Antigone of Epirus

Antigone of Epirus (Greek Ἀντιγόνη; * around 320 BC in Macedonia; † around 295 BC ) was the first wife of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus in Molosser.

Antigone was the daughter of the Macedonian nobles and later Egyptian queen Berenice I and whose first husband Philip, an unspecified Macedonians. To 320 BC Berenice maid of honor allied with her Eurydice, the bride of Ptolemy I., and accompanied them to Egypt. As early as 317 BC Ptolemy I began a love affair with Berenice and took it probably soon for further wife.

Ptolemy I married his stepdaughter Antigone with Pyrrhus, as this 299/298 BC, came as a hostage at the court of Alexandria to serve as a guarantee for the good conduct of Demetrius Poliorketes. In addition, the Egyptian king Pyrrhus supported with an army, ships and money in the reoccupation of Epirus, BC managed 297. Antigone followed her husband to Epirus and probably bore him a daughter named Olympias, and in any case a son Ptolemy, in whose birth year (around 295 BC), perhaps in childbirth, died. Soon after her death Pyrrhus Lanassa took her to wife.