Dr. Graham Wrightson

And you get the Seleucids promoting connection to divine Alexander, and he's on their coins as this Dionysus Heracles figure in their iconography. And you get the Antigonids doing the same thing, that they claim to be the rulers of Macedon through this connection to divine Alexander, even though they're not directly connected.

royal figureheads they've done away with them is that when they go from trying to align themselves with royalty to actually deciding i might as well declare myself a king in my own right yeah so cassandra marries thessaloniki he's the one with his successful marriage eventually as the the half sister of alexander so she's another daughter of philip ii and obviously he founds the city modern city of thessalonica is named after thessaloniki

royal figureheads they've done away with them is that when they go from trying to align themselves with royalty to actually deciding i might as well declare myself a king in my own right yeah so cassandra marries thessaloniki he's the one with his successful marriage eventually as the the half sister of alexander so she's another daughter of philip ii and obviously he founds the city modern city of thessalonica is named after thessaloniki

royal figureheads they've done away with them is that when they go from trying to align themselves with royalty to actually deciding i might as well declare myself a king in my own right yeah so cassandra marries thessaloniki he's the one with his successful marriage eventually as the the half sister of alexander so she's another daughter of philip ii and obviously he founds the city modern city of thessalonica is named after thessaloniki

The one survival of the Cassandrian stuff, but his death and all his brothers are killed by Olympias and then he is eventually killed too. And so his dynasty with Thessaloniki as connection to Alexander is ended and Demetrius comes back and takes over kingdom of Thessaloniki.

The one survival of the Cassandrian stuff, but his death and all his brothers are killed by Olympias and then he is eventually killed too. And so his dynasty with Thessaloniki as connection to Alexander is ended and Demetrius comes back and takes over kingdom of Thessaloniki.

The one survival of the Cassandrian stuff, but his death and all his brothers are killed by Olympias and then he is eventually killed too. And so his dynasty with Thessaloniki as connection to Alexander is ended and Demetrius comes back and takes over kingdom of Thessaloniki.

of Macedon, squabbling a little bit with Pyrrhus, but eventually it ends up with Demetrius' successors, the Antigonids, becoming kings of Macedon, because that last connection has disappeared. But it's not until we get to these squabbles of what I call the four main surviving successor kings, where you get five initially. So you have Cassander in Macedon and Greece,

of Macedon, squabbling a little bit with Pyrrhus, but eventually it ends up with Demetrius' successors, the Antigonids, becoming kings of Macedon, because that last connection has disappeared. But it's not until we get to these squabbles of what I call the four main surviving successor kings, where you get five initially. So you have Cassander in Macedon and Greece,

of Macedon, squabbling a little bit with Pyrrhus, but eventually it ends up with Demetrius' successors, the Antigonids, becoming kings of Macedon, because that last connection has disappeared. But it's not until we get to these squabbles of what I call the four main surviving successor kings, where you get five initially. So you have Cassander in Macedon and Greece,

Antigonus and Demetrius who rule in what is now Turkey. You have Lysimachus ruling in Thrace. Then you have Seleucus in Babylon and Ptolemy in Egypt are your five main kings. And they rule throughout the rest of the next 20 years, basically in their little kingdoms. And they all fight with each other over who's the most powerful.

Antigonus and Demetrius who rule in what is now Turkey. You have Lysimachus ruling in Thrace. Then you have Seleucus in Babylon and Ptolemy in Egypt are your five main kings. And they rule throughout the rest of the next 20 years, basically in their little kingdoms. And they all fight with each other over who's the most powerful.

Antigonus and Demetrius who rule in what is now Turkey. You have Lysimachus ruling in Thrace. Then you have Seleucus in Babylon and Ptolemy in Egypt are your five main kings. And they rule throughout the rest of the next 20 years, basically in their little kingdoms. And they all fight with each other over who's the most powerful.

And after Antigonus defeats Eumenes and takes over his army, he becomes the most powerful in Asia Minor. And he starts trying to dictate to the other kings. And so we get this alliance of the other kings against Antigonus that ends with the Battle of Ipsus in 301.

And after Antigonus defeats Eumenes and takes over his army, he becomes the most powerful in Asia Minor. And he starts trying to dictate to the other kings. And so we get this alliance of the other kings against Antigonus that ends with the Battle of Ipsus in 301.

And after Antigonus defeats Eumenes and takes over his army, he becomes the most powerful in Asia Minor. And he starts trying to dictate to the other kings. And so we get this alliance of the other kings against Antigonus that ends with the Battle of Ipsus in 301.

where Antigonus is killed and Demetrius doesn't get back in time to save his father and flees and becomes the definitive pirate King for about a decade where he's a King in name, but has no country except for his ships.

where Antigonus is killed and Demetrius doesn't get back in time to save his father and flees and becomes the definitive pirate King for about a decade where he's a King in name, but has no country except for his ships.

where Antigonus is killed and Demetrius doesn't get back in time to save his father and flees and becomes the definitive pirate King for about a decade where he's a King in name, but has no country except for his ships.

And he sails around, but Antigonus is the first one to actually use the title King for the first time in the three tens after the death of all these different family members is really when the last son is dead. And Antigonus,