ABSTRACT
Antigonus Gonatas was born in 319 BC and died in 239 BC. He lived a long life of eighty years and was king of Macedonia, a major power, for half of his long life. The time in which he lived was a period of turbulent transition, full of war and change. Yet it is difficult to know this man, to understand his character; indeed, it is often impossible even to know what he did, still less why, or how, he did it. The evidence is lacking, as is well known.
