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Poliorkétés – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Démétrios I. Poliorkétés" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Poliorcetes" title="Demetrius Poliorcetes – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Demetrius Poliorcetes" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Poliorketes" title="Demetrios Poliorketes – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Demetrios Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_I._Poliorketes" title="Demetrios I. Poliorketes – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Demetrios I. Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Poliorketes" title="Demetrios Poliorketes – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Demetrios Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%82" title="Δημήτριος ο Πολιορκητής – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Δημήτριος ο Πολιορκητής" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_I_de_Macedonia" title="Demetrio I de Macedonia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Demetrio I de Macedonia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_la_1-a_Poliorketes" title="Demetrio la 1-a Poliorketes – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Demetrio la 1-a Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_I.a_Mazedoniakoa" title="Demetrio I.a Mazedoniakoa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Demetrio I.a Mazedoniakoa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9m%C3%A9trios_Ier_Poliorc%C3%A8te" title="Démétrios Ier Poliorcète – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Démétrios Ier Poliorcète" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EB%A9%94%ED%8A%B8%EB%A6%AC%EC%98%A4%EC%8A%A4_1%EC%84%B8_%ED%8F%B4%EB%A6%AC%EC%98%A4%EB%A5%B4%EC%BC%80%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4" title="데메트리오스 1세 폴리오르케테스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="데메트리오스 1세 폴리오르케테스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrije_I._Poliorket" title="Demetrije I. Poliorket – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Demetrije I. Poliorket" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_I_dari_Makedonia" title="Demetrios I dari Makedonia – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Demetrios I dari Makedonia" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrio_I_Poliorcete" title="Demetrio I Poliorcete – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Demetrio I Poliorcete" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%A1" title="דמטריוס פוליורקטס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דמטריוס פוליורקטס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes" title="Demetrius I Poliorcetes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Demetrius I Poliorcetes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._D%C3%A9m%C3%A9triosz_maked%C3%B3n_kir%C3%A1ly" title="I. Démétriosz makedón király – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="I. Démétriosz makedón király" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98_I_%D0%9E%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82" title="Деметриј I Опсадникот – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Деметриј I Опсадникот" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_I_Poliorketes" title="Demetrios I Poliorketes – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Demetrios I Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%A1%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B91%E4%B8%96_(%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B1%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E7%8E%8B)" title="デメトリオス1世 (マケドニア王) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デメトリオス1世 (マケドニア王)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_I_Poliorketes" title="Demetrios I Poliorketes – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Demetrios I Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Poliorketes" title="Demetrios Poliorketes – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Demetrios Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetriusz_I_Poliorketes" title="Demetriusz I Poliorketes – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Demetriusz I Poliorketes" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dem%C3%A9trio_I_da_Maced%C3%B3nia" title="Demétrio I da Macedónia – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Demétrio I da Macedónia" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_I_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Деметрий I Полиоркет – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Деметрий I Полиоркет" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9m%C3%A9trios_I._(Maced%C3%B3nia)" title="Démétrios I. 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg/220px-Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg/330px-Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg/440px-Demetrios_Poliorketes_MAN_Napoli_Inv6149.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2650" data-file-height="3533" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Marble bust of Demetrius I Poliorcetes. Roman copy from 1st century AD of a Greek original from 3rd century BC.</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/King_of_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Macedonia">King of Macedonia</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">294–288 BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Antipater_I_of_Macedon" title="Antipater I of Macedon">Antipater I of Macedon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus of Epirus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Hegemon of the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Corinth" title="League of Corinth">Hellenic League</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">304 BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_III_Doson" title="Antigonus III Doson">Antigonus III Doson</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">337 BC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">283 BC (aged 53–54)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phila_(daughter_of_Antipater)" title="Phila (daughter of Antipater)">Phila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurydice_of_Athens" title="Eurydice of Athens">Eurydice of Athens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deidamia_I_of_Epirus" title="Deidamia I of Epirus">Deidamia I of Epirus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanassa_(wife_of_Pyrrhus)" title="Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)">Lanassa</a></li> <li>Ptolemais</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stratonice_of_Syria" title="Stratonice of Syria">Stratonice of Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus II Gonatas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_the_Fair" title="Demetrius the Fair">Demetrius the Fair</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dynasty" title="Dynasty">House</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Antigonid_dynasty" title="Antigonid dynasty">Antigonid dynasty</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mother</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stratonice_(wife_of_Antigonus)" title="Stratonice (wife of Antigonus)">Stratonice</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;">Military career</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_War_of_the_Diadochi" title="Second War of the Diadochi">Second War of the Diadochi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paraitakene" title="Battle of Paraitakene">Battle of Paraitakene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gabiene" title="Battle of Gabiene">Battle of Gabiene</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_War_of_the_Diadochi" class="mw-redirect" title="Third War of the Diadochi">Third War of the Diadochi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(312_BC)" title="Battle of Gaza (312 BC)">Battle of Gaza</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_War_of_the_Diadochi" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth War of the Diadochi">Fourth War of the Diadochi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis_(306_BC)" title="Battle of Salamis (306 BC)">Battle of Salamis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(305%E2%80%93304_BC)" title="Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)">Siege of Rhodos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ipsus" title="Battle of Ipsus">Battle of Ipsus</a></li></ul></li> <li>As King of Macedon <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Thebes_(292%E2%80%93291_BC)" title="Siege of Thebes (292–291 BC)">Siege of Thebes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Athens_(287_BC)" title="Siege of Athens (287 BC)">Siege of Athens</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Demetrius I Poliorcetes</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ɔːr/: 'ar' in 'war'">ɔːr</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Δημήτριος Πολιορκητής</span>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Dēmḗtrios Poliorkētḗs</i></span>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">the Besieger of Cities</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>; <span class="nowrap">337 – 283 BC</span>) was a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Macedonians" title="Ancient Macedonians">Macedonian Greek</a> nobleman and military leader who became king of <a href="/wiki/Asia_(Roman_province)" title="Asia (Roman province)">Asia</a> between 306 and 301 BC, and king of <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedon</a> between 294 and 288 BC. