Antigone

Family: Epirus · Role: queen · First appears: Pyrrhus

Life events

Pyrrhus married Antigone, raised an army, and returned to Epirus.(Pyrrhus · 📍 Epirus)
- With: Pyrrhus
- “After this match, advancing in honor, and Antigone being a very good wife to him, having procured a sum of money, and raised an army, he so ordered matters as to be sent into his kingdom of Epirus, and arrived there to the great satisfaction of many, from their hate to Neoptolemus, who was governing in a violent and arbitrary way.”
Pyrrhus killed Neoptolemus after learning of his poisoning plot.(Pyrrhus)
- With: Pyrrhus Neoptolemus Phaenarete
- “On understanding which Pyrrhus for the present said little, but on a sacrifice day, making an invitation for Neoptolemus, killed him;”

parent: Berenice “Antigone for his wife, one of the daughters of Berenice by Philip”
parent: Philip “one of the daughters of Berenice by Philip”
married with Pyrrhus “Antigone for his wife”
child: Ptolemy “he named his son by Antigone, Ptolemy”

with Philotas (interaction) “there was one Antigone of Pydna, a very handsome woman, who fell to Philotas's share”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.