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See also:CASSANDER (c. 350—297 B.C.) , 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 of See also:Macedonia, eldest son of See also:Antipater, first appears at the See also:court of See also:Alexander at See also:Babylon,where he defended his See also:father against the accusations of his enemies. Having been passed over by his father in favour of See also:Polyperchon as his successor in the regency of Macedonia, Cassander allied himself with See also:Ptolemy See also:Soter and Antigonus, and declared See also:war against the See also:regent. Most of the See also:Greek states went over to him, and See also:Athens also surrendered. He further effected an See also:alliance with See also:Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King 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 Arrhidaeus of Macedon. Both she and her See also:husband, however, together with Cassander's See also:brother, See also:Nicanor, were soon after slain by See also:Olympias. Cassander at once marched against Olympias, and, having forced her to surrender in Pydna, put her to See also:death (316). In 310 or 309 he also murdered See also:Roxana and Alexander, the wife and son of Alexander the See also:Great, whose natural son Heracles he bribed Polyperchon to See also:poison. He had already connected himself with the royal See also:family by See also:marriage with Thessalonica, Alexander the Great's See also:half-See also:sister, and, having formed an alliance with Seleucus, Ptolemy and See also:Lysimachus, against Antigonus, he became, on the defeat and death of Antigonus in 301, undisputed See also:sovereign of Macedonia. He died of See also:dropsy in 299. Cassander was a See also:man of See also:literary See also:taste, but violent and ambitious. He restored See also:Thebes after its destruction by Alexander the Great, transformed Therma into Thessalonica, and built the new See also:city of Cassandreia upon the ruins of Potidaea. -
See Diod. Sic. xviii., xix., xx.; See also:Plutarch, See also:Demetrius, 18. 31, See also:Phocion, 31; also MACEDONIAN See also:EMPIRE.
End of Article: CASSANDER (c. 350—297 B.C.)
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