Antigone1, daughter of Berenice I by her first husband Philip2, born before 3173, married 299/298 to Pyrrhus I king of Epirus as his first wife4, by whom she had one or two children, Ptolemy5 and probably Olympias6, died 2957, possibly in childbirth8.
[1] PP VI 14483. Gr: Antigonh. Ý
[3] Since Berenice I began her liaison with Ptolemy I at or before this time, and Philip had died before she came to Egypt. Ý
[4] Plutarch Pyrrhus 4.4, Pausanias 1.11.5. Date inferred from the fact that Pyrrhus was sent to Egypt as a hostage for Demetrius Poliorcetes in 299 during part of a short-lived rapprochement between Demetrius and Ptolemy, and after the marriage was sent back to reconquer Epirus a couple of years later. Ý
[6] Justin 28.1. Olympias married her brother Alexander (son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa) and was by him the mother of kings Pyrrhus II and Ptolemy of Epirus, and of Phthia, second wife of Demetrius II of Macedon. The maternity of Olympias is not expicitly stated, but since full sibling incest was not practiced in Epirus, and since she named one of her sons Ptolemy, it is probable that she was the daughter of Antigone. Since her brother Ptolemy was born in the year of Antigone's death, she was probably older than him. Ý
[7] Inferred as follows: (a) Plutarch (Pyrrhus 9) states that Pyrrhus married his subsequent wives after the death of Antigone (b) His son Alexander, by his second wife Lanassa, daughter of Agathocles king of Sicily, was younger than his half-brother Ptolemy (who was 15 at the time) when Pyrrhus took him with him on his Italian expedition in 280 (Justin, 18.1), but was old enough to be given command of the garrison at Locri two years later when Pyrrhus returned from Sicily to Italy (Justin 18.2 -- consulship of G. Fabricius Luscinus and Q. Aemilius Pappus (Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21)), hence must have been born c294/3. Hence Pyrrhus' marriage to Lanassa must have occurred in 295/4. Further Diodorus (10.11) mentions the marriage to Lanassa immediately before his account of the battle of Sentinum which took place in 295 (consulship of Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus and P. Decius Mus). See P. Garoufalias, Pyrrhus King of Epirus 250 n. 15. Ý
[8] Since Antigone died in the same year as her son was born. Ý