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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
- ^ Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 2
- ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
- ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
- ^ Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, p.71
- ^ Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids
Sources
- Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I
- Ptolemaic Dynasty - Affiliated Lines: Antipatrids
- W. Heckel, Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander’s empire, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
Categories:- 4th-century BC Greek people
- 4th-century BC Macedonians
- Ptolemaic dynasty
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