Antipater (disambiguation)

Several notable persons of the ancient world were named Antipater, Antipatros (from Greek: Αντιπάτερ, Αντίπατρος, literally meaning "like the father"):

Hellenistic leaders

• Antipater (c. 397–319 BC), Macedonian general
• Antipater II of Macedon king of Macedon from 297 to 294 BC
• Antipater Etesias (died 279 BC), king of Macedon
• Antipater of Derbe

Herodians

• Antipater the Idumaean (died 43 BC), father of Herod the Great
• Antipater (son of Herod I) (46–4 BC), son of Herod the Great

Philosophers

• Antipater of Cyrene (c. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Cyrenaic school
• Antipater of Sidon (2nd century BC), best known for his list of the Seven Wonders of the World
• Antipater of Tarsus (died 130 BC), Stoic philosopher
• Antipater of Tyre (died 45 BC), Stoic philosopher

Writers

• Antipater of Thessalonica (1st century BC), poet
• Antipater (1st century BC physician)
• Aelius Antipater, writer and governor (Severan era)
• Lucius Coelius Antipater, annalist, 2nd c BC
• Antipater (2nd century physician)
• Antipater of Bostra, bishop of Bostra in Arabia, fl. 460. His chief work was "Antirresis", a reply to Pamphilus's "Apology for Origen"

Others

• Antipater, a writer on the interpretation of dreams, mentioned by Artemidorus (Oneirocritica iv. 64)
• Antipater of Acanthus, a Greek grammarian of uncertain date (Ptolem. Heph. ap. Phot. Cod. 190; Eustath. ad Hom. Od. xi. p. 453), probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes (Av. 1403)
• Antipater, an astrologer or mathematician who wrote a work upon genethialogia, in which he endeavoured to explain man's fate, not from the circumstances under which he was born, but from those under which he had been conceived (Vitruv. ix. 7)
• Antipater, a celebrated silver-chaser (Naturalis Historia, xxxiii. 55)
• Antipater Epigonos, a Greek Prince from Asia Minor who was the son of Epigonos of Telmessos

See also

• The modern surname Antipa(s) comes from Antipater. See:
  • Antipas (disambiguation)
  • Stella Antipa, Greek actress

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).