{"slug": "demetrius-poliorcetes", "label": "Demetrius Poliorcetes", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Poliorcetes", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 31, "years": 23, "span": [-311, -282], "span_label": ["312 BCE", "283 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 22}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "antigonus-i-monophthalmus", "label": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus", "shared": 12}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "seleucus-i-nicator", "label": "Seleucus I Nicator", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "lysimachus", "label": "Lysimachus", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "antigonus-ii-gonatas", "label": "Antigonus II Gonatas", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pyrrhus-of-epirus", "label": "Pyrrhus of Epirus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "At the end of the year, Ptolemy invades Antigonus' territories in Palestine with an army of 18,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry. The resulting Battle of Gaza leads to a triumph for Ptolemy over Antigonus' son, Demetrius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -311, "year_label": "312 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius rallies the remnants of his army at Tripolis and summons reinforcements from the garrisons of upper Syria and Cilicia; he also writes his father, Antigonus, and urges him to send help. Meanwhile Ptolemy captures Acre, Joppa, Samaria and Sidon, and starts to besiege Tyre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172925#Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia", "title": "312 BC", "revid": 1354172925, "section": "Events › By place › Syria/Mesopotamia/Babylonia"}}, {"year": -310, "year_label": "311 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Through clever diplomacy Antigonus is able to lull the Nabateans into a false sense of security. Demetrius, with a force of 4,000 light infantry and 4,000 cavalry, is sent to make another raid on Petra. The Nabateans, reacting quickly, are able to foil the attack. Demetrius negotiates terms with the Nabateans and returns to his father with hostages and gifts (including 700 camels)", "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": -310, "year_label": "311 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy tries to occupy Syria; he himself campaigns in Coele Syria (southern Syria) while he sends Killes, one of his generals, into northern Syria to finish off the remnants of Demetrius Poliorcetes' army. Demetrius defeats Killes at Myus and Antigonus enters Syria in force. So, after only a few months, Ptolemy evacuates his forces from Syria.", "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": "Antigonus orders Nicanor, one of his generals, to invade Babylonia from the east and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes to attack it from the west. Nicanor assembles a large force but is surprised and defeated by Seleucus at the river Tigris, and his troops are either cut to pieces or defect to the enemy. Similarly, Demetrius Poliorcetes fails to oust Seleucus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Babylonia", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Babylonia"}}, {"year": -306, "year_label": "307 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Upon becoming ruler of Epirus, Pyrrhus allies himself with his brother-in-law, Demetrius and through him with Antigonus.", "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": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius captures Megara and there he restores the old constitution as well.", "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": "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": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius captures the fortress on the Munychia and razes it to the ground. The old democracy, with the old constitution, is re-established in Athens under the leadership of Stratocles and Demochares. The grateful Athenians honour Antigonus and Demetrius as divine saviours (theoi soteres).", "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": "Antigonus prepares an expedition to Greece under his son Demetrius. They gather a fleet of 250 ships and a large army in western Asia Minor. Antigonus gives his son 5.000 talents and some of his top officers, chief among them Medius of Larissa and Aristodemus of Miletus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359452513#Asia_Minor", "title": "307 BC", "revid": 1359452513, "section": "Events › By place › Asia Minor"}}, {"year": -305, "year_label": "306 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes lands on Cyprus and besieges Menelaus, brother of Egypt's ruler, Ptolemy I Soter, at Salamis. Ptolemy Soter, coming to his brother's aid, is decisively defeated in the Battle of Salamis. The battle completely destroys the naval power of Egypt and results in the capture of Cyprus by Demetrius. This gives Demetrius' father, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, control of the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326553952#Cyprus", "title": "306 BC", "revid": 1326553952, "section": "Events › By place › Cyprus"}}, {"year": -304, "year_label": "305 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus I Monophthalmus sends his son Demetrius to initiate the Siege of Rhodes, as the city has refused him armed support against Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225162735#Syria", "title": "305 BC", "revid": 1225162735, "section": "Events › By place › Syria"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes and the Rhodians come to a truce, with the agreement that the city should be autonomous, should keep its own revenue and that the Rhodians should be allies of Antigonus unless he is at war with Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes invades mainland Greece for Asia-Minor, drives Cassander out of central Greece and liberates Athens. In return, the Athenians bestow on him a new religious honour, synnaos (meaning \"having the same temple\") of the temple of the goddess Athena.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius shows ingenuity in devising a new siege engine: a wheeled siege tower named Helepolis (or \"Taker of Cities\"), which stands 40 meters tall and 20 meters wide and weighs 180 tons.", "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": "Demetrius Poliorcetes invades the Peloponnese and occupies Corinth, Sicyon, and Argos in the Peloponnese, and Achaea, Elis and almost all of Arcadia join his side.