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Antigonid_dynasty" title="Antigonid dynasty">Antigonid dynasty</a>, he was the son of its founder, <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a>, and his wife <a href="/wiki/Stratonice_(wife_of_Antigonus)" title="Stratonice (wife of Antigonus)">Stratonice</a>, as well as the first member of the family to rule Macedon in <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_Greece" title="Hellenistic Greece">Hellenistic Greece</a>. </p><p>In 307 BC, Demetrius successfully ousted <a href="/wiki/Cassander" title="Cassander">Cassander</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum" title="Demetrius of Phalerum">governor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> and after defeating <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy I</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis_(306_BC)" title="Battle of Salamis (306 BC)">Battle of Salamis</a> (306 BC) he gave his father the title of <i><a href="/wiki/Basileus" title="Basileus">basileus</a></i> ("king") over a land spanning from the <a href="/wiki/Aegean_Sea" title="Aegean Sea">Aegean Sea</a> to the Middle East. He acquired the title <i>Poliorcetes</i> ("the besieger") after the unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(305%E2%80%93304_BC)" title="Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)">siege of Rhodes</a> in 305. While Antigonus I and Demetrius planned a revival of the <a href="/wiki/League_of_Corinth" title="League of Corinth">Hellenic League</a> with themselves as dual hegemons, a coalition of the <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">diadochi</a>; Cassander, <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I</a>, Ptolemy I, and <a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a> defeated the two at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ipsus" title="Battle of Ipsus">Battle of Ipsus</a> in 301 BC, in which Antigonus I was killed and the Asian territory of his empire was lost. In 294, Demetrius managed to successfully seize control of Athens and establish himself as king of Macedon. He ruled until 288 when he was eventually driven out by <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus</a> and Lysimachus and later surrendered to Seleucus I in <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>, dying there in 283.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a long period of instability, Demetrius's son, <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus II Gonatas</a>, managed to solidify the dynasty in the kingdom and establish its hegemony over much of Hellenistic Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Demetrius was particularly involved in innovations in <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">poliorcetics</a>, and although not <a href="/wiki/List_of_sieges_conducted_by_Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes" title="List of sieges conducted by Demetrius I Poliorcetes">all of his sieges</a> were successful—such as the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(305%E2%80%93304_BC)" title="Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)">siege of Rhodes</a>—he left his mark on the history of global <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege warfare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was notably through the extensive use of <a href="/wiki/Siege_engine" title="Siege engine">siege engines</a>, the establishment of effective <a href="/wiki/Logistics" title="Logistics">logistical procedures</a> to support sieges on a much larger scale than previously, the widespread use of <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_warfare" title="Amphibious warfare">amphibious warfare</a> and finally the very quick pace of execution of his sieges.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Demetrius also used his skills as a military architect to fortify cities with <a href="/wiki/Fortification" title="Fortification">defensive architectural innovations</a>, such as, notably, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicyon" title="Sicyon">Sicyon</a> or <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He can be considered one of the main Epigoni, the heirs of the <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">Diadochi</a>. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tetradrachm,_290-289,_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg/300px-Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg/450px-Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg/600px-Tetradrachm%2C_290-289%2C_Demetrius_Poliorketes_-_Macedonia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Coin of Demetrius I; Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ([coin] of King Demetrius)</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Demetrius served with his father, <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Second_War_of_the_Diadochi" title="Second War of the Diadochi">Second War of the Diadochi</a>. He participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paraitakene" title="Battle of Paraitakene">Battle of Paraitakene</a> where he commanded the cavalry on the right flank. Despite the Antigonid left flank, commanded by <a href="/wiki/Peithon" title="Peithon">Peithon</a>, being routed, and the center, commanded by Antigonus, being dealt heavy losses at the hands of the famous <a href="/wiki/Silver_Shields" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Shields">Silver Shields</a>, Demetrius was victorious on the right, and his success there ultimately prevented the battle from being a complete loss. </p><p>Demetrius was again present at the conclusive <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gabiene" title="Battle of Gabiene">Battle of Gabiene</a>. Directly after the battle, while Antigonus held the betrayed <a href="/wiki/Eumenes" title="Eumenes">Eumenes</a>, Demetrius was one of the few who implored his father to spare the Greek successor's life. </p><p>At the age of twenty-one he was left by his father to defend <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> against <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy</a> the son of <a href="/wiki/Lagus" title="Lagus">Lagus</a>. He was defeated at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(312_BC)" title="Battle of Gaza (312 BC)">Battle of Gaza</a>, but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Myus" title="Battle of Myus">Battle of Myus</a>, against a general of Ptolemy, <a href="/wiki/Cilles" title="Cilles">Cilles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the spring of 310, he was soundly defeated when he tried to expel <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a> from <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>; his father was defeated in the autumn. As a result of this <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_War" title="Babylonian War">Babylonian War</a>, Antigonus lost almost two thirds of his empire: all eastern satrapies fell to Seleucus. </p><p>After several campaigns against Ptolemy on the coasts of <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, Demetrius sailed with a fleet of 250 ships to <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>. He freed the city from the power of <a href="/wiki/Cassander" title="Cassander">Cassander</a> and Ptolemy, expelled the garrison which had been stationed there under <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum" title="Demetrius of Phalerum">Demetrius of Phalerum</a>, and besieged and took <a href="/wiki/Munychia" class="mw-redirect" title="Munychia">Munychia</a> (307 BC). After these victories he was worshipped by the Athenians as a <a href="/wiki/Tutelary_deity" title="Tutelary deity">tutelary deity</a> under the title of <i>Soter</i> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Σωτήρ</span>, "Saviour").<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this time Demetrius married Eurydike, an Athenian noblewoman who was reputed to be descendant from <a href="/wiki/Miltiades" title="Miltiades">Miltiades</a>; she was the widow of <a href="/wiki/Ophellas" title="Ophellas">Ophellas</a>, Ptolemy's governor of <a href="/wiki/Cyrene,_Libya" title="Cyrene, Libya">Cyrene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Antigonus sent Demetrius instructions to sail to Cyprus and attack Ptolemy's positions there. