ABSTRACT
Demetrius attempted to control personal expenditures for show by limiting the amount that could be spent on such important family events as weddings and funerals. When Demetrius Poliorketes and his father King Antigonos seized Athens and removed Demetrius of Phalerum in the year 307, they posed as liberators and the restorers of democracy. Demetrius himself had clear connections with Aristotle's school and could easily be depicted as pro-Macedonian. When Demetrius Poliorketes and his father King Antigonos seized Athens and removed Demetrius of Phalerum in the year 307, they posed as liberators and the restorers of democracy. Demetrius' supposed military career, moreover, has prevented scholars from seeing the real terms imposed by Kassander on the Athenians in the year 317. Demetrius was primarily a diplomat and a lawgiver. In his private capacity, he was also a prominent student of philosophy and a very productive scholar/writer.
