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.