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg/220px-Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg/330px-Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg/440px-Battle_between_Ptolemy_and_Demetrius_Poliorcetes_off_Salamis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="947" data-file-height="643" /></a><figcaption>Battle between Ptolemy and Demetrius Poliorcetes off Salamis.</figcaption></figure> <p>Demetrius sailed from Athens in the spring of 306 BC and in accordance with his father's orders he first went to Caria where he summoned the <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodians</a> in an unsuccessful attempt to support his naval campaign. In the campaign of 306 BC, he defeated Ptolemy and <a href="/wiki/Menelaus_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Menelaus (general)">Menelaus</a>, Ptolemy's brother, in the naval <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis_in_Cyprus_(306_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC)">Battle of Salamis</a>, completely destroying the naval power of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemaic Egypt">Ptolemaic Egypt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Demetrius conquered Cyprus in 306 BC, capturing one of Ptolemy's sons.<sup id="cite_ref-walk_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walk-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the victory, Antigonus assumed the title "king" and bestowed the same upon his son Demetrius. In 305 BC, he endeavoured to punish the <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodians</a> for having deserted his cause; his ingenuity in devising new <a href="/wiki/Siege_engines" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege engines">siege engines</a> in his (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to reduce the capital gained him the title of Poliorcetes.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his creations were a <a href="/wiki/Battering_ram" title="Battering ram">battering ram</a> 180 feet (55 m) long, requiring 1000 men to operate it; and a wheeled <a href="/wiki/Siege_tower" title="Siege tower">siege tower</a> named "<a href="/wiki/Helepolis" title="Helepolis">Helepolis</a>" (or "Taker of Cities") which stood 125 feet (38 m) tall and 60 feet (18 m) wide, weighing 360,000 pounds (160,000 kg). After failing to conquer Rhodes the weapons were abandoned. With the bronze from these weapons used by the Rhodians to construct the Colossus of Rhodes. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg/190px-Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg/286px-Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg/381px-Coin_of_Demetrius_I_of_Macedon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1553" data-file-height="1582" /></a><figcaption>Demetrius I Poliorcetes portrayed on a <a href="/wiki/Tetradrachm" title="Tetradrachm">tetradrachm</a> coin</figcaption></figure> <p>In 304 BC, he returned a second time to Greece as liberator, and reinstated the <a href="/wiki/Corinthian_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Corinthian League">Corinthian League</a>, but his licentiousness and extravagance made the Athenians long for the government of Cassander.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his outrages was his courtship of a young boy named Democles the Handsome. The youth kept on refusing his attention but one day found himself cornered at the baths. Having no way out and being unable to physically resist his suitor, he took the lid off the hot water cauldron and jumped in. His death was seen as a mark of honor for himself and his country. In another instance, Demetrius waived a fine of 50 talents imposed on a citizen in exchange for the favors of Cleaenetus, that man's son.<sup id="cite_ref-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also sought the attention of Lamia, a Greek courtesan. He demanded 250 talents from the Athenians, which he then gave to Lamia and other courtesans to buy soap and cosmetics.<sup id="cite_ref-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also roused the jealousy of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Diadochi" title="Diadochi">Diadochi</a>; <a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus</a>, Cassander and <a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a> united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ipsus" title="Battle of Ipsus">Battle of Ipsus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Phrygia</a> (301 BC). Antigonus was killed, and Demetrius, after sustaining severe losses, retired to <a href="/wiki/Ephesus" title="Ephesus">Ephesus</a>. This reversal of fortune stirred up many enemies against him—the Athenians refused even to admit him into their city. But he soon afterwards <a href="/wiki/Campaign_of_the_Chersonese" title="Campaign of the Chersonese">ravaged the territory of Lysimachus and effected a reconciliation with Seleucus</a>, to whom he gave his daughter <a href="/wiki/Stratonice_of_Syria" title="Stratonice of Syria">Stratonice</a> in marriage. Athens was at this time oppressed by the tyranny of <a href="/wiki/Lachares" title="Lachares">Lachares</a>—a popular leader who made himself supreme in Athens in 296 BC—but Demetrius, after a protracted blockade, gained possession of the city (294 BC) and pardoned the inhabitants for their misconduct in 301 BC in a great display of mercy, a trait Demetrius highly valued in a ruler.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:258px;max-width:258px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:92px;max-width:92px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg/90px-Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg/135px-Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg/180px-Hephaistion_Prado_bronze_head.jpg 2x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="378" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:162px;max-width:162px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG/160px-Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG/240px-Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG/320px-Di%C3%A1doco_Retrato._Bronce._300-280_aC_Museo_del_Prado.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1455" data-file-height="1464" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Bronze portrait head, as of September 2007 housed in the <a href="/wiki/Museo_del_Prado" title="Museo del Prado">Prado Museum</a>, Madrid. This head is no longer identified as <a href="/wiki/Hephaestion" title="Hephaestion">Hephaestion</a>, and instead may be Demetrius.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <p>After Athens' capitulation, Demetrius formed a new government which espoused a major dislocation of traditional democratic forms, which anti Macedonian democrats would have called oligarchy. The cyclical rotation of the secretaries of the Council and the election of archons by allotment, were both abolished. In 294/3 - 293/2 BC, two of the most prominent men in Athens were designated by the Macedonian king, Olympiordoros and <a href="/wiki/Philippides_of_Paiania" title="Philippides of Paiania">Phillipides of Paiania</a>. Their appointment by the King is implied by Plutarch who says that "he established the archons which were most acceptable to the Demos."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King_of_Macedonia">King of Macedonia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: King of Macedonia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg/230px-Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg/345px-Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg/460px-Wall_painting_from_Room_H_of_the_Villa_of_P._Fannius_Synistor_at_Boscoreale_MET_DP140600.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3883" data-file-height="3614" /></a><figcaption>A fresco in <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> possibly depicting <a href="/wiki/Lanassa_(wife_of_Pyrrhus)" title="Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)">Lanassa</a> and Demetrius I, ca. 50–40 BC.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In 294 BC, he established himself on the throne of Macedonia by murdering <a href="/wiki/Alexander_V_of_Macedon" title="Alexander V of Macedon">Alexander V</a>, the son of Cassander.