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Greece", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -301, "year_label": "302 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Antigonus' son Demetrius Poliorcetes attacks Cassander's forces in Thessaly. Cassander loses his possessions south of Thessaly to Demetrius. Antigonus and Demetrius crown their success by renewing the pan-Hellenic league. Ambassadors from all the Hellenic states (with the exception of Sparta, Messenia and Thessaly) meet at Corinth to elect Antigonus and Demetrius protectors of the new league.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372589595#Greece", "title": "302 BC", "revid": 1372589595, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -300, "year_label": "301 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In the Battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, the armies of Antigonus, the ruler of Syria, Asia Minor, Phoenicia and Judea, and his son Demetrius Poliorcetes are defeated by the forces of Lysimachus and Seleucus. Antigonus is killed in the battle.", "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": -299, "year_label": "300 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After the death of his wife Apama, Seleucus marries Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129363#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "300 BC", "revid": 1350129363, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -296, "year_label": "297 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece with the aim of becoming master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129350#Greece", "title": "297 BC", "revid": 1350129350, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -295, "year_label": "296 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ptolemy makes peace with Demetrius Poliorcetes, to whom he betrothes his daughter Ptolemais.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359921190#Greece", "title": "296 BC", "revid": 1359921190, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -294, "year_label": "295 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Athens falls to Demetrius Poliorcetes after a bitter siege, and its tyrant Lachares flees into exile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129451#Greece", "title": "295 BC", "revid": 1350129451, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -293, "year_label": "294 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Archidamus IV, king of Sparta, son of Eudamidas I and grandson of Archidamus III, is defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedonia in a battle at Mantinea. Sparta is saved only because Demetrius is called away by the threatening activities of his rivals Lysimachus and Ptolemy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129455#Greece", "title": "294 BC", "revid": 1350129455, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -292, "year_label": "293 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Boeotians revolted against Demetrius Poliorcetes, the King of Macedon. They received help from the Aetolians and the Spartans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129456#Greece", "title": "293 BC", "revid": 1350129456, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -291, "year_label": "292 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "While Demetrius Poliorcetes is campaigning in Boeotia, he receives news that Lysimachus, the ruler of Thrace, has been taken prisoner by Dromichaetes. Hoping to seize Lysimachus's territories in Thrace, Demetrius delegates command of his forces in Boeotia to his son, Antigonus and immediately marches north. However, while he is away, the Boeotians rise in rebellion, but are defeated by Antigonus, who bottles them up in the city of Thebes and puts them under siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367905067#Greece", "title": "292 BC", "revid": 1367905067, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -290, "year_label": "291 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes joins his son, Antigonus, in the siege of Thebes. As the Thebans defend their city stubbornly, Demetrius forces his men to attack the city at great cost. Demetrius finally takes the city after using siege engines to demolish its walls.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1115795236#Greece", "title": "291 BC", "revid": 1115795236, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -287, "year_label": "288 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonian King, Demetrius Poliorcetes, faces a combined attack from Lysimachus and Phyrrhus, king of Epirus, after Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus form a coalition to block plans by Demetrius to invade Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373136664#Greece", "title": "288 BC", "revid": 1373136664, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -286, "year_label": "287 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonians resent the extravagance and arrogance of Demetrius Poliorcetes and are not prepared to fight a difficult campaign for him. When Pyrrhus of Epirus takes the Macedonian city of Verroia, Demetrius' army promptly deserts and goes over to Pyrrhus' side as he is much admired by the Macedonians for his bravery. At this change of fortune, Phila, the mother of Antigonus, kills herself with poison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370523789#Greece", "title": "287 BC", "revid": 1370523789, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -285, "year_label": "286 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As Demetrius Poliorcetes and his army are chased across Asia Minor to the Taurus Mountains by the armies of Lysimachus and Seleucus, in Greece his son Antigonus meets with success. Ptolemy's fleet is driven off and Athens surrenders to Antigonus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1156902149#Greece", "title": "286 BC", "revid": 1156902149, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -284, "year_label": "285 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes is deserted by his troops and surrenders to Seleucus at Cilicia, where Seleucus keeps him a prisoner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370920977#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "285 BC", "revid": 1370920977, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -282, "year_label": "283 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Following Demetrius Poliorcetes' death in captivity as a prisoner of Seleucus, his son Antigonus assumes the title of King of Macedonia, though in name only, as King Lysimachus of Thrace is in control of Macedonia. Demetrius' remains are given to Antigonus and he is honoured with a grand funeral in Corinth. After this, Demetrius is interred in the town of Demetrias which he had founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173238#Greece", "title": "283 BC", "revid": 1354173238, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}