Demetrius II

Relatives:

• Father: Antigonus II Gonatas
• Mother: Phila (daughter of Stratonice I and Seleucus I Nicator)
• First wife: Stratonice II (daughter of Antiochus I Soter and Stratonice I)
  • Daughter: Apame III (married to Prusias I of Bithynia)
• Second wife: Phthia
  • Son: Philip V

Main deeds:

• 239: After a coregency, Demetrius II becomes sole ruler when his father dies
• An anti-Macedonian alliance is created by the Aetolian League and the Achaean League, which is led by Aratus; beginning of the Demetrian War
• Demetrius marries Phthia, widow of Alexander of Epirus (his first wife, Stratonice II, returns to Syria); Demetrius occupies southern Epirus, which he uses against Aetolia, which also has to give up Boeotia
• 238: Birth of Philip V
• Demetrius prevents surprise attacks by Aratus on Argos and Athens
• 233: The Aetolians capture Ambracia in southern Epirus
• 229: Unexpected death; his queen Phthia marries to Antigonus III Doson, who acts as regent for Demetrius' son Philip