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He faced rebellion from the <a href="/wiki/Boeotians" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeotians">Boeotians</a> but secured the region after <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Thebes_(292-291_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Thebes (292-291 BC)">capturing Thebes</a> in 291 BC. That year he married <a href="/wiki/Lanassa_(wife_of_Pyrrhus)" title="Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)">Lanassa</a>, the former wife of <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus</a>, but his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by Pyrrhus, who took advantage of his occasional absence to ravage the defenceless part of his kingdom (<a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Pyrrhus</i>, 7 ff.); at length, the combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus, assisted by the disaffected among his own subjects, obliged him to leave Macedonia in 288 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Athens_(287_BC)" title="Siege of Athens (287 BC)">besieging Athens</a> without success he passed into Asia and attacked some of the provinces of Lysimachus with varying success. Famine and pestilence destroyed the greater part of his army, and he solicited Seleucus' support and assistance. However, before he reached Syria hostilities broke out, and after he had gained some advantages over his son-in-law, Demetrius was totally forsaken by his troops on the field of battle and surrendered to Seleucus. </p><p>His son <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus</a> offered all his possessions, and even his own person, in order to procure his father's liberty, but all proved unavailing, and Demetrius died after a confinement of three years (283 BC). His remains were given to Antigonus and honoured with a splendid funeral at <a href="/wiki/Corinth,_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Corinth, Greece">Corinth</a>. His descendants remained in possession of the Macedonian throne until the time of <a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus</a>, when Macedon was conquered by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Romans</a> in 168 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_legacy">Military legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Military legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Besieger_and_logistician">Besieger and logistician</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Besieger and logistician"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_sieges_conducted_by_Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes" title="List of sieges conducted by Demetrius I Poliorcetes">List of sieges conducted by Demetrius I Poliorcetes</a></div> <p>During his 30-year military career, from the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paraitakene" title="Battle of Paraitakene">Battle of Paraitakene</a> in 317 BC to his final defeat, Demetrius proved to be a hugely effective commander during <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">sieges</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notably, he managed to use the innovations introduced by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander</a>, scaling them up to greater extents.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, besides the massive and widespread use of <a href="/wiki/Siege_engine" title="Siege engine">siege engines</a>, which he standardized in <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_armies" title="Hellenistic armies">Hellenistic warfare</a>, Demetrius was an excellent <a href="/wiki/Logistics" title="Logistics">logistician</a>, able to maintain sieges on unprecedented scales.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Antigonid also engaged in <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_warfare" title="Amphibious warfare">amphibious siege warfare</a>, frequently conducting sieges both by sea and land.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, despite some failed sieges, especially the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(305%E2%80%93304_BC)" title="Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)">siege of Rhodes</a> where Demetrius did not appear to make significant tactical or strategic errors, he employed a siege warfare strategy sometimes described as 'blitzkrieg'.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his campaigns in 304-303 BC and 294-291 BC in <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, after rapid 'bursts', he captured cities one after another in a matter of months; for example, in 304-303 BC, he successively seized <a href="/wiki/Panactum" title="Panactum">Panactum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phyle_(Attica)" title="Phyle (Attica)">Phyle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kechries" title="Kechries">Kechries</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epidaurus" title="Epidaurus">Epidaurus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicyon" title="Sicyon">Sicyon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bura_(Achaea)" title="Bura (Achaea)">Bura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skiros" class="mw-redirect" title="Skiros">Scirus (Arcadia)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Orchomenus_(Arcadia)" title="Orchomenus (Arcadia)">Orchomenus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Plutarch, Demetrius would have commanded 110,000 soldiers under his leadership in 288 BCE before facing complete defeat.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This figure is almost certainly exaggerated by the ancient author and would represent the largest concentration of manpower in the entire <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a>, more than two times larger than the force Alexander led in his initial conquests.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even if the figure is overstated, it demonstrates that Demetrius was capable of assembling significant armies, some of which were remembered as the largest of the era.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Military_engineer_and_builder">Military engineer and builder</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Military engineer and builder"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Demetrius also emerged as an important <a href="/wiki/Military_engineering" title="Military engineering">military engineer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fortification" title="Fortification">fortifier</a> of cities.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Firstly, he established effective strategies and developed new siege engines to address specific challenges during certain sieges or to experiment with new methods of siege warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to his interest in military engineering, Demetrius distinguished himself by constructing and erecting numerous <a href="/wiki/Fortification" title="Fortification">fortifications</a>, significantly influencing this discipline and leaving his mark on the history of the Greek world. <sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For instance, in 307-306 BC, after his first capture of <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, he undertook one of the most significant fortification projects in the city's history.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 303 BC, after capturing <a href="/wiki/Sicyon" title="Sicyon">Sicyon</a> and noticing the weaknesses in its defenses, he decided to completely relocate the city to a more defensible position and, according to <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, personally worked on the construction of the new city.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinth</a> also appears to have undergone substantial fortification work initiated by Demetrius after he conquered the city, as suggested by archaeological discoveries related to the urbanization of the city at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These elements also highlight his impact on the history of defensive siege warfare and paint the picture of a builder king.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literary_references">Literary references</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Literary references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Plutarch">Plutarch</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Plutarch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> wrote <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius*.html">a biography of Demetrius</a>, in which he is paired with <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Antony</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hegel">Hegel</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hegel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg/220px-Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg/330px-Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg/440px-Attack_of_Rhodes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3260" data-file-height="2277" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_(305-304_BC)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of Rhodes (305-304 BC)">Siege of Rhodes (305-304 BC)</a>, led by Demetrius.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a>, in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lectures_on_the_History_of_Philosophy" title="Lectures on the History of Philosophy">Lectures on the History of Philosophy</a></i>, says of another Demetrius, <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_Phalereus" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetrius Phalereus">Demetrius Phalereus</a>, that "Demetrius Phalereus and others were thus soon after [Alexander] honoured and worshipped in Athens as God."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> What the exact source was for Hegel's claim is unclear. Diogenes Laërtius in his short biography of Demetrius Phalereus does not mention this.