Stratonice
- daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and wife of Seleucus Nicator, Val. Max. 5, 7, ext. 1; Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 139 sq.
(Στρατονίκη).
1. One of the daughters of Thespius, and by Heracles the mother of Atromus. (Apollod. 2.7.3.)
2. A daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe. (Apollod. 1.7.7.)
3. The wife of Melaneus and the mother of Eurytus. (Hes. Fragm. 48.) [L.S]
(Στρατονίκη).
1. A sister of Perdiccas II., king of Macedonia, who was given by him in marriage to the Thracian prince Seuthes, the nephew of Sitalces, as a reward for the service rendered him by the former in persuading Sitalces to withdraw from Macedonia. (Thuc. 2.101.)
2. Daughter of Corrhaeus (a Macedonian otherwise unknown), and wife of Antigonus, king of Asia, by whom she became the mother of two sons, Demetrius Poliorcetes and Philippus, who died in B. C. 306 (Plut. Demetr. 2). In a B. C. 320 she is mentioned as entering into negotiations with Docimus, when that general was shut up with the other adherents of Perdiccas, in a fortress of Phrygia : but having induced him to quit his stronghold, she caused him to be seized and detained as a prisoner (Diod. 19.16). After the battle of Ipsus she fled from Cilicia (where she had awaited the issue of the campaign) with her son Demetrius to Salamis in Cyprus, B. C. 301. (Id. xxi. Exc. Hoeschel. p. 480.) Here she probably died, as we hear nothing of her when the island fell into the power of Ptolemy some years afterwards.
3. Daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila, the daughter of Antipater. In B. C. 300, at which time she could not have been more than seventeen years of age, her hand was solicited by Seleucus, king of Syria, and she was conducted by her father Demetrius to Rhosus, on the Pierian coast, where her nuptials were celebrated with the utmost magnificence (Plut. Demetr. 31, 32). Notwithstanding the disparity of their ages, she appears to have lived in perfect harmony with the old king for some years, and had already borne him one child, when it was discovered that her step-son Antiochus was deeply enamoured of her, and Seleucus, in order to save the life of his son, which was endangered by the violence of his passion, gave up Stratonice in marriage to the young prince, whom he at the same time constituted king of the provinces of Upper Asia. (Plut. Dem. 38 ; Appian. syr. 59 ; and the other authorities cited under Erasistratus, where the well-known circumstances of this story are more fully related.) The union commenced under such strange auspices seems to have been a prosperous one, but we find little subsequent mention of Stratonice. She bore three children to Antiochus : 1. Antiochus II., surnamed Theos; 2. Apama, married to Magas, king of Cyrene; and 3. Stratonice [No. 4.]. The city of Stratoniceia in Caria was named after her, but whether it was founded in her honour by Seleucus or by Antiochus, is uncertain. (Strab. xiv. p.660; Steph. Byz. s. v. Στρατονίκεια.)
4. Daughter of the preceding and of Antiochus I., was married to Demetrius II., king of Macedonia. (Euseb. Arm. i. p. 164.) The period of their marriage is unknown; but she appears to have remained in Macedonia till about B. C. 239, when she quitted Demetrius in disgust, on account of his second marriage with Phthia, the daughter of Olympias, and retired to Syria. Here she in vain incited her nephew Seleucus II. to avenge the insult offered her by declaring war against the Macedonian king. According to another account, she was in hopes to induce Seleucus himself to marry her; but that monarch was wholly occupied with the recovery of Babylonia and the upper provinces of the empire. While he was thus engaged, Stratonice took advantage of his absence to raise a revolt against him at Antioch; but she was easily expelled from that city on the return of Seleucus, and took refuge in Seleucia, where she was besieged, taken prisoner, and put to death. (Just. 28.1; Agatharchides, apud Joseph. c. Apion. 1.22; Niebuhr, Kl. Schriften, p. 254 ; Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii. p. 414.)
5. A daughter of Antiochus II., king of Syria, married to Ariarathes III., king of Cappadocia. (Diod. xxxi. Exc. Phot. p. 518; Euseb. Arm. i. p. 164.)
6. One of the numerous wives of Mithridates the Great, was originally a woman of mean birth, the daughter of a harper, but obtained such influence over the king as to become one of his favourite wives; and when he was compelled to undertake his perilous retreat round the Euxine sea, she was left by him in charge of a strong fortress, in which he had deposited a large amount of treasure. She was, however, induced to betray both the fortress and treasures into the hands of Pompey, on condition that he should spare the life of her son Xiphares; but Mithridates, in order to punish her for this treason, put Xiphares to death before her eyes. (Appian, Mithr. 107 ; Plut. Pomp. 36 ; D. C. 37.7.) [E.H.B]
STRATONI´CE (Στρατονίκη, Ptol. 3.13.11), a town of Chalcidice in Macedonia, which Ptolemy places on the Singitic gulf. Leake (Northern Greece, vol. 3. p. 160) considers that there is here the same mistake as in the case of Acanthus [ACANTHUS], and refers it to theHellenic remains on the coastof the Strymonic gulf in the confined valley of Stratoni.
[E.B.J](Στρατονίκη). The daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Phila, the daughter of Antipater. In B.C. 300, at which time she could not have been more than seventeen years of age, she was married to Seleucus, king of Syria. Notwithstanding the disparity of their ages, she lived in harmony with the old king for some years, when it was discovered that her stepson Antiochus was deeply enamoured of her, and Seleucus, in order to save the life of his son, which was endangered by the violence of his passion, gave up Stratonicé in marriage to the young prince (Plut. Demetr. 31, 32, 38).
- Apollod. 1.7.5
- mother of Atromus by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.7