Antigone of Macedon

Macedonian noblewoman

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]

## References

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1. ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 3
2. ^ "Berenice I article at Livius.org". Archived from the original on 2016-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
3. ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
4. ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 2
5. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p. 71

## Sources

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* 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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