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apparently Hegel's error comes from a misreading of <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>'s <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius*.html">Life of Demetrius</a></i> which is about Demetrius Poliorcetes and not Demetrius of Phalereus. Plutarch describes in the work how Demetrius Poliorcetes conquered Demetrius Phalereus at Athens. Then, in chapter 12 of the work, Plutarch describes how Demetrius Poliorcetes was given honors due to the god <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>. This account by Plutarch was confusing not only for Hegel, but for others as well.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Others">Others</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Others"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Plutarch's account of Demetrius's departure from Macedonia in 288 BC inspired <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Cavafy" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine Cavafy">Constantine Cavafy</a> to write "King Demetrius" (ὁ βασιλεὺς Δημήτριος) in 1906, his earliest surviving poem on an historical theme. </p><p>Demetrius is the main character of the opera <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki-score.org/doku.php?id=demetrio:index">Demetrio a Rodi</a> (Turin, 1789) with libretto<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Giandomenico Boggio and Giuseppe Banti. The music is set by <a href="/wiki/Gaetano_Pugnani" title="Gaetano Pugnani">Gaetano Pugnani</a> (1731-1798). </p><p>Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in <a href="/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp" title="L. Sprague de Camp">L. Sprague de Camp</a>'s historical novel,<i> <a href="/wiki/The_Bronze_God_of_Rhodes" title="The Bronze God of Rhodes">The Bronze God of Rhodes</a></i>, which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Duggan" title="Alfred Duggan">Alfred Duggan</a>'s novel <i>Elephants and Castles</i> provides a lively fictionalised account of his life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Demetrius was married five times: </p> <ul><li>His first wife was <a href="/wiki/Phila_(daughter_of_Antipater)" title="Phila (daughter of Antipater)">Phila</a> daughter of Regent <a href="/wiki/Antipater" title="Antipater">Antipater</a> by whom he had two children: <a href="/wiki/Stratonice_of_Syria" title="Stratonice of Syria">Stratonice of Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus II Gonatas</a>.</li> <li>His second wife was <a href="/wiki/Eurydice_of_Athens" title="Eurydice of Athens">Eurydice of Athens</a>, by whom he is said to have had a son called Corrhabus.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>His third wife was <a href="/wiki/Deidamia_I_of_Epirus" title="Deidamia I of Epirus">Deidamia</a>, a sister of <a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus of Epirus</a>. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander, who is said by <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> to have spent his life in <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemaic Egypt">Egypt</a>, probably in an honourable captivity.<sup id="cite_ref-plut2_53_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plut2_53-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>His fourth wife was <a href="/wiki/Lanassa_(wife_of_Pyrrhus)" title="Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)">Lanassa</a>, the former wife of his brother-in-law Pyrrhus of Epirus.</li> <li>His fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy I Soter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurydice_of_Egypt" title="Eurydice of Egypt">Eurydice of Egypt</a>, by whom he had a son called <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_the_Fair" title="Demetrius the Fair">Demetrius the Fair</a>.</li></ul> <p>He also had a relationship with a celebrated courtesan called <a href="/wiki/Lamia_of_Athens" title="Lamia of Athens">Lamia of Athens</a>, by whom he had a daughter called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Phila_(daughter_of_Demetrius)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phila (daughter of Demetrius) (page does not exist)">Phila</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace" title="Winged Victory of Samothrace">Winged Victory of Samothrace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sieges_conducted_by_Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes" title="List of sieges conducted by Demetrius I Poliorcetes">List of sieges conducted by Demetrius I Poliorcetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campaign_of_the_Chersonese" title="Campaign of the Chersonese">Campaign of the Chersonese</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Ellis, <i>Ptolemy of Egypt</i>, Routledge, London, 1994, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Plutarch,_Life_of_Demetrius_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Plutarch, <i>Life of Demetrius</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Prado Museum: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/retrato-en-bronce-de-un-diadoco/?no_cache=1">"Retrato en bronce de un Diádoco"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShear1978" class="citation book cs1">Shear, T. 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Maksimović, M. Ricl, ΤΗ ΠΡΟΣΦΙΛΕΣΤΑΤΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΑΡΙΣΤΗ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΡΧΙΣΣΗ: Students and Colleagues for Professor Fanoula Papazoglou (International Conference, Belgrade, October 17-18, 2017), Belgrade 2018, pp. 221-241"</a>. <i>Lj. Maksimović, M. 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S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes Laërtius">Diogenes Laërtius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lives_and_Opinions_of_Eminent_Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers">Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers</a>, Book V.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenneth Scott, "The Deification of Demetrius Poliorcetes: Part I", <i>The American Journal of Philology</i>, 49:2 (1928), pp. 137–166. See, in particular, p. 148.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H6OcHAAACAAJ">Demetrio a Rodi: festa per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio teatro di Torino per le nozze delle LL. AA. RR. Vittorio Emanuele</a>, 48p. Published by Presso O. Derossi, 1789.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0002.001/120?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image"><i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</i></a>. 16 April 1867. p. 120. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151208225354/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0002.001/120?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image">Archived</a> from the original on 8 December 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 December</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Biography+and+Mythology&rft.pages=120&rft.date=1867-04-16&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fquod.lib.umich.edu%2Fm%2Fmoa%2Facl3129.0002.001%2F120%3Fpage%3Droot%3Brgn%3Dfull%2Btext%3Bsize%3D100%3Bview%3Dimage&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADemetrius+I+Poliorcetes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-plut2_53-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-plut2_53_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Plutarch, "Demetrius", <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/old/demetrius2.html#53">53</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210515192910/https://www.attalus.org/old/demetrius2.html#53">Archived</a> 2021-05-15 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_sources">Ancient sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Ancient sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/old/demetrius1.html">Life of Demetrius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html">Library of History</a>, books 19–21</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyaenus" title="Polyaenus">Polyaenus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/polyaenus4B.html#7.1">Stratagems, 4.7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_(historian)" title="Justin (historian)">Justin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/justinus.html">Epitome of Trogus</a>, books 15–16</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athenaeus" title="Athenaeus">Athenaeus</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus6c.html#252">Deipnosophists, 6.252–255</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_works">Modern works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Demetrius_I_Poliorcetes&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Modern works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Pat Wheatley, Charlotte Dunn : <i>Demetrius the Besieger.</i> Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-883604-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-883604-9">978-0-19-883604-9</a>.</li> <li>R. M. Errington, <i>A History of the Hellenistic World</i>, pp. 33–58. Blackwell Publishing (2008). