with an army to Asia Minor to aid his ally Asander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander orders Dionysius (the commander of his garrison in Athens) and Demetrius of Phalerum (the tyrant of Athens) to send a fleet of 20 warships to try and recapture Lemnos. An Athenian strategos named Aristoteles is sent, ravaging the island in conjunction with Seleucus (who was sent into the Aegean by Ptolemy). After Seleucus sails away, Aristoteles is attacked by the Antigonid fleet, most of his ships being captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Greece", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander receives reinforcements from Athens (under Thymochares the Sphettian, descendant of Thymochares) and defeats Telesphoros' squadron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander abandons the siege of Oreus, concentrating his forces at Chalcis to counter Ptolemy who has landed at Bathys in Boeotia and has been reinforced by the Boeotian League with 2,200 infantry and 1,300 cavalry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alcetas advances on the Macedonian garrison of Acarnania under Lyciscus, a general of Cassander. Three battles are fought and a defeated Alcetas flees to a fortress in Epirus. Cassander marches the main Macedonian field army into Epirus and forces Alcetas to ally with him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Telesphorus arrives in to the Peloponnese and starts expelling Cassander's garrisons. He successfully liberates all cities and towns that are being held for Cassander by Polyperchon and his son Alexander; all except Sicyon and Corinth who are being defended by Polyperchon and Alexander themselves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander sails against the city of Oreus on Euboea with a fleet of 30 ships. He blockades its port trying to force the city's surrender.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander marches on Apollonia, which people had driven out his garrison with the help of the Illyrians, but the Appolonians and Illyrians defeat him in battle, driving him out of western Greece for the time being.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Greece/Macedon/Thrace", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedon/Thrace"}}, {"year": -310, "year_label": "311 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cassander opens up negotiations with Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1230109286#Greece", "title": "311 BC", "revid": 1230109286, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -310, "year_label": "311 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In view of the threat by Seleucus to his control of the East, Antigonus decides to make peace with all of his adversaries, except Seleucus, who now holds Babylon. All of the diadochi confirm the existing boundaries and the freedom of the Greek cities. Ptolemy and Lysimachus are confirmed as satraps of Egypt and Thrace, respectively, and Antigonus and Cassander are confirmed as commanders of the army in Asia and Europe. Antigonus, no longer regent but now titled the strategos (officer in charge) of the whole of Asia, rules in Syria from the Hellespont to the Euphrates, including Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1230109286#Asia_Minor/Syria/Palestina", "title": "311 BC", "revid": 1230109286, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor/Syria/Palestina"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonid general Ptolemy forms an alliance with Cassander revolting against his uncle Antigonus", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Greece/Macedonia", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Greece/Macedonia"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Cassander, who has held Roxana, widow of Alexander the Great, in prison for a number of years, has her put to death along with her young son Alexander, the nominal King Alexander IV of Macedon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#Greece", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy makes peace with Cassander", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Greece", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "At the beginning of June (the 26th day of the Attic month of Thargelion: Plut. Dem. 8,3) Demetrius, son of Antigonus, launches a surprise attack on Pireaus, Athens' harbour; his forces are able to secure control of the entire port city, except the fortress on the Munychia which remains in the hands of Dionysius, the commander of Cassander's garrison in Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Greece", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius of Phalerum, who ruled Athens for 10 years with the support of Cassander, recognizes his position has become untenable. He opens up negotiations, and after several diplomatic exchanges involving Aristodemus of Miletus, Antigonus top diplomat, he is given safe conduct to Thebes. Eventually he settles in Alexandria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Greece", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander invades Attica and besieges Athens. He captures the island of Salamis off the coast of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander and Lysimachus persuade Seleucus and Ptolemy to join them in trying to destroy Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Greece", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -300, "year_label": "301 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus' defeat and death secures Cassander's control of Macedonia. Through this victory, Lysimachus is able to add the greater part of Asia Minor to his European possessions while Seleucus now controls most of Syria. However, Demetrius is able to keep a foothold in Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554911#Asia_Minor", "title": "301 BC", "revid": 1326554911, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Cassander of Macedon, one of the diadochoi (\"successors\"), the Macedonian generals who have fought over the empire of Alexander the Great after his death (b. c. 358 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Deaths", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Following Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, succeeds his father as King of Macedon, but soon after coming to the throne, he suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Greece", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -294, "year_label": "295 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Thessalonike of Macedon, daughter of king Philip II of Macedon and wife of Cassander (b. 352 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129451#Deaths", "title": "295 BC", "revid": 1350129451, "section": "Deaths"}}]}