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  List of ancient Greeks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Amyntas III of Macedon - King of Macedon
Berenice IV of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
Ptolemy IV of Egypt - Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt
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 Amyntas IV of Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Amyntas IV was titular king of Macedonia in 359 BC and member of Argead dynasty.
He was son of king Perdiccas III of Macedon.
Philip II of Macedon, Perdiccas' brother, became his tutor and regent.
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 Macedon
Macedon was made up of the gathering of several tribes under the leadership of a single king who kept his authority with the help of his army, and its borders didn't change much during the two centuries we are dealing with until the times of Philip and Alexander the Great.
One of Perdiccas' successors, Amyntas I established good relations with the Athens of Pisistratus, but, under his reign, Macedon was subjected to Persia (Herodotus, Histories, V, 17-21, gives an embellished version of the relations between Amyntas and Darius favoring the Macedonian).
Amyntas' son, Alexander I, fought in the army of Xerxes with a Macedonian contingent during the Persian wars.
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 the ghenos ARGEADI
Perdiccas I led the the migration of the tribes of Macedon.
During the reign of Amyntas I (6th century BC) Macedonian kingdom was extended eastward beyond the Axiós River to dominate the neighbouring Thracian tribes.
Both kings were murdered, Arrhidaeus in 317 and Alexander IV in 309 and Alexander IV and his mother Roxane were assassinated by Cassander who then usurped the throne of Macedonia.
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 Learn more about Philip II of Macedon in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Philip II (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (359 BC - 336 BC) Olympionike, was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
Coin with likeness of Philip II Born in Pella in 382 BC, he was King Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice's youngest son, but the deaths of his elder brothers Kings Alexander II of Macedon and Perdiccas III of Macedon allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC.
He was originally appointed as Regent till his infant nephew King Amyntas IV of Macedon, Perdiccas' son, reached adulthood, but soon he managed to make himself king.
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 Philip II of Macedon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in (additional info and facts about Pella) Pella in 382 BC, he was the youngest son of King (additional info and facts about Amyntas III of Macedon) Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice.
The deaths of his elder brothers, Kings (additional info and facts about Alexander II of Macedon) Alexander II of Macedon and (additional info and facts about Perdiccas III of Macedon) Perdiccas III of Macedon, allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC.
Originally appointed Regent for his infant nephew (additional info and facts about Amyntas IV of Macedon) Amyntas IV of Macedon (359 BC) the son of Perdiccas III, Philip managed to take the kingdom for himself that same year.
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 PHILIP II OF MACEDON FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Philip II of Macedon (382_BC–336_BC; Greek: ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ) was the King_of_Macedon from 359_BC until his death.
Born in Pella, Philip was the youngest son of King Amyntas III and Eurydice.
Originally appointed regent for his infant nephew Amyntas IV, who was the son of Perdiccas III, Philip managed to take the kingdom for himself that same year.
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 Chemistry - Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (Macedonia) (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (ruled 359 BC - 336 BC), was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
Born in Pella in 382 BC, he was the youngest son of King Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice.
Originally appointed Regent for his infant nephew Amyntas IV of Macedon (359 BC) the son of Perdiccas III, Philip managed to take the kingdom for himself that same year.
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 ARISTOPHANES - LoveToKnow Article on ARISTOPHANES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At the age of iv :ty he was appointed chief librarian of the museum.
Aristotle from the first profited by having a father who, being Lysician to Amyntas II., king of Macedon, and one of the ~clepiads who, according to Galen., practised their Sons in.
After the tragic death of ermias, he retired for a time to Mitylene, and in 343342 was mmoned to Macedon by Philip to teach Alexander, who was en a boy of thirteen.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Alexander the Great
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.
Amyntas, the son of Philip’s elder brother and predecessor as king, Perdiccas III, was also soon disposed of.
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.
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 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’.
Amyntas III, however, found himself compelled to hand over the maritime district of Macedon to the Olynthians, and it is to this interval that the bronze coins of Pydna, identical in type with those of Amyntas, belong.
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 Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
Amyntas III was the great grandson of Alexander I. The shakeup of the Macedonian kingdom due to the early and unexpected departure of Archelaus, was a signal for Macedonia's enemies to make their move.
Amyntas was lucky this time but his enemies were too numerous to allow chance to guide his fate so he worked hard to establish an alliance with his immediate neighbours to the southeast, the Chalcidic cities.
Eurydice was the wife of Amyntas III from an arranged marriage.
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 Macedon
The Hellenic cities to the south consider the Macedones to be, at best, semi barbarians, but they are of the highest value as they stand, like a wall between the savage tribes, bent upon pillage, to the north and the rich cities to the south.
Macedon is a bulwark upon which the rest of Hellas depends for protection.
The Macedones are a hunting people; it is a part of their ancient culture.
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 Macedonia FAQ: A Review of R. M. Errington's A History Of Macedonia
Philip had built Macedon into a great power, had established the security of the state; Alexander broke with tradition and showed himself insensitive in many ways both to the his country and its institutions (also the ``old guard'') and to the Greeks.
IV: ``The Age of the Successors'' (130-61) deals naturally with those who would rule Macedon: Kassandros and his sons, Demetrios, Pyrrhos and Lysimachos.
Kassandros reverts to a view of Macedon more consistent with that of Philip II: he ``cultivated the memory of Philip'' and ``deliberately fanned an ideological hatred of Alexander III and his family'' (132).
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 Philip_2 of Macedon
It is for this reason that I do not agree with Macedonian historians who suggest that he was initially serving as vizier for Amyntas IV.15 The historian Justin is the only source for this regency and he is usually unreliable or contradictory.
