Pleistarchus (son of Antipater)
Pleistarchus (
Macedonia. As well as an Antipatrid general, he served as an independent dynast of Cilicia and then Caria
in later life.
He is first mentioned in the year 313 BC, when he was left by his brother in the command of
Ptolemy, the general of Antigonus, when Cassander himself was recalled to the defence of Macedonia.[1]
Athenian Agora to commemorate this victory around 300 BC.[3]
Again, in 302 BC, when the general coalition was formed against Antigonus, Pleistarchus was sent forward by his brother, with an army 12,000 foot and 500 horse, to join
Odessus directly to Heraclea, but lost by far the greater part on the passage, some having been captured by the enemy's ships, while others perished in a storm, in which Pleistarchus himself narrowly escaped shipwreck.[4] Notwithstanding this misfortune, he seems to have rendered efficient service to the confederates, for which he was rewarded after the battle of Ipsus (301 BC) by obtaining the province of Cilicia, as an independent government. This, however, he did not long retain, being expelled from it in the following year by Demetrius, almost without opposition.[5]
Afterwards he is recorded in
Mylasa shows that Pleistarchus' power was respected at least this far south.[10]
It is perhaps to him that the medical writer, Diocles of Carystus, addressed his work, which is cited more than once by Athenaeus, as τα προς Πλεισταρχον Υγιεινα.[11]
References
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Pleistarchus (2)", Boston, (1867)
Notes
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xix. 77
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, i. 15
- ISSN 0018-098X.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xx. 112
- ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Demetrius", 31
- ^ Inscription Sinuri 10
- ^ Descat, Raymond (1998). "La carrière d'Eupolemos, stratège macédonien en Asie Mineure". Revue des Études Anciennes. 100 (1–2): 167–186.
- ^ Gregory, Andrew Pearce (1995). "A Macedonian Δυνάστηϛ: Evidence for the Life and Career of Pleistarchos Antipatrou". Historia. 44 (1): 11–28.
- ^ Brun, Patrice (1994). "Les fortifications d'Hyllarima, Philon de Byzance et Pleistarchos". Revue des Études Anciennes. 96 (1–2): 193–204.
- ^ Hegyi, Dolores (1998). "The Cult of Sinuri in Caria". Acta Antiquia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 38: 157–163.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, vii. 320d
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