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-23388-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-631-23388-6">978-0-631-23388-6</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.livius.org/de-dh/demetrius/demetrius_poliorcetes.html">Demetrius I at Livius.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709160810/http://www.livius.org/de-dh/demetrius/demetrius_poliorcetes.html">Archived</a> 2015-07-09 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBillows1990" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Billows" title="Richard Billows">Billows, Richard A.</a> (1990). <i>Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State</i>. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-20880-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-20880-3"><bdi>0-520-20880-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Antigonos+the+One-Eyed+and+the+Creation+of+the+Hellenistic+State&rft.place=Berkeley+and+Los+Angeles%2C+California&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-520-20880-3&rft.aulast=Billows&rft.aufirst=Richard+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADemetrius+I+Poliorcetes" class="Z3988"></span>s]</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ACE777;">Regnal titles </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Antigonid_dynasty" title="Antigonid dynasty">Antigonid dynasty</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus II Gonatas</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Antipater_II_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Antipater II of Macedon">Antipater II of Macedon</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Macedon">King of Macedon</a> </b><br />294–288 BC </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: 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Macedon">Aeropus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcetas_I_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcetas I of Macedon">Alcetas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_I_of_Macedon" title="Amyntas I of Macedon">Amyntas I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Macedon" title="Alexander I of Macedon">Alexander I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perdiccas_II_of_Macedon" title="Perdiccas II of Macedon">Perdiccas II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archelaus_I_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Archelaus I of Macedon">Archelaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orestes_of_Macedon" title="Orestes of Macedon">Orestes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aeropus_II_of_Macedon" title="Aeropus II of Macedon">Aeropus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_II_of_Macedon" title="Amyntas II of Macedon">Amyntas II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_of_Macedon" title="Pausanias of Macedon">Pausanias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_III_of_Macedon" title="Amyntas III of Macedon">Amyntas III</a> <ul><li><small><a 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href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_Aetolicus" title="Demetrius II Aetolicus">Demetrius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_III_Doson" title="Antigonus III Doson">Antigonus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-Conquest Rebel Kings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andriscus" title="Andriscus"><i>Andriscus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Alexander" title="Pseudo-Alexander"><i>Pseudo-Alexander</i></a></li> <li><i>Pseudo-Philip/Pseudo-Perseus</i></li> <li><i>Euephenes</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>Debatable or disputed rulers are in <i>italics</i>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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title="Alexander IV of Macedon">Alexander IV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Antipatrid_dynasty" title="Antipatrid dynasty">Antipatrids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cassander" title="Cassander">Cassander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_IV_of_Macedon" title="Philip IV of Macedon">Philip IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_V_of_Macedon" title="Alexander V of Macedon">Alexander V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antipater_II_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Antipater II of Macedon">Antipater II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antipater_Etesias" title="Antipater Etesias">Antipater Etesias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sosthenes_of_Macedon" title="Sosthenes of Macedon">Sosthenes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Antigonid_dynasty" title="Antigonid dynasty">Antigonids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_I_Monophthalmus" title="Antigonus I Monophthalmus">Antigonus I Monophthalmus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetrius I of Macedon">Demetrius I Poliorcetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_II_Gonatas" title="Antigonus II Gonatas">Antigonus II Gonatas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_Aetolicus" title="Demetrius II Aetolicus">Demetrius II Aetolicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigonus_III_Doson" title="Antigonus III Doson">Antigonus III Doson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Macedon" title="Philip V of Macedon">Philip V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseus_of_Macedon" title="Perseus of Macedon">Perseus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriscus" title="Andriscus">Philip VI</a> (pretender)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom" title="Ptolemaic Kingdom">Ptolemies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter" title="Ptolemy I Soter">Ptolemy I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Keraunos" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy Keraunos">Ptolemy Keraunos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus" title="Ptolemy II Philadelphus">Ptolemy II Philadelphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_III_Euergetes" title="Ptolemy III Euergetes">Ptolemy III Euergetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IV_Philopator" title="Ptolemy IV Philopator">Ptolemy IV Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_V_Epiphanes" title="Ptolemy V Epiphanes">Ptolemy V Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_I_Syra" title="Cleopatra I Syra">Cleopatra I Syra</a> (regent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VI_Philometor" title="Ptolemy VI Philometor">Ptolemy VI Philometor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VII_Neos_Philopator" title="Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator">Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_II_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleopatra II of Egypt">Cleopatra II Philometor Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VIII_Physcon" title="Ptolemy VIII Physcon">Ptolemy VIII Physcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_III_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleopatra III of Egypt">Cleopatra III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_IX_Lathyros" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy IX Lathyros">Ptolemy IX Lathyros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_X_Alexander_I" title="Ptolemy X Alexander I">Ptolemy X Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_III_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Berenice III of Egypt">Berenice III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XI_Alexander_II" title="Ptolemy XI Alexander II">Ptolemy XI Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XII_Auletes" title="Ptolemy XII Auletes">Ptolemy XII Auletes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_VI" title="Cleopatra VI">Cleopatra VI Tryphaena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_IV" title="Berenice IV">Berenice IV Epiphanea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XIII_Theos_Philopator" title="Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator">Ptolemy XIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_XIV_of_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy XIV of Egypt">Ptolemy XIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra VII Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesarion" title="Caesarion">Ptolemy XV Caesarion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Cyrene" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Cyrene">Monarchs of Cyrene</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Magas_of_Cyrene" title="Magas of Cyrene">Magas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_II_of_Egypt" title="Berenice II of Egypt">Berenice II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_the_Fair" title="Demetrius the Fair">Demetrius the Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_VIII_Physcon" title="Ptolemy VIII Physcon">Ptolemy VIII Physcon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Apion" title="Ptolemy Apion">Ptolemy