Antigonus the One-Eyed

The author of Pyrrhus of Epirus "tells the exciting story of one of those competing to succeed Alexander the Great . . . Recommended." —Firetrench Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) as "the oldest and greatest of Alexander''s successors." Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander''s death, Antigonus, then governor of the obscure province of Phrygia, seemed one of the least likely of his commanders to seize the dead king''s inheritance. Yet within eight years of the king''s passing, through a combination of military skill and political shrewdness, he had conquered the Asian portion of the empire. Antigonus'' success caused those who controlled the European and Egyptian parts of the empire to unite against him. For another fourteen years he would wage war against a coalition of the other Successors, Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Seleucus and Cassander.