Cassander

Family: Macedon · Role: king · First appears: Pyrrhus

Life events

Glaucias refused to surrender Pyrrhus and restored him as king of Epirus.(Pyrrhus · 📍 Epirus)
- With: Glaucias Pyrrhus
- “At present, therefore, he gave Pyrrhus into the charge of his wife, commanding he should be brought up with his own children; and a little after, the enemies sending to demand him, and Cassander himself offering two hundred talents, he would not deliver him up; but when he was twelve years old, bringing him with an army into Epirus, made him king.”
Cassander killed Demades after first killing his son, Demeas, and accusing him of treachery.(Phocion · 📍 Macedonia)
- With: Demades Demeas
- “So when Cassander saw him come, he seized him; and first brought out the son and killed him so close before his face, that the blood ran all over his clothes and person, and then, after bitterly taunting and upbraiding him with his ingratitude and treachery, dispatched him himself.”

rivals with Polysperchon “affairs were embroiled by the differences of Cassander and Polysperchon”

with Alexander (interaction) “he took him by the hair with both hands, and dashed his head against the wall”

servant: Nicanor “Cassander at once set up for himself and immediately dispatched Nicanor to Menyllus, to succeed him in the command of the garrison”
with Demades (interaction) “So when Cassander saw him come, he seized him; and first brought out the son and killed him so close before his face”

enemies with Demades “Cassander was so enraged, that he first slew his son in his bosom, and then gave orders to execute him”

enemies with Demetrius Poliorcetes “The Athenians entreated his help against Cassander, who was besieging the city”
child: Philip “Cassander, king of Macedon, dying, and his eldest son, Philip, who succeeded him”

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