Antigonus was one of the generals of Alexander the Great. He was born about 382 BC and died in 239 BC. In the division of the empire, after the death of Alexander, Antigonus obtained Greater Phrygia, Lycia, and Pamphylia as his dominion. Being a man of great ambition and ability lie soon managed to consolidate and extend his power, being assisted by his warlike son, Demetrius Poliorcetes. Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Lysimachus, who had also been generals of Alexander, alarmed by his ambition, united themselves against him; and a long series of contests ensued in Syria, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, and Greece, ending in 301 B.C. with the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, in which Antigonus was defeated and slain, his dominions being divided among the conquerors. Antigonus Gon'atas, son of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and grandson of the above, succeeded his father in the Kingdom of Macedon and all his other European dominions, but did not obtain actual possession of them for some years. Research Antigonus
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