Antig'onus

Antig'onus, surnamed the 'One-eyed' (Cyclops), one of the generals of Alexander the Great, received in the division of the empire, after the death of the latter, the provinces of Phrygia Major, Lycia, and Pamphylia. After the death of the regent Antipater in 319, he aspired to the sovereignty of Asia, and waged incessant wars against the other generals, making himself master of all Asia Minor and Syria. In 306 he assumed the title of king, but was defeated by Lysimachus, Cassander, and Seleucus in the decisive battle of Ipsus, in Phrygia, in which he was slain, 301 B.C. He was the father of Demetrius Poliorcetes.—ANTIGONUS GON'ATAS, son of Demetrius Poliorcetes, king of Macedonia, and grandson of the great Antigonus. He did not mount his throne until 276, about seven years after his father's death. Driven out of his kingdom in 273 by Pyrrhus of Epirus, he recovered it in the following year, and kept it until his death in 239.