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	List of kings of Macedon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macedon (also known as Macedonia) was an ancient kingdom in the present-day territory of region Macedonia in northern Greece and a small part of the Republic of Macedonia, inhabited by the Ancient Macedonians.
		Perdiccas, Regent of Macedon 323-321 BC Antipater, Regent of Macedon 321-319 BC Polyperchon, Regent of Macedon 319-317 BC Cassander, Regent of Macedon 317-306 BC edit]
		This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome in 148 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kings_of_Macedon (242 words)

	Kings of Macedon
		Macedon was an ancient kingdom in what is now northern Greece, inhabited by a semi-Hellenized people who were seen by the Greeks themselves as close king.
		The Kingdom of Macedon itself soon lost these vast Asian territories, but it retained its hegemony over Greece itself until defeated by the Romans in a series of wars.
		This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/Kings_of_Macedon.html (157 words)

	Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The poet Hesiod described "Macedon" as a son of Zeus and grandson of Deucalion, thus marking the land and its people as outlying tribes of the Greek world in his view.
		After Alexander's death the Macedonian empire fell apart during the wars of the Diadochi; in 276 BC Antigonus Gonatas established the Antigonid dynasty on the throne of a Macedon reduced to roughly its historical boundaries.
		Macedon was divided between the Upper, mountainous regions, and the Lower regions of the Emathian Plain, including the settlements on the Thermaic Gulf.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Macedonia (422 words)

	Alexander the Great - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
		It was said that Olympias honoured the corpse of Pausanias, exposed on a gibbet, by placing a gold crown on it, and that she poured libations there on every anniversary of the murder.
		One of these, Alexander the Lyncestian, swore loyalty to the new king, but his two brothers were immediately put to death; Alexander the Lyncestian survived only until 330 bc when he was executed on suspicion of treason.
		Affairs in Macedon were left in the control of Antipater, a contemporary of Philip, as regent and deputy leader of the Hellenic League.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761564408__1/Alexander_the_Great.html (6429 words)

	Alexander the Great - ninemsn Encarta
		Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedon following the assassination of his father, Philip II, in the summer of 336 bc.
		Macedon was the kingdom located in the region known in ancient times as Macedonia, which was roughly coterminous with the modern Greek province of Macedonia, but extended also into the southern parts of the present Balkan state of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
		Alexander’s absence in the north, however, encouraged further unrest in Greece, and the Athenian politician Demosthenes spread a rumour that the king had been killed on campaign.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564408/Alexander_the_Great.html (1768 words)

	Macedonia
		He and his son and grandson, Perdiccas II and Archelaus, did much to consolidate Macedonian power, but the death of Archelaus (399 BC) was followed by 40 years of disunion and weakness.
		The Second Macedonian War, caused by a combined attack of Antiochus III of Syria and Philip of Macedon on Egypt, broke out in 200 and ended 3 years later in the crushing defeat of Philip's forces by T. Quinctius Flamininus at Cynoscephalae in Thessaly (compare 1 Macc 8:5).
		Secular History: Hogarth, Philip and Alexander of Macedon, London, 1897, and the histories of the Hellenistic period by Holm, Niese, Droysen and Kaerst.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/macedonia.htm (2980 words)

