Cassander (brother of Antipater)

Cassander (Greek: Κάσσανδρος) was a Greek Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC.

Cassander was the son of Iolaus by an unnamed mother and brother of the powerful Regent and general Antipater.^[1] Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty.^[2] Cassander, like Antipater, was originally from the Macedonian city of Paliura^[3] and was a contemporary to Aristotle.^[4]

Little is known on his life. He married an unnamed Greek Macedonian noblewoman by whom he had a child: a daughter called Antigone^[5] who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas^[6] by whom she had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.^[7] His namesake was his nephew Cassander.

References

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• H.J. Rose, A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 2, T. Fellowes, 1857
• W. Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
• Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: Antipatrids
• Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I