Perilaus (Ancient Greek: Περίλαος; fl. late 4th century BC) was a Macedonian nobleman, son of Antipater, regent of Macedon, and younger brother of Cassander. He appears to have remained in Pella with his father during Alexander's campaigns.Waldemar Heckel, Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 231. Plutarch records that Perilaus assigned himself to the management of his brother Cassander's military and domestic affairs.Plutarch, Moralia, "On Brotherly Love," 15.
He may have established a dynasty in Derbe at the close of the fourth century BC and be an ancestor of Antipater of Derbe.Ronald Syme, Roman Papers, vol. 1, ed. E. Badian and Anthony Birley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), 131.Stephen Mitchell, The Seleukid Empire 281–222 BC: War Within the Family (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2022), 15.
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