	Ancient coins of Macedon
		Aegae (later Edessa) was the original capital of the kingdom of Macedon, and the burial-place of its kings.
		The early silver coins conjecturally attributed to it recall, in their type of the kneeling he-goat, the story told of Karanos its founder, a brother of Pheidon, king of Argos, who was directed by an oracle ‘to seek an empire by the guidance of goats’.
		After the defeat of Perseus the issue of silver coins in Macedon was prohibited by the Romans, and it was not until ten years later, B.C. 158, that it was again permitted.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/macedon.html (8214 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The sons of Aeropus would believe that, with themselves as Regents and the "grandchild" of Attalus (and thus, Parmenion) on the throne, an alliance could be built between the most powerful factions.
		They may have also felt that, in the event of failure, the sons of Aeropus would be found guilty and be executed, leaving no trail back to them and leaving the throne open for the taking.
		Aeropus’ sons were of the Royal House of Macedon and could have ruled with Persian backing.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=53 (3506 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Pyrrhus by Plutarch
		Thus when Aeropus was dead, he could not bear it with moderation, saying, he indeed had suffered what was common to human nature, but condemning and blaming himself, that by puttings off and delays he had not returned his kindness in time.
		For our debts may be satisfied to the creditor's heirs, but not to have made the acknowledgment of received favours, while they to whom it is due can be sensible of it, afflicts a good and worthy nature.
		For men whose ambition neither seas, nor mountains, nor unpeopled deserts can limit, nor the bounds dividing Europe from Asia confine their vast desires, it would be hard to expect to forbear from injuring one another when they touch and are close together.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/pyrrhus.html (5572 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Macedonian monarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I 'm doing a project about the rise of Macedon to world-power status and i would be interested to read your thoughts and infos on the institution of monarchy in ancient Macedonia.
		Engaging in battle, therefore, they routed the Illyrians with great slaughter, and showed their enemies, that, in the former encounter, it was a king, and not valour, that was wanting to the Makedonians.
		To Aeropus succeeded Amyntas, a prince eminently distinguished, both for his own personal valour, and for the excellent abilities of his son Alexander, who had from nature such remarkable talents of every kind,that he contended for the prize in various species of exercises at the Olympic games.
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	Ancient Macedonia
		Herodotus continues "From the Perdiccas of whom we have here spoken, Alexander was descended in the following way Alexander was the son of Amyntas, Amyntas of Alcetas; the father of Alcetas was Aeropus; of Aeropus, Philip; of Philip, Argaeus; of Argaeus, Perdiccas, the first sovereign".
		Borza, in the beginning of chapter 5, in his book, "In the Shadow of Olympus, The Emergence of Macedon" describes the Macedonian kingdom during the reign of Amyntas I as weak, thinly populated, and surviving in the absence of external threat.
		Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus, The Emergence of Macedon.
	www.mymacedonia.net /articles/earlykingdom.htm (7503 words)

	Demetrius
		One robe in particular, a most superb piece of work, was long in the loom in preparation for him, in which was to be wrought the representation of the universe and the celestial bodies.
		The place of virtue was given by him to that which, had he not been as ignorant as he was powerful, he would have known to be vice, and honour by his act was associated with crime.
		Demetrius, therefore, thought it his business to keep them as far away as he could from Lysimachus, who was their own countryman, and for Alexander's sake kindly looked upon by many; they would be ready to fight with Pyrrhus, a new comer and a foreigner, whom they could hardly prefer to himself.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Plutarch/demet.html (12270 words)

	Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
		Kingdom of the Antigonids in Macedon 323-168 BCE
		Antigonus I Monophthalmus 306-301- in 301 Antigonus lost at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia and died in combat there.
		Perseus of Macedon, son of Philip V 179-168
	www.juyayay.com /outline/greece (5307 words)

	Notes as of 2/28/95
		a) Despite Alexander's belief that the Persians were responsible for his father's murder, the first to be executed (besides Pausanias, of course) were two sons of the former king of Lyncestis, Aeropus, Arrhabaeus and Heromenes, on a charge of complicity.
		2.14.5) was that Darius had promised him the throne of Macedon in return for murdering Alexander.
		It all worked--with the likelier candidates dead and Olympias left behind as Queen Mother to monitor the court at Pella while her son was on campaign, Alexander stayed securely on the throne of Macedon until his death.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/190228.html (1151 words)

	Plutarch: Life of Demetrius (1) - translation
		For he was ingenious in the speculative part of mechanics; and he did not, like other princes, apply his taste and knowledge of those arts to the purposes of diversion, or to pursuits of no utility, such as playing on the flute, painting, or turning.
		Aeropus, king of Macedon, spent his hours of leisure in making little tables and lamps.
		Attalus, surnamed Philometor, amused himself with planting poisonous herbs, not only henbane and hellebore, but hemlock, aconite, and dorycnium.
	www.attalus.org /old/demetrius1.html (8053 words)

	Macedonian Nation Forum
		Macedonia (or Macedon) was an ancient, somewhat backward kingdom in northen Greece.
		Its emergence as a Hellenic power was due to a resourceful king, Philip II (359-336), whose career has been unjustly overshadowed by the deeds of his son, Alexander the Great".
		Three brothers of the lineage of Temenus came as banished men from Argos to Illyria, Gauanes and Aeropus and Perdiccas; and from Illyria they crossed over into the highlands of Macedonia till they came to the town Lebaea."
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	ALBANIA-SCOPJE-BULGARIA THE FORGERS OF HISTORY AND MACEDONIA - www.ezboard.com
		Alexander the Great speaks in front of the Macedones of his army: "The Macedonians are going to judge your case," he said.
		It is obvious that a war between the ancient Greek states was a very common phenomenon so a battle between Macedon and Athens can not be used as proof that the Macedonians were not Greek.
		The Greek origin of the Macedonians is proven by the vast majority of the ancient historians.
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