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Antigonus I Monophthalmus 382-301 BC
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Image above:
Ian Beattie is
Antigonus.
From Oliver
Stone's movie
 Alexander
(2004) |
Antigonus was a Macedonian general and one of the
diadochi, which is the name for
Alexander the Great's
successors.
Trouble was, he had only one eye. Historians don't know how it happened,
but hence, he was also called Antigonus I Cyclops or
Antigonus I Monophthalmus. If you're monophthalmic, you're
one-eyed. That's just in from the medical dictionary.
Back to Antigonus.
Antigonus became a powerful man, in
fact king over Asia Minor in 306, and started the
Antigonid Dynasty. And while he
was at it, he also made his own coins:
In 301 BC, Antigonus got himself killed
in the
Battle
of Ipsus.
THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE IN 301 BC
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