person
Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius
also: Demetrius Poliorcetes, Demetrius the Besieger, Demetrium
Hellenistic king of Macedon (337-283 BC), son of Antigonus the One-Eyed, surnamed Poliorcetes ("the Besieger"). Cicero cites the Macedonians' mass desertion of him for Pyrrhus as proof that fear cannot hold power.
Reading notes
- On Duties §2.26 Demetrius
Demetrius I Poliorcetes, king of Macedon (337-283 BC); his Macedonian soldiers deserted him wholesale for Pyrrhus, an instance of fear's failure to hold a throne.