Antigonus (Gonatas)
“Gonatas”
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Antigonus · King Antigonus · Antigonus Gonatas
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Vitae philosophorum
Macedonian king who was tutored by Euphantus, consulted and patronized Menedemus, and to whom Menedemus was suspected of intriguing against or for.
He taught King Antigonus and dedicated to him a work On Kingship which was very popular.
On the motion of the generals and the councillors—Whereas King Antigonus is returning to his own country after vanquishing the barbarians in battle, and whereas in all his undertakings he prospers according to his will, the senate and the people have decreed.
He was a man of such dignity that, when Eurylochus of Casandrea was invited by Antigonus to court along with Cleïppides, a youth of Cyzicus, he declined the invitation, being afraid that Menedemus would hear of it, so caustic and outspoken was he.
Aemilius Paulus
Macedonian king, son of Demetrius, in the royal genealogy leading to Perseus.
Antigonus, who was the most powerful of Alexander’s generals and successors, and acquired for himself and his line the title of King, had a son Demetrius, and his son was Antigonus surnamed Gonatas.
Aratus
Earlier Macedonian king who assists the tyrant Aristippus in plotting against Aratus's life and later dies, being succeeded by Demetrius.
When Antigonus died and Demetrius succeeded to the throne, Aratus was all the more bent upon getting Athens, and wholly despised the Macedonians.
Consolatio ad Apollonium
A king who, on learning of the death in battle of his son Alcyoneus, received the news with a brief silence and a modest countenance before addressing his son's memory directly, praised as an example of the bravery of spirit these men showed.
King Antigonus, when he heard the death of his son Alcyoneus who was slain in battle, looking steadily upon the messengers of these sad tidings, after a little interval of silence and with a modest countenance, spoke thus: