Demetrius I of Macedon
King of Macedon
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He earned the title "Besieger of Cities" and spent decades clawing through the wreckage of Alexander's empire—besieging Rhodes, seizing Athens twice, winning and losing Macedon, pioneering siege engines that changed warfare. The son of a would-be king died a captive.
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Demetrius was the son of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of Alexander's generals carving out kingdoms from the ruins. In 307 BC he took Athens from a rival's governor, then crushed Ptolemy I at Salamis the next year—victory enough that his father declared himself king over lands stretching from the Aegean to the Middle East. The failed siege of Rhodes in 305 gave him his nickname. In 301 a coalition of former allies killed his father at Ipsus and shattered their Asian empire. Demetrius clawed back: by 294 he held Athens again and ruled Macedon, but was driven out in 288 by Pyrrhus and Lysimachu…
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