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ANTIGONUS CYCLOPS (or MONOPTHALMOS; so called from his having lost an See also:eye) (382–301 B.C.) , Macedonian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, son of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, was one of the generals of See also:Alexander the See also:Great. He was made See also:governor of Greater See also:Phrygia in 333, and in the See also:division of the provinces after Alexander's See also:death (323) See also:Pamphylia and See also:Lycia were added to his command. He incurred the enmity of See also:Perdiccas, the See also:regent, by refusing to assist See also:Eumenes (q.v.) to obtain See also:possession of the provinces allotted to him. In danger of his See also:life he escaped with his son See also:Demetrius into See also:Greece, where he obtained the favour of See also:Antipater, regent of See also:Macedonia (321); and when, soon after, on the death of Perdiccas, a new division took See also:place, he was entrusted with the command of the See also:war against Eumenes, who had joined Perdiccas against the See also:coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, and the other generals. Eumenes was completely defeated, and obliged to retire to See also:Nora in See also:Cappadocia, and a new See also:army that was marching to his See also:relief was routed by Antigonus. See also:Polyperchon succeeding Antipater (d..319) in the regency, to the exclusion of See also:Cassander, his son, Antigonus resolved to set himself up as See also:lord of all See also:Asia, and in See also:conjunction with Cassander and See also:Ptolemy of See also:Egypt, refused to recognize Polyperchon. He entered into negotiations with Eumenes; but
Eumenes remained faithful to the royal See also:house. Effecting his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from Nora, he raised an army, and formed a coalition with the satraps of the eastern provinces. He was at last delivered up to Antigonus through treachery in See also:Persia and put to death (316). Antigonus again claimed authority over the whole of Asia, seized the treasures at See also:Susa, and entered Babylonia, of which Seleucus was governor. Seleucus fled to Ptolemy, and entered into a See also:league with him (315), together with See also:Lysimachus and Cassander. After the war had been carried on with varying success from 315 to 311, See also:peace was concluded, by which the See also:government of Asia See also:Minor and See also:Syria was provisionally secured to Antigonus. This agreement was soon violated on the pretext that garrisons had been placed in some of the See also:free See also:Greek cities by Antigonus, and Ptolemy and Cassander renewed hostilities against him. Demetrius Poliorcetes, the son of Antigonus, wrested See also:part of Greece from Cassander. At first Ptolemy had made a successful descent upon Asia Minor and on several of the islands of the See also:Archipelago; but he was at length totally defeated by Demetrius in a See also:naval engagement off See also:Salamis, in See also:Cyprus (306). On this victory Antigonus assumed the See also:title of king, and bestowed the same upon his son, a See also:declaration that he claimed to be the See also:heir of Alexander. Antigonus now prepared a large army, and a formidable See also:fleet, the command of which he gave to Demetrius, and hastened to attack Ptolemy in his own dominions. His invasion of Egypt, however, proved a failure; he was unable to penetrate the defences of Ptolemy, and was obliged to retire. Demetrius now attempted the reduction of See also:Rhodes, which had refused to assist Antigonus against Egypt; but, See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with obstinate resistance, he was obliged to make a treaty upon the best terms that he could (3o4). In 302, although Demetrius was again winning success after success in Greece, Antigonus was obliged to recall him to meet the confederacy that had been formed between Cassander, Seleucus and Lysimachus. A decisive See also:battle was fought at Ipsus, in which Antigonus See also:fell, in the eighty-first See also:year of his See also:age.
Diodorus Siculus xviii., xx. 46-86; See also:Plutarch, Demetrius, Eumenes; See also:Nepos, Eumenes; See also:Justin xv. 1-4. See MACEDONIAN See also:EMPIRE; and Kohler, " Das Reich See also:des Antigonos," in the Sitzungsberichte d. Berl. Akad., 1898, p. 835 f.
End of Article: ANTIGONUS CYCLOPS (or MONOPTHALMOS; so called from his having lost an eye) (382–301 B.C.)
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