Demetrius (son of Antigonus)

Also known as: Demetrius · Family: Macedonian · Role: son of Antigonus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 6

In Book 1, Chapter 6, Antigonus entrusted matters to his son, described as “a boy in years a man in intellect.” Demetrius fought Ptolemy and defeated Menelaus in a naval engagement at Cyprus; later, he and Antigonus blockaded Ptolemy in Egypt, but Ptolemy preserved his kingdom at Pelusium. In Chapter 10, Demetrius killed Alexander and took the Macedonian kingdom. He later fought Lysimachus at Amphipolis and Seleucus in Asia Minor, and in Chapter 11 Pyrrhus drove him out of Macedonia.

Afterward, Demetrius attacked Seleucus with an army and was captured. In Book 2, Chapter 7, he razed the old city of Sicyon and built the present city on the former citadel. In Book 9, Chapter 7, Alexander enlisted Demetrius’s help to depose Antipater and punish him for matricide. Later, statues of Demetrius and Antigonus were sent to Delphi; Book 1, Chapter 16 also says that Demetrius’s son Antigonus the son of Demetrius recovered the kingdom.