Magas (Greek: Mάγας) was a Greek Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC. His origin is obscure except that he came from the region of Eordaea.[1] Little is known about his life.
Magas married the noblewoman Antigone, the child of Cassander and the niece of the powerful regent Antipater.[2] His marriage to Antigone reveals that Magas was a nobleman of some social status and influence as he married a close relation to the powerful regent and his wife was a distant collateral relative to the Argead dynasty.[3] After Magas married Antigone, they settled in Eordaea. Antigone bore Magas a daughter, his only known child, Berenice I of Egypt.[2][3] Magas had two namesakes: his grandson Magas of Cyrene and his great-great-grandson Magas of Egypt.
^"Ptolemaic Genealogy: Berenice I, Footnote 2". Archived from the original on 2011-10-05.
^ abHeckel (2006). Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 71.
^ ab"Ptolemaic Dynasty – Affiliated Lines: The Antipatrids". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
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