Antigonus, in order to win the support …
Years: 315BCE - 315BCE
Antigonus, in order to win the support of the Greek city-states, whose resistance to subjugation presents the chief obstacle to the formation of a Hellenistic monarchy, announces to his assembled army that all the Greeks shall be free, autonomous, and ungarrisoned.
This political slogan is to be sounded repeatedly—almost immediately by Ptolemy (and for a final time by the Romans in 196).
Seleucus in the resulting coalition war (315-311 BCE) is made one of Ptolemy's generals.
