Antigonus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
Macedonian king who entrusted the Acrocorinth to Persaeus.
and, by Zeus, if a man should be entrusted by a king or a tyrant with gold or silver, or ships, or arms, or a citadel, or the whole empire—as Leptines often received Syracuse from his brother, and Philistus from the younger Dionysius, and the Magi the royal palace of the Persians from Cambyses, when he was on campaign in Egypt, and Mithranes the citadel of Sardis from Darius, and Persaeus the Acro …
The Rights of War and Peace
Macedonian ruler who, having conquered Sparta, allowed it to retain its own government.
Polybius highly extols the merit and wisdom of Antigonus, who, having Sparta in his power, allowed the inhabitants to retain their national polity and freedom.
On Anger
A king presented as a model of mild, forbearing response to insults from soldiers and enemies.
For what was easier for Antigonus than to order two common soldiers to be led off who, leaning against the king's tent, were doing what men do most dangerously and most gladly—thinking ill of their king?
And so, when the Greeks were besieged in some little fort and, despising the enemy through confidence in the place, were making many jests at Antigonus's ugliness, now deriding his low stature, now his flattened nose, he said:
The same man, one night, when he had overheard some of his soldiers calling down all evils upon the king who had led them into that march and that inextricable mire, came up to those who were labouring most, and, when he had extricated them as they knew not by whom they were being helped, said:
On Benefits
A king who, asked by a Cynic for money, refuses both a large and a small sum on contradictory grounds, illustrating a failure to match gift to giver and receiver.
1 A Cynic asked a talent of Antigonus;