What is "antigonus"

Antigonus , a Greek name meaning "comparable to his father" or "worthy of his father", may refer to:

• Three Macedonian kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great in Asia:
  • Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382–301 BC)
  • Antigonus II Gonatas (319–239 BC)
  • Antigonus III Doson (263–221 BC)
    • Antigonus, son of Echecrates, the brother of Antigonus III Doson
• Antigonus (historian), a Greek writer on history
• Antigonus of Alexandria, ancient Greek grammarian
• Antigonus of Cumae, ancient Greek writer on agriculture
• Antigonus, a writer on painting, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, is perhaps the same as the sculptor with this name, whom we know to have written on statuary.
• Antigonus, a general of Perseus in the war with the Romans, was sent to Aenia to guard the coast.
• Antigonus (sculptor), a Greek statuary
• Antigonus (physician), an ancient Greek surgeon
• Antigonos (son of Callas) Macedonian hetairos and athlete
• Antigonus of Carystus, 3rd century BC Greek writer on various subjects
• Antigonus of Sokho, Jewish scholar of the third century BC.
• Antigonus II Mattathias (died 37 BC), the last ruler of the Hasmonean kingdom of Judea
• Antigonus (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterflies

Antigonus is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Antigonus was a Greek writer on the history of Italy. It has been supposed that the Antigonus mentioned by Plutarch is the same as this historian, but the saying there noted belongs to a king Antigonus, and not to the historian.

Antigonus was a sculptor of ancient Greece, and an eminent writer upon his art, was one of the artists who represented the battles of Attalus I and Eumenes against the Gauls. He lived, therefore, about 239 BCE, when Attalus I, king of Pergamus, conquered the Gauls. A little further on, Pliny says, "Antigonus et perixyomenon, tyrannicidasque supra dictos," where one of the best manuscripts. has "Antignotus et luctatores, perixyomenon," &c.

Antigonus was an ancient Greek army surgeon, mentioned by Galen, who must therefore have lived in or before the second century CE. Marcellus Empiricus quotes a physician of the same name, who may very possibly be the same person; and Lucian mentions an impudent quack named Antigonus, who among other things, said that one of his patients had been restored to life after having been buried for twenty days.