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2020
The first historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as 'The Besieger of Cities', Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the disintegration of Alexander the Great's Empire after 323 BC, and the most fascinating and high profile of the Diadochoi, or Successors to Alexander the Great. His campaigns, initiatives, and personal life bestride the opening forty years of the so-called 'Hellenistic' age and are pivotal in its formation as he became the first of the Hellenistic Kings. As his name suggests, Demetrius was prodigious in his military adventures, and profligate in his private life, rendering him an icon for artists, writers, politicians, and soldiers for many centuries. He was especially famous for his spectacular siege operations against enemy cities, and gained his unique nickname from his innovation in building gigantic siege engines, which became legendary in the ancient world. However, much of Demetrius' life was enigmatic, oscillating wildly between successful and catastrophic ventures, and his intrinsic qualities remain debatable to this day. What is indisputable is that he presided over a formative period in history marked by great flux and enormous change. His endeavours resulted in the fusion of Asiatic and Greek cultures, producing the hybrid Hellenistic kingdoms which dominated the ancient world for some 200 years until the rise of the Roman Empire. The period is of crucial importance in ancient Greek history, and marks the point from which Hellenistic influence became fundamental in the development of modern Western culture.
Živa antika / Antiquité vivante 69, 2019, 59–84
King Demetrius II of Macedon: In the Shadow of Father and SonThe article is an attempt to summarize all the available information from sources about Demetrius II (239–229 B.C.), the most obscure king from the Antigonid dynasty, and the history of the Macedonian state during his reign. Among the others the following matters are considered: Demetrius’ marriages when he was initially the heir to the throne and then the king; the possibility of his co-ruling with the father, Antigonus Gonatas; the calculation of Demetrius’ regnal years; his internal, foreign and military policies.
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According to Diodorus, Demetrius, the son of Antigonus Monophthalmus, earned his famous sobriquet, 'Poliorcetes' during his spectacular siege of Rhodes in-BC. The ancient implications of this unique epithet are unremarkable, but modern scholarship has often taken the allocation of the surname, in retrospect, to be ironic. The thinking goes that, in the context of Rhodes, Demetrius was certainly the besieger, but he was not the taker of that city. This notion probably originates with Plutarch, whose Life of Demetrius is built around the trope that his famous subject aspired to much, but accomplished little. However, a systematic scrutiny of Demetrius' lifelong siege enterprises demonstrates that his nickname was, in fact, well-deserved. This paper suggests that the image of Demetrius as a 'Besieger' but not a 'Taker' of cities is more a construct facilitated by Plutarch and peddled by superficial modern analyses, than a reality.
Alone amongst all of Alexander’s successors, Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, lived to see a stellar career plumb the depths of misfortune. Plutarch astutely observed that, “in none of the kings did Tyche (Fortune) take such sudden twists and turns, and never in the deeds of others did she so appear to wane and wax, shrink and shine, weaken and become all powerful”. Only the quirks of outrageous fortune could explain how Demetrius, who was hailed as a living god in Athens, was also the only Hellenistic king to end his days in captivity.
Strategy of King Demetrius (Demetre) I
Strategy of King Demetrius Demetre I2023 •
The present paper deals with the wars and campaigns fought during the reign of Demetrius I. A number of issues of grand and military strategies are discussed. Due to the lack of historical sources, it is difficult to firmly prove some ideas and only making interpretations, assumptions and suppositions is possible.
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