General Notes

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Birth: in c. 397 BC 1
Death: in 319 BC 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Progenitor X
Event: Ruled 334 - 323 BC, Regent of Macedonia 1
Event: Ruled 321 - 319 BC, Regent of the Macedonian Empire 1
Note: Antipater (b. c. 397 BC--d. 319), Macedonian general, regent of
Macedonia (334-23) and of the Macedonian Empire (321-319) whose death
signalled the end of centralized authority in the empire. One of the
leading men in Macedonia at the death of Philip II in 336, he helped to
secure the succession to the Macedonian throne for Philip's son,
Alexander the Great, who upon departure for the conquest of Asia (334)
appointed Antipater regent in Macedonia with the title of general in
Europe. Antipater's main task was to hold the northern frontiers against
hostile tribes and to keep order among the Greek states. He ruled Greece
by cooperating with the League of Corinth but was unpopular because he
supported oligarchic governments. The settlement of the satrapies
(provinces) of the Macedonian Empire by the new regent, Perdiccas, at
Babylon in 323, immediately after Alexander's death, left Antipater in
control of Macedonia and Greece, though as former regent his status in
relation to Perdiccas was not clearly defined. Antipater then took the
side of the Macedonian generals Antigonus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy, who
were opposed to the claims of Perdiccas. By the settlement at
Triparadisus, Syria (321), after Perdiccas' death, Antipater became
regent of the Macedonian Empire for the two kings: the intellectually
retarded Philip III Arrhidaeus and the infant Alexander IV