Ruler · 319 – 240 BCE

Antigonus II Gonatas

Lived 319 – 240 BCE; military personnel. King of Macedonia (Macedonia), 277 BCE – 239 BCE; also in the line of Antigonid dynasty.

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Lived: 319 BCE – 240 BCE; 79 years
In office: 38 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: dates disagree; read off the dates alone

King of Macedonia

Macedonia · the 20th of 25 dated reigns · 393 BCE – 168 BCE

16 before

Meleager279 BCE

Antipater Etesias279 BCE

Sosthenes of Macedon279 BCE – 277 BCE

Antigonus II Gonatas277 BCE – 239 BCE

Pyrrhus of Epirus274 BCE – 272 BCE

Demetrius II Aetolicus239 BCE – 229 BCE

Antigonus III Doson229 BCE – 221 BCE

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 277 BCE – 239 BCE · 38 years · came to it aged 42

Left it: dates disagreeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 239 BCE, after the death recorded in 240 BCE

Also in the line of Antigonid dynasty (2nd of 6).

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