Item: i25856

 

Authentic Ancient

Coin of:

Greek city of Sparta (Lacedaemon, Lakedaimon) in the Peloponnesus
Bronze 14mm (2.52 grams) Struck circa 70-50 B.C.

Bearded head of Zeus right.

Two amphoras.

Comprising the south-eastern portion of the Peloponnese,
Lakonia is a mountainous country. The river Eurotas divides the mountain
ranges, and in its valley was situated Sparta, the chief city of Lakonia.
Sparta, also called Lacedaemon - the principal city of the Peloponnesos,
Sparta was the arch-enemy of Athens and was the main beneficiary from the
Athenian defeat in 404 B.C. which ended the Peloponnesian War. Spartan
supremacy in Greece ended in 371 B.C. with their defeat by the Thebans at
Leuktra.

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Cassander (Greek:

Κάσσανδρος , Kassandros Antipatros; ca. 350 - 297 BC), King of

Macedonia (305 - 297 BC), was a son of

Antipater,

and founder of the

Antipatrid dynasty.

 Early

history

Cassander is first recorded as arriving at

Alexander the Great’s court in

Babylon in

323 BC, where he had been sent by his father, Antipater, likely to help uphold

Antipater’s regency in Macedon, although a later contemporary suggestion hostile

to the Antipatrids was that Cassander had journeyed to poison the King.

Whatever the truth of this suggestion, Cassander certainly proved to be

singularly noted amongst the

diadochi in

his hostility to Alexander‘s memory.

Alexander IV,

Roxanne, and Alexander’s supposed illegitimate son

Heracles would all be executed on his orders, and a guarantee to

Olympias to

spare her life was not respected.

So too, Cassander would restore

Thebes, which had been destroyed under Alexander. This gesture was perceived

at the time to be a snub to the deceased King.

It was even said that he could not pass a statue of Alexander without feeling

faint. Cassander has been perceived to be ambitious and unscrupulous, and even

members of his own family were estranged from him.[4]

 Later

history

     Kingdom of Cassander Other

diadochi

     Kingdom of

Seleucus

     Kingdom of

Lysimachus

     Kingdom of

Ptolemy

     Epirus

Other

     Carthage

     Rome

     Greek

colonies

As Antipater grew close to death in 319 BC, he transferred the regency of

Macedon not to Cassander, but to

Polyperchon, possibly so as not to alarm the other diadochi through an

apparent move towards dynastic ambition, but perhaps also because of Cassander’s

own ambitions.

Cassander rejected his father’s decision, and immediately went to court

Antigonus,

Ptolemy and

Lysimachus

as allies. Waging war on Polyperchon, Cassander would destroy his fleet, put

Athens under the control of

Demetrius of Phaleron, and declare himself Regent in 317 BC. After Olympias’

successful move against

Philip III later in the year, Cassander would besiege her in

Pydna. When the

city fell two years later, Olympias was killed, and Cassander would have

Alexander IV and Roxanne confined at

Amphipolis.

Cassander associated himself with the

Argead dynasty by marrying Alexander’s half-sister,

Thessalonica, and had Alexander IV and Roxanne executed in either 310 BC or

the following year. Certainly, in 309, Polyperchon would begin forwarding the

claims of

Heracles as the true heir to the Macedonian inheritance, at which point

Cassander bribed him to have the boy killed.

After this, Cassander’s position in Greece and Macedonia was reasonably secure,

and he would proclaim himself King in 305 BC.

After the

Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, in which

Antigonus was killed, he was undisputed in his control of Macedonia.

However, he had little time to savour the fact, dying of

dropsy in 297 BC.

Cassander’s dynasty did not live much beyond his death, with his son

Philip dying of natural causes, and his other sons

Alexander and

Antipater becoming involved in a destructive dynastic struggle along with

their mother. When Alexander was ousted as joint king by his brother,

Demetrius I took up Alexander's appeal for aid and ousted Antipater, killed

Alexander, and established the

Antigonid dynasty. The remaining Antipatrids such as

Antipater Etesias would prove unable to re-establish the Antipatrids on the

throne.

Of more lasting significance was Cassander’s transformation of

Therma into

Thessalonica, naming the city after his wife. Cassander also founded

Cassandreia upon the ruins of

Potidaea.

 Cassander

as a fictional character

Mary Renault refers to Cassander in the Alexander Trilogy by his Greek

name, Kassandros, and depicts him highly negatively. In

Funeral Games, he is the villain of the piece.

In the

Oliver Stone film

Alexander, he is portrayed by

Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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