Antigonus

Antigonus, (1) surnamed "The Cyclops," from having but one eye, a Macedonian general under Alexander. At the death of his master he took Pamphylia, Lycia, and Phrygia Major as his share of the empire. In conjunction with his son Demetrius Poliorcetes he entered the league against Perdiccas, attacked Eumenes and Ptolemy, conquered all Asia Minor and Syria, and called himself King of Asia. He died in 301 B.C., at the age of eighty-four, from a wound received at Ipsus, where he was defeated by the united forces of Seleucus, Lysimachus, Cassander, and Ptolemy. (2) Gonatas (from Gonni, his birthplace), son of Demetrius Poliorcetes and grandson of preceding, who came to the throne of Macedon in 278 B.C. He refused to join Pyrrhus against Carthage, and was driven from his dominions by that prince. Eventually he was restored, and defeated his conqueror near Argos. He died in 242 B.C., in the seventy-seventh year of his age. (3) King of the Jews, son of Cristobulus II. and last of the Asmonean dynasty. When Pompey took Jerusalem he carried this prince to Rome. The Romans refused to give him his father's crown, so he called in the aid of the Parthians, and in 40 B.C. began to reign. Mark Antony was then sent to re-establish Herod, and Jerusalem yielded 37 B.C. Antigonus was executed at Antioch.