Pleistarchus biography sample
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Pleistarchus biography sample
Pleistarchus (son of Antipater)
4th century BC Macedonian nobleman and general, son of Antipater, brother of Cassander I
Not to be confused with Pleistarchus.
Pleistarchus (Ancient Greek: Πλείσταρχος; fl.
313 – 287 BC) was son of Antipater and brother of Cassander, king of Macedonia. As well as an Antipatrid general, he served as an independent dynast of Cilicia and then Caria in later life.
Wars of the Diadochi
He is first mentioned in the year 313 BC when Cassander himself was recalled to the defense of Macedonia and entrusted the command of Chalcis to his brother.[1] However, it was soon seized from him by Ptolemaeus, Antigonus's nephew and the commander of his forces in western Asia Minor, when he invaded Greece.[2]
Pausanias mentions him as having been defeated by the Athenians in an action in which he commanded the cavalry and auxiliaries of Cassander, probably in 304 BC, late in the Four Years' War.[3] A gate with