Magas of Macedon

Magas of Macedon

Magas (Greek: Mάγας) was a Greek Macedonian nobleman that lived in the 4th century BC.

Magas was a local nobleman from obscure origins and was from Eordeaea.[1] Little is known on his life.

Magas married the noblewoman Antigone, the child of Cassander and the niece of the powerful Regent Antipater.[2] His marriage to Antigone reveals that Magas was a nobleman of some social status and influence as he married a close relation to the powerful Regent and his wife was a distant collateral relative to the Argead dynasty.[3]

After Magas married Antigone, they settled in Eordeaea. Antigone bore Magas a daughter; his only known child Berenice I of Egypt.[4][5] Magas had two namesakes: his grandson Magas of Cyrene and his great, great grandson Magas of Egypt.

References

  1. ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 2
  2. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
  3. ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
  4. ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
  5. ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids

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