However, the fact that the murderrer was killed on the spot does nothing for the hypothesis due to the fact that it was standard judicial practice in Macedon.
Borza, Eugene N. In the Shadow of Olympus, The Emergence of Macedon.
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 History of Ancient Sparta
In the end of the 4th century BC, Sparta build a wall for the first time in her history, which was enclosing its four central villages and Acropolis.
In 265 BC again, having formed an alliance with Athens, Achaea and Elis and some Arcadian cities, gave battle against Macedon but lost it and in his retreat was killed (Chremonidean war).
He proposed all debts to be cancelled, and to redistribute all land, in parts of 4500 citizens and 15000 Perioikoi.
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 Macedonia (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
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.
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 Man and His Gods
The aim of the Greek artist was that the end product should be beautiful: nothing else mattered, and if beauty was lacking there was nothing to compensate.
Son of the physician to Amyntas II, King of Macedon, and himself experienced in the odor of disease, suffering and death, Aristotle esteemed ugly brute facts as highly as Plato esteemed the artistic conception of perfection.
At the age of forty-one he had been employed by King Philip of Macedon to act as tutor to Alexander, his passionate and epileptic son.
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 WILLIAM STEVEN GREENWALT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
"The Iconographical Significance of Amyntas III’s Mounted Hunter Stater," Archaia Makedonia, 5 (1992), 95-104.
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography, by Peter Green, in The History Teacher 26 (1992), 530-531.
In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, by Eugene Borza, in Classical Philology 87 (1992), 169-173.
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 Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
Alexander IV's "official" reign, and the fiction of a unified empire, was maintained for five more years, until Antigonus, Demetrius, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Cassander (the Diadochi, "Successors") had all proclaimed themselves Kings in their own right.
With the removal of "the Kings," Philip III and Alexander IV, to Macedon (321), that Kingdom, replacing Alexander's Babylon, becomes the de jure capital, again, of the Macedonian Empire.
Seleucus left India to the growing power of the Mauryas, but was about to add Thrace to his kingdom when, stepping out of the boat in Europe, he was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus, whom he had taken in as a refugee.
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 The Great PIPER-L Landgrab: Macedonian Empire Developer's Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Perdiccasí infant son, Amyntas IV, nominally becomes king, with Philip regent.
The subsequent trials before the Macedonian Assembly acquit Alexander and Amyntas; however the Lyncestids (a collateral royal line) are executed [1].
Alexander sails his fleet into the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab, and is greeted ceremoniously by his newly acceded brother-in-law, Artaxerxes IV (r.
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 The Rise of Macedon and the Empire of Alexander the Great 359-323 B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Son of Philip II of Macedon — Many stories surrounded the birth of Alexander.
Amyntas, son of King Perdiccas III — Philip’s nephew
As supreme commander of all Greece, I invaded Asia because I wished to punish Persia for this act — an act which must be laid wholly to your charge….
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 Macedonian Royal line
This line continued through Alexander IV (son of Alexander the Great)
Pushing aside Amyntas, son of Perdiccas III, Philip’s late brother.
Body of the king had to be protected by citizens under arms – 8 somatophylakes
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 Characters of "The Everlasting King"
All further references to Alexander refer to him unless his son, Alexander IV, is specified.
Amyntas¨ -Son of Philip II's elder brother, King Perdikkas.
Antipatros -Regent of Macedon during Alexander's years in Asia, and at the time of his death.
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 Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography
Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedon Biography
He was born in Pella, the capital of the ancient Macedonian kingdom, as the youngest son of king Amyntas III.
After his fathers death, Macedonia slowly disintegrated as his elder brothers and future kings Alexander II and Perdiccas III, unsuccessfully fought against the continuous attacks of the neighboring Thracians, Illyrians, and Greeks.
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 Other 359 BC - Find it on Coins-n-More.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
World History 400-300 BC 359 BC Philip II Regent Of Macedonia- Philip II became Regent of Macedonia in 359 BC He reorganized the army and made it one of the strongest in Greece.
his infant nephew Amyntas IV of Macedon (359 BC) the son of Perdiccas III, …
Philip II of Macedon… among modern Macedonia and Greece and BulgariaMacedon (359 BC –; 336 BC) Olympionike,III of Macedon allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC.
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 Articles - Argead dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Supposedly descended from Heracles, the family's greatest members were Philip II of Macedonia who united the Greeks and Alexander the Great who defeated the Persian Empire and created the Empire of Alexander.
The Argead line ended during the wars of the Diadochi when Alexander IV of Macedon and his mother Roxana were murdered.
Alexander IV of Macedon 323-309 BC, only titular king
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 Funeral Games
Regent of Macedon during Alexander's years in Asia, and at the time of his death.
Son of Antipatros the Regent of Macedon, younger brother of Kassandros; formerly Alexander's cupbearer.
Daughter of Philip II by an Illyrian princess, from whom she learned the skills of war.
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B. Dubious Record in Persian Wars (Kings Amyntas and Alexander I).
Philip II of Macedon and Davies' Opportunists: A. Dionysius I of Syracuse (405-367 BC) as Prototype.
The Military Career of Philip II of Macedon: A. Hostage at Thebes (368-365) and Exposure to Epaminondas' Military Reforms.
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E. outlines the development of Alexander's ``personal kingship'', the disillusionment of the Macedonian soldiery and the perilous course of orientalism (``it seems clear that Alexander's intention was to integrate Macedonia into his evolving multiracial empire'' [114]).
The Emergence of Macedon.* Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Rev. by W. Heckel Borza's avowed purpose is ``to offer an accessible historical essay to anyone interested in the emergence of Macedon'' (xii).
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