Hellenistic leaders

• Antipater
  Antipater
  Antipater was a Macedonian general and a supporter of kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. In 320 BC, he became Regent of all of Alexander's Empire. Antipater was one of the sons of a Macedonian nobleman called Iollas or Iolaus and his family were distant collateral relatives to the...
  
   (c. 397–319 BC), Macedonian general
• Antipater II of Macedon
  Antipater II of Macedon
  Antipater II of Macedon , was the son of Cassander and Thessalonike of Macedon, who was a half-sister of Alexander the Great. He was king of Macedon from 297 BC until 294 BC, jointly with his brother Alexander V. Eventually, he murdered his mother and ousted his brother from the throne...
  
   king of Macedon from 297 to 294 BC
• Antipater Etesias
  Antipater Etesias
  Antipater Etesias was the son of Cassander's brother Phillip. He became king after the death of Ptolemy Keraunos and the ousting of Meleager. His reign lasted only a period of 45 days. The Macedonians gave Antipater the name Etesias, because the etesian winds blew during the short time that he was...
  
   (died 279 BC), king of Macedon
• Antipater of Derbe
  Antipater of Derbe
  Antipater of Derbe was a tyrant or prince of Derbe. He was a friend of Cicero's, one of whose letters, of uncertain date, is addressed on Antipater's behalf to Quintus Philippus, proconsul of the province of Asia, who was offended with Antipater and therefore held his sons hostage. Antipater of...
  
  

Herodians

• Antipater the Idumaean
  Antipater the Idumaean
  Antipater I the Idumaean was the founder of the Herodian Dynasty and father of Herod the Great. According to Josephus, he was the son of Antipas...
  
   (died 43 BC), father of Herod the Great
• Antipater (son of Herod I)
  Antipater (son of Herod I)
  Antipater II was Herod the Great's first-born son, his only child by his first wife Doris. He was named after his paternal grandfather Antipater the Idumaean. He and his mother were exiled after Herod divorced her between 43 BC and 40 BC to marry Mariamne I. However, he was recalled following...
  
   (46–4 BC), son of Herod the Great

Philosophers

• Antipater of Cyrene
  Antipater of Cyrene
  Antipater of Cyrene was one of the disciples of Aristippus, the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He had a pupil called Epitimedes of Cyrene. According to Cicero, he was blind, and when some women bewailed the fact, he replied, "What do you mean? Do you think the night can furnish no...
  
   (c. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Cyrenaic school
• Antipater of Sidon
  Antipater of Sidon
  Antipater of Sidon , Antipatros or Antipatros Sidonios in the Anthologies, was a Greek poet in the second half of the 2nd century BC....
  
   (2nd century BC), best known for his list of the Seven Wonders of the World
• Antipater of Tarsus
  Antipater of Tarsus
  Antipater of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius...
  
   (died 130 BC), Stoic philosopher
• Antipater of Tyre
  Antipater of Tyre
  Antipater of Tyre was a Stoic philosopher, and a contemporary of Cato the Younger and Cicero. Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when the latter was a young man. He appears to be the same as the Antipater of Tyre mentioned by Strabo....
  
   (died 45 BC), Stoic philosopher

Writers

• Antipater of Thessalonica
  Antipater of Thessalonica
  Antipater of Thessalonica was the author of over a hundred epigrams in the Greek Anthology. He is the most copious and perhaps the most interesting of the Augustan epigrammatists...
  
   (1st century BC), poet
• Antipater (1st century BC physician)
  Antipater (1st century BC physician)
  Antipater was an ancient Greek physician and author of a work titled "On the Soul", of which the second book is quoted by the Scholiast on Homer, in which he said that the soul increased, diminished, and at last perished with the body; and which may very possibly be the work quoted by Diogenes...
  
  
• Aelius Antipater
  Aelius Antipater
  Aelius Antipater or Antipater of Hierapolis was a Greek sophist and rhetorician.He was a son of Zeuxidemus, and a pupil of Adrianus, Pollux, and Zeno...
  
  , writer and governor (Severan era)
• Lucius Coelius Antipater
  Lucius Coelius Antipater
  Lucius Coelius Antipater was a Roman jurist and historian. He is not to be confused with Coelius Sabinus, the Coelius of the Digest. He was a contemporary of C. Gracchus ; L...
  
  , annalist, 2nd c BC
• Antipater (2nd century physician)
  Antipater (2nd century physician)
  Antipater was an ancient Greek physician and contemporary of Galen at Rome in the 2nd century, who gives an account of his death and the morbid symptoms that preceded it....
  
  
• Antipater of Bostra
  Antipater of Bostra
  Antipater of Bostra was a Greek prelate and one of the foremost critics of Origen. He lived in the 5th century.-External links:*...
  
  , bishop of Bostra in Arabia, fl. 460. His chief work was "Antirresis", a reply to Pamphilus
  Pamphilus
  Pamphilus may refer to:* Pamphilus , son of Aegimius* Pamphilus of Amphipolis, painter of 4th century BC head of Sicyonian school* Pamphilus of Alexandria, grammarian in the 1st century...
  
  's "Apology for Origen"

Others

• Antipater, a writer on the interpretation of dreams, mentioned by Artemidorus
  Artemidorus
  Artemidorus Daldianus or Ephesius was a professional diviner who lived in the 2nd century. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work the Oneirocritica, .-Life and work:...
  
   (Oneirocritica
  Oneirocritica
  Oneirocritica is an ancient Greek treatise on dream interpretation written by Artemidorus in the 2nd century AD, and is the first extant Greek work on the subject, in five books...
  
  iv. 64)
• Antipater of Acanthus
  Acanthus (Greece)
  Ierissos Modern Greek: or Acanthus was an ancient Greek city on the Athos peninsula. It was located on the north-east side of Akti, on the most eastern peninsula of Chalcidice...
  
  , a Greek grammarian of uncertain date (Ptolem. Heph.
  Ptolemaeus Chennus
  Ptolemaeus Chennus or Chennos , of Alexandria, was a Greek grammarian during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.According to the Suda, he was the author of an historical drama named Sphinx, of an epic, Anthomeros, in 24 books and a Strange History...
  
   ap. Phot. Cod.
  Bibliotheca (Photius)
  The Bibliotheca or Myriobiblon was a 9th century work of Byzantine Patriarch Photius, dedicated to his brother and composed of 279 reviews of books which he had read. It was not meant to be used as a reference work, but was widely used as such in the 9th century, and is generally seen as the first...
  
   190; Eustath.
  Eustathius of Thessalonica
  Archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica was a Greek bishop and scholar. He is most noted for his contemporary account of the sack of Thessalonike by the Normans in 1185, for his orations and for his commentaries on Homer, which incorporate many remarks by much earlier researchers.- Life :After being...
  
   ad Hom.
  Homer
  In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
  
   Od.
  Odyssey
  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature...
  
   xi. p. 453), probably the same as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Aristophanes
  Aristophanes
  Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
  
   (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.
  Vitruvius
  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ....
  
   ix. 7)
• Antipater, a celebrated silver-chaser (Naturalis Historia
  Naturalis Historia
  The Natural History is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77–79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny...
  
  , xxxiii. 55)

See also

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