Apion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Selene_II" title="Cleopatra Selene II">Cleopatra Selene II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator" title="Seleucus I Nicator">Seleucus I Nicator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_I_Soter" title="Antiochus I Soter">Antiochus I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_II_Theos" title="Antiochus II Theos">Antiochus II Theos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_II_Callinicus" title="Seleucus II Callinicus">Seleucus II Callinicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_III_Ceraunus" title="Seleucus III Ceraunus">Seleucus III Ceraunus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_III_the_Great" title="Antiochus III the Great">Antiochus III the Great</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_IV_Philopator" title="Seleucus IV Philopator">Seleucus IV Philopator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IV_Epiphanes" title="Antiochus IV Epiphanes">Antiochus IV Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_V_Eupator" title="Antiochus V Eupator">Antiochus V Eupator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_Soter" title="Demetrius I Soter">Demetrius I Soter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Balas" title="Alexander Balas">Alexander I Balas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_Nicator" title="Demetrius II Nicator">Demetrius II Nicator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VI_Dionysus" title="Antiochus VI Dionysus">Antiochus VI Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_Tryphon" title="Diodotus Tryphon">Diodotus Tryphon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VII_Sidetes" title="Antiochus VII Sidetes">Antiochus VII Sidetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_II_Zabinas" title="Alexander II Zabinas">Alexander II Zabinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Thea" title="Cleopatra Thea">Cleopatra Thea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_V_Philometor" title="Seleucus V Philometor">Seleucus V Philometor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_VIII_Grypus" title="Antiochus VIII Grypus">Antiochus VIII Grypus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_IX_Cyzicenus" title="Antiochus IX Cyzicenus">Antiochus IX Cyzicenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seleucus_VI_Epiphanes" title="Seleucus VI Epiphanes">Seleucus VI Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_X_Eusebes" title="Antiochus X Eusebes">Antiochus X Eusebes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XI_Epiphanes" title="Antiochus XI Epiphanes">Antiochus XI Epiphanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_III_Eucaerus" title="Demetrius III Eucaerus">Demetrius III Eucaerus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_I_Philadelphus" title="Philip I Philadelphus">Philip I Philadelphus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XII_Dionysus" title="Antiochus XII Dionysus">Antiochus XII Dionysus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Selene_of_Syria" title="Cleopatra Selene of Syria">Cleopatra Selene I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antiochus_XIII_Asiaticus" title="Antiochus XIII Asiaticus">Antiochus XIII Asiaticus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_II_Philoromaeus" title="Philip II Philoromaeus">Philip II Philoromaeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lysimachus" title="Lysimachus">Lysimachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_Epigonos" title="Ptolemy Epigonos">Ptolemy Epigonos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Attalid_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Attalid dynasty">Attalids</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philetaerus" title="Philetaerus">Philetaerus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_I" title="Eumenes I">Eumenes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_I" title="Attalus I">Attalus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_II" title="Eumenes II">Eumenes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_II_Philadelphus" title="Attalus II Philadelphus">Attalus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attalus_III" title="Attalus III">Attalus III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumenes_III" title="Eumenes III">Eumenes III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom" title="Greco-Bactrian Kingdom">Greco-Bactrians</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_I" title="Diodotus I">Diodotus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodotus_II" title="Diodotus II">Diodotus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_I" title="Euthydemus I">Euthydemus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria" title="Demetrius I of Bactria">Demetrius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthydemus_II" title="Euthydemus II">Euthydemus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_I" title="Antimachus I">Antimachus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantaleon" title="Pantaleon">Pantaleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Bactria" title="Agathocles of Bactria">Agathocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_of_India" title="Demetrius II of India">Demetrius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucratides_I" title="Eucratides I">Eucratides I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plato_of_Bactria" title="Plato of Bactria">Plato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucratides_II" title="Eucratides II">Eucratides II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliocles_I" title="Heliocles I">Heliocles I</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom" title="Indo-Greek Kingdom">Indo-Greeks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Bactria" title="Demetrius I of Bactria">Demetrius I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_I" title="Antimachus I">Antimachus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantaleon" title="Pantaleon">Pantaleon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathocles_of_Bactria" title="Agathocles of Bactria">Agathocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollodotus_I" title="Apollodotus I">Apollodotus I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_II_of_India" title="Demetrius II of India">Demetrius II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antimachus_II" title="Antimachus II">Antimachus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_I" title="Menander I">Menander I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoilos_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoilos I">Zoilos I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agathokleia" class="mw-redirect" title="Agathokleia">Agathokleia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysias_Anicetus" title="Lysias Anicetus">Lysias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_I" title="Strato I">Strato I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antialcidas" title="Antialcidas">Antialcidas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliokles_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Heliokles II">Heliokles II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyxenos_Epiphanes_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter">Polyxenos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_III_Aniketos" title="Demetrius III Aniketos">Demetrius III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philoxenus_Anicetus" title="Philoxenus Anicetus">Philoxenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diomedes_Soter" title="Diomedes Soter">Diomedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amyntas_Nikator" class="mw-redirect" title="Amyntas Nikator">Amyntas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epander" title="Epander">Epander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theophilos_(king)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theophilos (king)">Theophilos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peukolaos" class="mw-redirect" title="Peukolaos">Peukolaos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thraso" title="Thraso">Thraso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicias_(Indo-Greek_king)" title="Nicias (Indo-Greek king)">Nicias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_II" title="Menander II">Menander II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemidoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemidoros">Artemidoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermaeus" title="Hermaeus">Hermaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archebius" title="Archebius">Archebius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telephos_Euergetes" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephos Euergetes">Telephos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollodotus_II" title="Apollodotus II">Apollodotus II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippostratos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippostratos">Hippostratos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysios_Soter" class="mw-redirect" title="Dionysios