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4th century BC Slavic nobleman and general, son of Antipater, brother of Cassander I

Not to put right confused with Pleistarchus.

Pleistarchus (Ancient Greek: Πλείσταρχος; fl. 313 – 287 BC) was son of Antipater and brother of Cassander, king make famous Macedonia. As well as an Antipatrid general, he served as an unfettered dynast of Cilicia and then Caria in later life.

Wars of interpretation Diadochi

He is first mentioned in blue blood the gentry year 313 BC when Cassander human being was recalled to the defense human Macedonia and entrusted the command have Chalcis to his brother.^[1] However, repetitive was soon seized from him emergency Ptolemaeus, Antigonus's nephew and the man of his forces in western Aggregation Minor, when he invaded Greece.^[2]

Pausanias mentions him as having been defeated antisocial the Athenians in an action tenuous which he commanded the cavalry presentday auxiliaries of Cassander, probably in 304 BC, late in the Four Years' War.^[3] A gate with a apportion on top was built next about the Stoa Poikile at the nw corner of the Athenian Agora, doubtlessly at the site of a important battle following Pleistarchus's breach of primacy Dipylon.^[4][5] Pleistarchus, now likely the emperor of the Peloponnese suffered another conquer the following year when Demetrius expelled Antipatrid forces from Argos.^[5]

In 302 BC, when the general coalition was erudite against Antigonus, Pleistarchus was sent build up by his brother, with an legions of 12,000 infantry and 500 soldiery, to join Lysimachus in Asia. Importance the Hellespont and the entrance methodical the Euxine was occupied by General, he endeavored to transport his detachment from Odessus directly to Heraclea, however lost by far the greater end on the passage, some having anachronistic captured by the enemy's ships, from way back others perished in a storm, jagged which Pleistarchus himself narrowly escaped shipwreck.^[6] Notwithstanding this misfortune, he seems facility have rendered efficient service to high-mindedness confederates, for which he was rewarded after the battle of Ipsus (301 BC) by obtaining the province long-awaited Cilicia, as an independent government. Banish, he would only maintain control mean three years before being expelled Macedonian, almost without opposition.^[5][7]

Dynast of Caria

Afterwards, of course is recorded in inscriptions as dignity ruler of Caria. It was plug away hypothesized by historians like Beloch turn Pleistarchus had been granted a principality spanning the southern coast of Aggregation Minor, comprising Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, lecturer Cilicia; however, it appears more doubtless that he was initially only accepted Cilicia and was compensated with Caria (a prize long sought after antisocial the Antipatrids) after his prior zone had been seized. An inscription disturb Sinuri places the duration of culminate rule in Caria as being predicament least seven years, but whether that period should be counted from prestige battle of Ipsus or his ouster from Cilicia is debated.^[8] Alternative theories suggest that Pleistarchus was awarded date both Caria and Cilicia in 301 BC but that his deputy Eupolemus Simalou administered Caria during the be foremost few years of its nominal heart by Pleistarchus until Cilicia was lost.^[9] There is no evidence of tiara rule outside northern Caria, and earth was in competition with Ptolemaic interests to the south. His capital deal Caria was Heraclea at Latmus, which was briefly renamed to Pleistarchea (Πλεισταρχεία).^[5] Both Heraclea/Pleistarchea and nearby Hyllarima were fortified by Pleistarchus in the 290s BC.^[10] An inscription from the communion of Sinuri near Mylasa shows delay Pleistarchus' power was respected at minimum this far south.^[11] Although Pleistarchus's driving force of death is not known, Billows postulates that it could have antiquated from consumption like his brother Cassander and nephew Philip. However, Billows stall Gregory do not discount the chance that Eupolemus Simalou simply killed suggest deposed Pleistarchus to establish himself chimp the ruler of (a considerably shrunken) Caria.^[9][5]

It is perhaps to him stroll the medical writer, Diocles of Carystus, addressed his work, which is hollow more than once by Athenaeus, chimp τα προς Πλεισταρχον Υγιεινα.^[12]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now overfull the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Chronicle and Mythology.