Antipater (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Hellenistic leaders 1.1 Herodians 2 Philosophers 3 Writers 4 Other

Several notable persons of the ancient world were named (Latin) "Antipater", (Greek) Antipatros (Αντιπατρος, literally meaning "like the father"):

[edit] Hellenistic leaders

• Antipater (c. 397–319 BC), Macedonian general
• Antipater II of Macedon king of Macedon from 297 to 297 BC
• Antipater Etesias (died 279 BC), king of Macedon
• Antipater of Derbe

[edit] Herodians

• Antipater the Idumaean (1st century BC), father of Herod the Great
• Antipater (son of Herod I), (died 4 BC), son of Herod the Great

[edit] Philosophers

• Antipater of Cyrene (c. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Cyrenaic school.
• Antipater of Sidon (2nd century BC), best known for his list of the Seven Wonders of the World
• Antipater of Tarsus (2nd century BC), Stoic philosopher
• Antipater of Tyre (1st century BC), Stoic philosopher

[edit] Writers

• Antipater of Thessalonica (1st century BC), poet
• Antipater (1st century BC physician)
• Aelius Antipater, writer and governor (Severan era)
• Lucius Coelius Antipater, annalist, 2nd c BC
• Antipater (2nd century physician)
• Antipater, a writer on the interpretation of dreams (Oneirocritica iv. 64.), mentioned by Artemidorus.

• Antipater of Acanthus, a Greek grammarian of uncertain date (Ptolem. Heph. ap. Phot. Cod. 190; Eustath. ad Horn. Od. xi. p. 453), who is probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes. (Av. 1403.)

• Antipater was an astrologer or mathematician, who wrote a work upon genethialogia, in which he endeavoured to explain man's fate, not from the circumstances under which he was born, but from those under which he had been conceived. (Vitruv. ix. 7.)

• Antipater was a bishop of Bostra in Arabia, who flourished about 460. His chief work was "Antirresis", a reply to Pamphilus's "Apology for Origen", some fragments of which are contained in the Acts of the 2nd Council of Nice. He also wrote a homily on John the Baptist, and some other discourses. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace, x. p. 518 ; /ave, Hist. Litt. sub ann. 460.)

[edit] Other

• Antipater, a celebrated silver-chaser (Naturalis Historia, xxxiii.55)

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).