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Document Details : Title: The Antigonid Campaign in Cyprus, 306 BC Author(s): WHEATLEY, Pat Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 31 Date: 2001 Pages: 133-156 DOI: 10.2143/AS.31.0.49 Abstract : One of the crucial turning points in the continual ebb and flow of power which characterises the decades following the death of Alexander the Great is the campaign fought in Cyprus between the Antigonids and Ptolemy Soter in 306 BC. The centrepiece of the campaign is, naturally, the great sea-battle fought near Salamis, but the lead-up to this momentous engagement, and the historical ripples which emanated from it, are arguably of far greater importance, although they have received much less scrutiny from scholars of the epoch. Consequently, several aspects of the affair amply repay further investigation. These include the actual timing and preliminary phases of the campaign, some source anomalies concerning the battle of Salamis itself, and the short- and long-term historical repercussions of the overwhelming victory achieved by Demetrius Poliorcetes on behalf of his father, Antigonus Monophthalmus. The campaign also enables analysis of a crucial transitional stage in the career of Demetrius himself, and it is these matters which the present paper seeks to address. |
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