General Notes

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Birth: in 336 BC, Macedonia 1
Death: in 283 BC, Cilicia [Turkey] 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 294 to 288 BC, King of Macedonia 2
Note:
Demetrius I POLIORCETES (b. 336 BC, Macedonia--d. 283, Cilicia [now in
Turkey]), king of Macedonia from 294 to 288 BC.
Demetrius was the son of Alexander the Great's general Antigonus I
Monophthalmus, in whose campaigns he commanded with distinction and whose
empire, based in Asia, he attempted to rebuild. Unsuccessful against
Ptolemy I Soter, satrap of Egypt, and against the Nabataeans, he
liberated Athens from the Macedonian Cassander in 307 BC and in 306
decisively defeated Ptolemy at Salamis (Cyprus). From his unsuccessful
siege of Rhodes (305) he won the title Poliorcetes ("the Besieger").
Recalled by his father from Greece, he fought in the Battle of Ipsus, in
which his father was killed and lost much of his empire (301). Demetrius
kept a foothold in Greece and in 294 reoccupied Athens and established
himself as king of Macedonia, but in 288 he was driven out by his rivals
Lysimachus and Pyrrhus. He finally surrendered to Seleucus I Nicator in
Cilicia (285) and died there (283). He is the subject of one of
Plutarch's Lives. [Encyclopædia Britannica