Antipatrea Antipatrea was an ancient Greek town in the region of Epirus. The founder of the town may have been Cassander who named it after his father Antipater at 314 BC. A fortress-settlement of the Greek Dassaretae (or Dexaroi) tribe existed in the area as the 6th century BC on the old border between Illyria and Epirus. It was captured by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Livy (31.27.2) describes Antipatrea as a strongly fortified city in a narrow pass that the Romans sacked and burned.… (More on Antipatrea)