Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography

by Gabbert,Janice J.

• ISBN13: 9780415018999
• ISBN10: 0415018994
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus II Gonatas assumed the title King of Macedonia in 283 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a well-educated man with a keen interest in philosophy. He gathered about him poets, philosophers and historians; his long reign, despite vicissitudes, re-established Macedonia as a nation. Janice J. Gabbert portrays the eventful life of this enigmatic king in a lively and engaging manner. Her aim is to trace the political career of a man about whose life almost no official records survive. Taking into account the most recent epigraphical evidence, the author brings to life a fascinating political figure.This is the first study entirely devoted to Antigonus for over eighty years.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi	(1)
Antigonid kings of Macedonia	vii	(1)
Select chronology	viii
1 THE EARLY YEARS	1	(7)
2 THE APPRENTICE KING	8	(13)
3 ANARCHY AND RECOVERY	21	(8)
4 THE STRUGGLE WITH PYRRHUS	29	(4)
5 THE GREEK HEGEMONY	33	(12)
6 THE CHREMONIDEAN WAR	45	(9)
7 AN OLD MAN'S TROUBLES	54	(5)
8 THE NATURE OF THE MONARCHY	59	(9)
9 THE MAN AND THE KING	68	(5)
Notes	73	(7)
Bibliography	80	(7)
Index	87