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'''Cassander''' (c. [[350 BC|350]] - [[297 BC]]; in Greek ''Κάσσανδρος'', '''Kassandros'''), king of [[Macedon]]ia ([[305 BC|305]] - [[297 BC]]), eldest son of [[Antipater]], and founder of [[Antipatrid dynasty]].

He first appears at the court of [[Alexander the Great]] at Babylon, where he defended his father against the accusations of his enemies. Having been passed over by his father in favour of [[Polyperchon]] as his successor in the regency of Macedonia, Cassander allied himself with [[Ptolemy I of Egypt|Ptolemy Soter]] and [[Antigonus I Monophthalmus|Antigonus]] and declared war against the regent. Most of the Greek states went over to him, including [[Athens]]. He further effected an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King [[Philip III of Macedon|Philip Arrhidaeus]] of Macedon.

Both she and her husband, however, together with Cassander's brother [[Nicanor]], were soon after slain by [[Olympias]]. Cassander at once marched against Olympias and, having forced her to surrender in [[Pydna]], put her to death ([[316 BC]]). In [[310 BC]]/[[309 BC]] he also poisoned [[Roxana]] and the nominal King [[Alexander IV of Macedon]], respectively the wife and son of Alexander the Great in [[323 BC]]. He also bribed Polyperchon to poison Alexander's illegitimate son [[Heracles (Macedon)|Heracles]].

He had already connected himself with the royal family by marriage with Thessalonica, half-sister of Alexander the Great, and, having formed an alliance with [[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus]], Ptolemy and [[Lysimachus]] against Antigonus, he became, on the defeat and death of Antigonus around [[301 BC]], undisputed sovereign of Macedonia. He died of dropsy in [[297 BC]].

Cassander was a man of literary taste but violent and ambitious. He restored [[Thebes]] after its destruction by Alexander the Great, transformed Therma into [[Thessalonica]], and built the new city of [[Cassandreia]] upon the ruins of [[Potidaea]].

== References ==
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Bibliotheca'' chapters xviii, xix, xx
*[[Plutarch]], ''[[Parallel Lives]]'', "[[Demetrius I of Macedon|Demetrius]]", 18, 31; "[[Phocion]]", 31

*Franca Landucci Gattinoni: L'arte del potere. Vita e opere di Cassandro di Macedonia. Stuttgart 2003. ISBN 3-515-08381-2

== External link ==
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/s016/f020716.htm A genealogical tree of Cassander]

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