Prepelaus

Prepelaos (Greek Πρεπέλαος; † after 302 BC) was a Macedonian general in the service of King Cassander during Diadochenkriege in the 4th century BC.

Prepelaos took the position of a narrow confidence man against Cassander, for which he had performed the duties of a general and statesman. During the third Diadochenkrieges he had successfully BC Alexander, the son of Cassander - opponent Polyperchon moved to a page changes and thus almost the whole Peloponnesus for his master won 315. Shortly thereafter Prepelaos led to a landing operation on the coast of Caria, to support the satraps Asandros against Antigonus Monophthalmos. They were, however, beaten by the antigonidischen General Ptolemy in battle, whereupon Caria came under the rule of Antigonus.

In the year 311 BC Prepelaos was the diplomatic negotiator for Cassander at the court of Antigonus Monophthalmos while involved in drafting the " Diadochenfriedens ". This is evident from a letter of Antigonus to the City of skepticism (now Kurşunlu Tepe in Turkey), which has been preserved there as inscription.

In the fourth Diadochenkrieg Prepelaos BC was appointed by Cassander governor of Corinth 304, but this town and its castle Akrokorinth could not hold against the returning from Asia Demetrios Poliorketes. In the summer of 302 BC, he was sent by Cassander with a small force to Lysimachus to support this in the invasion of Asia Minor against Antigonus. After the conquest of Lampsacus he was sent by Lysimachus with 6,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry to conquer the aiolischen and Ionian coast cities. One by one he conquered Adramyttion and Ephesus, where he freed the hundred Rhodian hostages that had to be used to 304 BC passed after the siege of Rhodes to Demetrios Poliorketes. Subsequently conquered Prepelaos also Teos and Colophon; Erythrai and Klazomenai him defied successful, however, for which he devastated their surrounding areas. Then, however, he managed with success, the governor of Sardis, Phoinix to move the page breaks to Lysimachus.

Then Prepelaos is no longer mentioned in the traditions. Whether he had taken part in the summer of 301 BC, at the decisive battle of Ipsos, was defeated in the Monophthalmos Antigonus, is therefore to clarify ambiguous.