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Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius I, called Poliorcetes, 'the Besieger', was a Macedonian general, son of Antigonus I. He freed Athens in 307 BCE and besieged Rhodes in 305–304 BCE with huge siege engines, without success. He seized the throne of Macedon in 294 BCE, displacing the Antipatrids, but lost it in 288 BCE and died a captive of Seleucus.
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