Soter">Dionysios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoilos_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoilos II">Zoilos II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollophanes" title="Apollophanes">Apollophanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_II" title="Strato II">Strato II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strato_III" title="Strato III">Strato III</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Bithynia" title="List of rulers of Bithynia">Monarchs of Bithynia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boteiras_of_Bithynia" title="Boteiras of Bithynia">Boteiras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bas_of_Bithynia" title="Bas of Bithynia">Bas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipoetes_I_of_Bithynia" title="Zipoetes I of Bithynia">Zipoetes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_I_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes I of Bithynia">Nicomedes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zipoetes_II_of_Bithynia" title="Zipoetes II of Bithynia">Zipoetes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etazeta_of_Bithynia" title="Etazeta of Bithynia">Etazeta</a> (regent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziaelas_of_Bithynia" title="Ziaelas of Bithynia">Ziaelas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prusias_I_of_Bithynia" title="Prusias I of Bithynia">Prusias I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prusias_II_of_Bithynia" title="Prusias II of Bithynia">Prusias II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_II_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes II of Bithynia">Nicomedes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_III_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes III of Bithynia">Nicomedes III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicomedes_IV_of_Bithynia" title="Nicomedes IV of Bithynia">Nicomedes IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socrates_Chrestus" title="Socrates Chrestus">Socrates Chrestus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="List of kings of Pontus">Monarchs of Pontus</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates I of Pontus">Mithridates I Ctistes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariobarzanes_of_Pontus" title="Ariobarzanes of Pontus">Ariobarzanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_II_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates II of Pontus">Mithridates II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_III_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates III of Pontus">Mithridates III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_I_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces I of Pontus">Pharnaces I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_IV_of_Pontus" title="Mithridates IV of Pontus">Mithridates IV Philopator Philadephos</a> with <a href="/wiki/Laodice_(sister-wife_of_Mithridates_IV_of_Pontus)" title="Laodice (sister-wife of Mithridates IV of Pontus)">Laodice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_V_of_Pontus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithridates V of Pontus">Mithridates V Euergetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithridates_VI_Eupator" title="Mithridates VI Eupator">Mithridates VI Eupator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharnaces_II_of_Pontus" title="Pharnaces II of Pontus">Pharnaces II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darius_of_Pontus" title="Darius of Pontus">Darius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsaces_of_Pontus" title="Arsaces of 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_I_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes I of Cappadocia">Ariarathes I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_II_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes II of Cappadocia">Ariarathes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariamnes_of_Cappadocia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ariamnes of Cappadocia">Ariamnes II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_III_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes III of Cappadocia">Ariarathes III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_IV_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia">Ariarathes IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_V_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes V of Cappadocia">Ariarathes V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orophernes_of_Cappadocia" title="Orophernes of Cappadocia">Orophernes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_VI_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes VI of Cappadocia">Ariarathes VI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ariarathes_VII_of_Cappadocia" title="Ariarathes VII of Cappadocia">Ariarathes VII</a></li> <li><a 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navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paerisades_I" title="Paerisades I">Paerisades I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyros_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Satyros II">Satyros II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prytanis_of_Bosporus" title="Prytanis of Bosporus">Prytanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumelos_of_Bosporus" class="mw-redirect" title="Eumelos of Bosporus">Eumelos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spartokos_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartokos III">Spartokos III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygiainon" class="mw-redirect" title="Hygiainon">Hygiainon</a> (regent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paerisades_II" title="Paerisades II">Paerisades II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spartokos_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="Spartokos IV">Spartokos IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leukon_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Leukon II">Leukon II</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spartokos_V&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spartokos V 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title="Cato the Elder">Cato the Elder</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus" title="Marcus Licinius Crassus">Crassus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nicias" title="Nicias">Nicias</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetrius I of Macedon">Demetrius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Antony</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demosthenes" title="Demosthenes">Demosthenes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dion_of_Syracuse" title="Dion of Syracuse">Dion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus" title="Marcus Junius Brutus">Brutus</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus">Fabius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pericles" title="Pericles">Pericles</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a 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title="Pompey">Pompey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Agesilaus_II" title="Agesilaus II">Agesilaus</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Publius_Valerius_Poplicola" title="Publius Valerius Poplicola">Poplicola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solon" title="Solon">Solon</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus" title="Pyrrhus of Epirus">Pyrrhus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Gaius Marius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romulus" title="Romulus">Romulus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Sertorius" title="Quintus Sertorius">Sertorius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eumenes" title="Eumenes">Eumenes</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agis_IV" title="Agis IV">Agis</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cleomenes_III" title="Cleomenes III">Cleomenes</a><sup><small>1</small></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus" title="Tiberius Gracchus">Tiberius Gracchus</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus" title="Gaius Gracchus">Gaius Gracchus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timoleon" title="Timoleon">Timoleon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Aemilius_Paullus_Macedonicus" title="Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus">Aemilius Paulus</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus" title="Marcus Furius Camillus">Camillus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Translators and editors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Amyot" title="Jacques Amyot">Jacques Amyot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough" title="Arthur Hugh Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philemon_Holland" title="Philemon Holland">Philemon 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