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

She was born to Cassander by unnamed mother.[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

  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

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