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ANTIPATER (398?-319 B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTIPATER (398?-319 B.C.)  , Macedonian See also:general, and See also:regent of See also:Macedonia during See also:Alexander's Eastern expedition (334-323) . He had previously (346) been sent as See also:ambassador by See also:Philip to See also:Athens and negotiated See also:peace after the See also:battle of See also:Chaeroneia (338) . About 332 he set out against the rebellious tribes of See also:Thrace; but before this insurrection was quelled, the Spartan See also:king See also:Agis had risen against Macedonia . Having settled affairs in Thrace as well as he could, See also:Antipater hastened to the See also:south, and in a battle near See also:Megalopolis (331) gained a See also:complete victory over the insurgents (Diodorus xvii . 62) . His regency was greatly troubled by the ambition of See also:Olympias, See also:mother of Alexander, and he was nominally superseded by Craterus . But, on the See also:death of Alexander in 323, he was, by the first See also:partition of the See also:empire, See also:left in command of Macedonia, and in the Lamian See also:War, at the battle of Crannon (322), crushed the Greeks who had attempted to re-assert their See also:independence . Later in the same See also:year he and Craterus were engaged in a war against the Aetolians, when the See also:news arrived from See also:Asia which induced Antipater to conclude peace with them; for Antigonus reported that See also:Perdiccas contemplated making himself See also:sole See also:master of the empire . Antipater and Craterus accordingly prepared for war against Perdiccas, and allied themselves with See also:Ptolemy, the See also:governor of See also:Egypt . Antipater crossed over into Asia in 321; and while still in See also:Syria, he received See also:information that Perdiccas had been murdered by his own soldiers . Craterusfell in battle against See also:Eumenes (Diodorus xviii . 25-39) .

Antipater, now sole regent, made several new regulations, and having quelled a See also:

mutiny of his troops and commissioned Antigonus to continue the war against Eumenes and the other partisans of Perdiccas, returned to Macedonia, where he arrived in 320 (See also:Justin xiii . 6) . Soon after he was seized by an illness which terminated his active career, 319 . Passing over his son See also:Cassander, he appointed the aged See also:Polyperchon regent, a measure which gave rise to much confusion and See also:ill-feelin4 (Diodorus xvii., xviii) .

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