Nicaea of Macedon

Nikaia (Greek Nίκαια; † BC before 302) was a daughter of the Macedonian regent Antipater and successively married to the Diadochi Perdiccas († 320 BC) and Lysimachus († 281 BC).

Under the escort of her brother Iolaus Nikaia was brought in the year 321 BC in Asia Minor, where she was to marry the regent of Alexander's empire, Perdiccas. This marriage project was requested by Perdiccas himself since he is so in a good agreement with Antipater, who had been the governor of Macedonia, translated wanted. But at the same time appeared in Asia Minor, the sister of Alexander the Great, Princess Cleopatra, who in turn offered to the Regent to marriage. His henchman Eumenes once favored this alternative, but Perdiccas ' brother Alcetes advised him to marry Nikaia. Ultimately, Perdiccas then decided yet for the " Royal Wedding " and repudiated it Nikaia, what a rift between him and Antipater and thus contributed to the outbreak of the First Diadochenkrieg.

After that, nothing more reports directly of Nicaea, by Strabo, however, is still occupied with their marriage Lysimachus, the ruler of Thrace. This was probably commissioned by her father before his death in the autumn of 319 BC for his wife, he and her brother Cassander had it 's closest allies in the fight against Antigonus Monophthalmos. Nikaia is likely to have died before the year 302 BC, as Lysimachus married as his second wife that year Amastris. He thought of her, however, by the re-establishment of after the battle of Ipsos 301 BC conquered Antigoneia in Bithynia on Lake Ascanius, which he renamed after her name (now the Turkish Iznik ).

Your children from his marriage to Lysimachus were:

  • Agathocles († 283/282 BC)
  • Arsinoe I ( † 279 BC ), first wife of King Ptolemy II of Egypt
  • Eurydice († 287 BC), married to King Antipater I of Macedon
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