Demetrius I Poliorcetes (/dɪˈmiːtriəs pɒliɔːrˈsiːtiːz/; Greek: Δημήτριος Πολιορκητής, Dēmḗtrios Poliorkētḗs, lit. 'the Besieger of Cities'; 337 – 283...
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in China. 291 BC Siege of Thebes Demetrios I Poliorketes takes Thebes. 287 BC Siege of Athens Demetrios I Poliorketes unsuccessfully besieges Athens. 284...
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in Anatolia. Mithridates is said to have been of the same age as Demetrios Poliorketes, which means he was born in the mid-330s BC. In 302 or 301 BC, shortly...
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died. Indeed, after having taken Athens, the king of Macedonia Demetrios Poliorketes invaded the Peloponnese in order to fortify his hold of Greece before...
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their behalf with Demetrios Poliorketes Demarchos, the son of Epidokos, a Syracusan general and opponent of the tyrant Dionysius I Satrap of Hellespontine...
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nearby communities and naval forces, such as Antigonos I Monopthalmos and Demetrios Poliorketes, and combined land and sea. Its fortification wall and...
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original outline, in c. 307/4 BC, when Athens was under the control of Demetrios Poliorketes. In 267–262 BC, Athens participated in the unsuccessful Chremonidean...
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rulers (Philip II, Alexander the Great, Cassandros, Demetrios Poliorketes, Lysimachos, Seleucus I, etc.). In 1999 another fundamental discovery was made...
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known of Areus' co-king Archidamus IV after his defeat against Demetrios Poliorketes in 294, and Archidamus' son Eudamidas II is the most obscure of...
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disappeared from the records since the defeat of Archidamus IV against Demetrios Poliorketes in 294. His father is indeed the most obscure of all the Spartan...
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Cypriot kings sided with Ptolemy I and defended the island against Antigonos. Ptolemy lost Cyprus to Demetrios Poliorketes between 306 and 295 BC, but after...
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The Bronze God of Rhodes (category Cultural depictions of Ptolemy I Soter)
Rhodes's antagonists Demetrios Poliorketes and Antigonus, Egyptian historian Manethos, Egyptian king Ptolemaios, and Demetrios of Phalerum, reputed founder...
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