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+---
+language:
+  - en
+license: cc-by-nc-4.0
+tags:
+  - text-generation
+  - history
+  - ancient-greece
+  - voice-model
+  - ollama
+  - elect
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
+---
+
+# ipsus: Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382–301 BC)
+
+> **PLAUSIBLE ANTIGONUS, a constructed voice-model.** Antigonus the One-Eyed left no
+> first-person text and barely two dozen reported sayings survive. This model is trained
+> first on those real sayings, then on a larger plausible voice extrapolated from the
+> narrative record of his career. It is honest about the difference. Do not treat its
+> outputs as historical quotations.
+
+Part of the **Elect** voice-model series: historical figures as runnable instruments.
+
+## What this is
+
+A fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct that targets the register of Antigonus I Monophthalmus,
+the most formidable of Alexander's successors and the one who came closest to reuniting
+the empire under a single crown before the coalition of the other successors brought him
+down at Ipsus when he was past eighty. The register is blunt, sardonic, soldierly. He
+reasons from force, position, and the brute arithmetic of who holds which army, which
+treasury, which province.
+
+The contrast with the other Elect voices is deliberate. Where Philip (the `chaeronea`
+model) is the patient architect who reasons from interest, Antigonus is the inheritor
+playing for the whole table: the all-or-nothing consolidator who held more of Alexander's
+conquests in one hand than any man living and meant to hold the rest. He measures himself
+against Alexander without grandiosity, laughs at the flatterers who would call him a god,
+and is rough about his own age and his lost eye.
+
+He is **not** his grandson Antigonus Gonatas. He does not call kingship a glorious
+servitude, and he does not pose as a Stoic philosopher-king. He simply means to hold the
+empire, and he reckons every question as a ledger of force and interest.
+
+## The honest thinness
+
+Antigonus has the thinnest source on the Elect roster. He left no first-person text, and
+only about twenty-one reported sayings survive. The model is built in two layers, and the
+distinction is the whole point: here the constructed layer is the larger of the two, a
+stronger honesty bar than the `chaeronea` model required.
+
+**T1, real reported speech (the small sharp anchor, ~21 unique sayings).** Plutarch,
+*Sayings of Kings and Commanders* (the "Antigonus" cluster); Plutarch, *Eumenes* 15;
+Plutarch, *Demetrius* 19, 28, 29. The "I but glean after him" line, the ball-players in
+armor, the death at Ipsus. All pre-1929 public-domain translations.
+
+**T2, a constructed plausible Antigonus (the primary layer here, ~130 chunks).** A
+separate pass extrapolates his voice from the narrative record of his career: Diodorus
+Siculus Books 18 to 20 (the Perdiccas war, the destruction of Eumenes, the betrayal by the
+Silver Shields, the satrapal purge, the coalition that formed against him), with Plutarch's
+*Eumenes* and *Demetrius* and Justin 13 to 15 for additional episodes. It is generated in
+persona by an off-platform model, then register-checked. This layer is constructed, not
+recorded, and is labelled as such everywhere this model appears.
+
+A load-bearing correctness step guards against the most-quoted false attribution: "kingship
+is a glorious servitude" belongs to Antigonus II Gonatas, the grandson, not to this figure.
+The build blocks Gonatas material by saying-fragment and by era, with a verification probe,
+so the model speaks as Antigonus I and not as his grandson.
+
+This is the closest approximation of Antigonus's register the record permits, labelled
+honestly. It is not pretending to be his ghost.
+
+## Example exchanges
+
+Real outputs from this model:
+
+> **A coalition of Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Cassander, and Seleucus has formed against you. How do you answer it?**
+> We march on them.
+
+> **The cities vote you divine honors and the poets call you Son of the Sun. What do you make of this?**
+> Son of a Macedonian whore, I answer to the trumpet. Let them sing their songs; it's me who marches out in the morning, not them.
+
+> **You are past eighty and still take the field. Should you not rest and leave the war to Demetrius?**
+> You would not keep a wolf chained just because he was old.
+
+> **Is it kingship that you want, or the title?**
+> I want Asia. The same answer I gave at Ipsus.
+
+> **You burned Antigenes alive but buried Eumenes with honor. Is that not a contradiction?**
+> Eumenes was worth more dead than alive; Antigenes too hot to handle while he lived.
+
+## Running it
+
+Q5_K_M GGUF, served with Ollama. Pair it with the elicitation frame (a "visitor asks
+Antigonus the One-Eyed" template); see the `Modelfile` in the project repo. Plain chat
+templates mis-wrap the completion register and produce rambling, so the completion frame
+keeps it tight.
+
+## Intended uses
+
+- The Elect console (Ollama serve plus chat)
+- Historical dialogue and character embodiment
+- Research into the rhetoric of the Wars of the Diadochi
+
+## Limitations
+
+This is a plausible reconstruction, not a transcript. Antigonus's surviving direct speech is
+the thinnest in the series (~21 sayings), and the T2 layer extrapolates from secondary
+sources. Because the corpus is so thin and the constructed layer so large, treat every
+output as a plausible Antigonus, never as a historical quotation. The model invents freely:
+names, dates, sources, events.
+
+## License
+
+CC-BY-NC-4.0. The model weights (GGUF) are released publicly under this license and are
+downloadable from this repository. The training corpus is not bundled: the T1 sources are
+public domain and rebuildable from the citations above, and the constructed T2 layer is
+generated text that is not redistributed.