Antigonus

Antigonus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος), a Greek name meaning "comparable to his father" or "worthy of his father", may refer to:

• Three Macedonian kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great in Asia:
  • Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382–301 BC)
  • Antigonus II Gonatas (319–239 BC)
  • Antigonus III Doson (263–221 BC)
• Antigonus, a Greek writer on the history of Italy. It has been supposed that the Antigonus mentioned by Plutarch is the same as this historian, but the saying there noted belongs to a king Antigonus, and not to the historian.
• Antigonus of Alexandria, a grammarian who is referred to by Erotian in his Prooemium and his Prenira. He is perhaps the same person as the Antigonus of whom the Scholiast on Nicander speaks, and identical with Antigonus, the commentator of Hippocrates.
• Antigonus of Cumae, in Asia Minor, a Greek writer on agriculture, who is referred to by Pliny, Varro, and Columella, but whose age is unknown.
• Antigonus, son of Echecrates, the brother of Antigonus Doson, revealed to Philip V of Macedon, a few months before his death in 179 BC, the false accusations of his son Perseus of Macedon against his other son Demetrius, in consequence of which Philip put the latter to death. Indignant at the conduct of Perseus, Philip appointed Antigonus his successor; but on his death Perseus obtained possession of the throne, and had Antigonus to be killed.
• Antigonus, a writer on painting, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, is perhaps the same as the sculptor with this name, whom we know to have written on statuary.
• Antigonus, a general of Perseus in the war with the Romans, was sent to Aenia to guard the coast.
• Antigonus, a Greek sculptor, and an eminent writer upon his art, was one of the artists who represented the battles of Attalus and Eumenes against the Gauls. He lived, therefore, about 239 BC, when Attalus I, king of Pergamus, conquered the Gauls. A little further on, Pliny says, "Antigonus et perixyomenon, tyrannicidasque supra dictos," where one of the best manuscripts. has "Antignotus et luctatores, perixyomenon," &c.
• Antigonus, a Greek army surgeon, mentioned by Galen, who must therefore have lived in or before the second century AD. Marcellus Empiricus quotes a physician of the same name, who may very possibly be the same person; and Lucian mentions an impudent quack named Antigonus, who among other things, said that one of his patients had been restored to life after having been buried for twenty days.
• Antigonos (son of Callas) Macedonian hetairos and athlete
• Antigonus of Carystus, 3rd century BC Greek writer on various subjects
• Antigonus of Sokho, Jewish scholar of the third century BC.
• Antigonus II Mattathias (died 37 BC), the last ruler of the Hasmonean kingdom of Judea
• Antigonus (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterflies

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