Antigone of Macedon

Antigone (Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) was a Macedonian noblewoman who lived in the 4th century BC.

She was born to Cassander by a mother whose name is unknown.^[1] Antigone was the niece of the Regent Antipater.^[2] Her father and paternal uncle were the sons of Iolaus and through her father Antigone was a distant collateral relative to the Argead dynasty.^[3]

Antigone was originally from either Paliura or Eordaea. Little is known of her life. Antigone married a Macedonian nobleman of obscure origin called Magas who was from Eordaea.^[4] Antigone and Magas lived in Eordaea and had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.^[5]

• Berenice I article at Livius.org Archived 2016-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I
• Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: Antipatrids
• W. Heckel, Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

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