Cassander (Greek: Κάσσανδρος) was a Macedonian nobleman who lived in the 4th century BC.
Cassander was the son of Iolaus by a mother whose name is unknown, and was the brother of the powerful Regent and general Antipater.
[1] Cassander’s family were distant collateral relatives to the Argead dynasty.
[2] Cassander, like Antipater, was originally from the Macedonian city of Paliura[3] and was a contemporary to Aristotle.
He married a Greek Macedonian noblewoman whose name is unknown, and they had a child: a daughter called Antigone[5] who married a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas[6] by whom she had a daughter called Berenice I of Egypt.