Antipater
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Antipater was a Macedonian general, regent and statesman under the successive kingships of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. In the wake of the collapse of the Argead house, his s
Coinage of Alexander the Great, Amphipolis mint, struck under Antipater for Philip III Arrhidaeus, circa 322–320 BC.
Bust depicting Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. Antipater was a right hand man to Philip II, often serving as regent when Philip was away on campaign.
Image of a theater in Megalopolis. Alexander' the Great's response to Antipater's victory over Agis III at the Battle of Megalopolis was to proclaim that "while we have been conquering Darius here, there has been a battle of mice in Arcadia".
Demosthenes the Orator was a staunchly anti-Macedonian Athenian statesman. When Antipater won the Lamian War and demanded his surrender, Demosthenes committed suicide.
Wars of the Diadochi
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The Wars of the Diadochi or Wars of Alexander's Successors were a series of conflicts fought between the generals of Alexander the Great, known as the Diadochi, over who would rule his empire followin
Eumenes defeating Neoptolemus, in the Battle of the Hellespont (321 BC), Wars of the Diadochi; 1878 engraving