Antigonus II Gonatas

Relatives:

• Father: Demetrius Poliorcetes
• Mother: Phila I (daughter of Antipater)
• Wife: Phila II (daughter of his sister Stratonice I and Seleucus I Nicator)
• Son: Demetrius II

Main deeds:

• 288: Joint attack on Macedonia by Lysimachus and Pyrrhus of Epirus; king Demetrius I Poliorcetes abandons Europe and attacks Lysimachus' Asian possessions; he marches to the east, fails, and surrenders to Seleucus
• Antigonus left in Europe
• 283: Death of Demetrius, still in Asia
• 281: Seleucus invades Lysimachus' realm; defeats him at Corupedium; Seleucus murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos, who becomes king of Macedonia.
• 279: Ptolemy Keraunos killed by the Galatians, who proceed to Greece and capture Delphi (text)
• 277: Antigonus defeats the Galatians and becomes king of Macedonia
• 276: Marriage with Phila II (daughter of his sister Stratonice I and Seleucus I Nicator)
• 272: Invasion of Macedonia by Pyrrhus, who continues to Greece and is killed in a street fight in Argos
• Antigonus establishes strong garrisons in Corinth, Chalkis, and Athens
• 267: Chremonidian War: Athens and king Areus of Sparta try to liberate Greece; they are supported by Ptolemy II Philadelphus
• 263: Antigonus captures Athens
• 261: End of the Chremonidian war
• 260: Outbreak of the Second Syrian War between Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Antiochus II Theos
• 255: Antigonus defeats Ptolemy near Kos
• 245: During the Laodicean War (or Third Syrian War), the Macedonians attack Ptolemaic possessions in the Aegean Sea (battle of Andros), and gain the Cyclades
• 243: Aratus, leader of the Achaean League, supported by Ptolemy III Euergetes, seizes Corinth
• Antigonus makes his son Demetrius co-ruler
• 239: Death