B.C. 301. Settlement after the battle of Ipsus, in which Antigonus fell.

(Lysimachus and Seleucus against Antigonus and Demetrius.)

King of Egypt.Ptolemy, s. of Lagus, ob. 283.
King of Syria.Seleucus Nicanor, ob. B.C. 280.
King of Thrace.Lysimachus, ob. 281.
King of Macedonia.Cassander, ob. B.C. 297.
Greece is nominally free, but in B.C. 295Demetrius takes Athens, and becoming King ofMacedonia in B.C. 295 to B.C. 287, he retainsGreece as part of the kingdom. In the confusionwhich followed it was practically free.

APPENDIX II.

THE KINGS OF EGYPT, SYRIA, AND MACEDONIA, TO THE END OF THE PERIOD EMBRACED IN POLYBIUS’S HISTORY

B.C.EGYPTB.C.SYRIA
306-285Ptolemy, s. of Lagus306-301Antigonus the One-eyed
283-247Ptolemy II. Philadelphus301-280Seleucus Nicanor
247-222Ptolemy III. Euergetes280-261Antiochus I. Soter, s. of
Antigonus the One-eyed
222-205Ptolemy IV. Philopator246-226Seleucus II. Callinicus
205-181Ptolemy V. Epiphanes226-223Seleucus III. Alexander or Ceraunus
181-146Ptolemy VI. Philometor223-187Antiochus III. the Great
170-154Ptolemy VII. Physcon,
joint king with his
brother, Ptolemy VI
187-175Seleucus IV. Philopator
146-117Ptolemy VII. sole king175-164Antiochus IV. Epiphanes
164-162Antiochus V. Eupator
162-150Demetrius I. Soter
150-147Alexander Balas
147-125Demetrius II. Nicator
B.C.MACEDONIA
323-311

Alexander IV.
323-317Philip III. (Arrhidaeus)
311-306 Regency of Cassander
306-296 Cassander
296 Philip IV. s. of Cassander
296-294 Antipater

sons of Cassander
Alexander
294-287 Demetrius I. Poliercetes, ob. 283
287-281 Divided between Lysimachus and Pyrrhus
281-280

Seleucus, Nicanor
Ptolemy Ceraunus, s. of Ptolemy of Egypt
280-277 [Various claimants]
277-239 Antigonus Gonatas, s. of Demetrius I.
239-229 Demetrius II. s. of Gonatas.
229-179 Philip V. s. of Demetrius II.
[Antigonus Doson, nominally his guardian assumes the crown B.C. 229-220]
179-168 Perseus [Macedonia a Roman province]