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Cassander

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[kuh-san-der] / kəˈsæn dər /

noun

  1. c354-297 b.c., king of Macedonia 301-297 (son of Antipater).


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Cassander Titley-O’Neal, director of the National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands, says an ongoing spaying and neutering project aims to limit Anegada’s cat population.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022

The latter by this time had already had an eventful career: a Macedonian-leaning social conservative, he was already a prolific author when Cassander, the strongman in Pella, installed him as dictator of Athens.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Besides Alexander he had other pupils: Callisthenes, Cassander, Marsyas, Phanias, and Theophrastus of Eresus, who is said to have had land at Stagira.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

He is said to have travelled extensively in the service of King Cassander of Macedonia.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Ingeborg Andersen

Then, unable longer to stand the horrors and privations of a besieged town, Olympias the Princess and little King Alexander, her grandson, surrendered to Cassander, after getting him to promise to do them no harm.

From Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 by Various

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