Demetrius
First member of the Antigonid Dynasty to rule Macedonia. Son of Antigonus.
Group
Events
- Antigonus gives power over the Syrians and Phoenicians to Demetrius
- Ptolemy overtakes Demetrius in battle
- Demetrius defeats Menelaus and Ptolemy at sea
- Ptolemy returns to Egypt to be overcome by Antigonus and Demetrius
- Ptolemy saves his empire against all odds
- Antigonus directs Demetrius to overtake the Rhodians
- Alexander and Cassander summon Demetrius to Macedon
- Demetrius murders Alexander
- Demetrius becomes ruler of Macedon
- Demetrius meets Lysimachus in battle at Amphipolis
- Demetrius travels to Asia to fight Seleucus
- Demetrius loses the battle with Seleucus
- The friendship between Lysimachus and Phyrrus ends
- Pyrrhus expels Demetrius from Macedonia
- Pyrrhus aquires elephants from his battle with Demetrius
- The Spartans go to war with Demetrius
Citations
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 1.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 6.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 6.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 10.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 10.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 11.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 12.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 13.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 16.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 16.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.7
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 7.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 34.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 6.4
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