Antipater II the Idumean was the son of Antipas (Antipater I), governor of Idumea first under King Yannai Alexander of Judea then under Queen Shlomtzion (Salome Alexandra) of Judea. Antipas and ...
322 B.C. was one of the most disastrous years in the history of Athens, if not the worst. Two of its most distinguished sons, the philosophers Demosthenes and Hyperides, died within a week, and ...