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Bubares (Boubares), the son of Megabazus, a Persian, was sent into Macedonia to make inquiries after the missing Persian envoys, whom Alexander, the son of Amyntas I., had caused to be murdered at his father's court, about B. C. 507. Alexander induced Bubares to pass the matter over in silence, by giving him great presents and also his sister Gygaea in marriage. By this Gygaea Bubares had a son, who was called Amyntas after his grandfather. (Herod. v. 21, viii. 136.)
In conjunction with Artachaees, Bubares superintended the construction of the canal which Xerxes made across the isthmus of Athos. (Herod. vii. 22.)
Gygaea (Gugaie), daughter of Amyntas and sister of Alexander I. of Macedonia, was given by her brother in marriage to Bubares, in order to hush up the inquiry which the latter had been sent by Dareius Hystaspis to institute into the fate of the Persian envoys, whom Alexander had caused to be murdered. Herodotus mentions a son of Bubares and Gygaea, called Amyntas after his grandfather. (Herod. v. 21, viii. 136; Just. vii. 3.)
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Perdiccas (Perdikkas), was, according to Herodotus, the founder of the Macedonian
monarchy, though Justin, Diodorus, and the later chronographers, Dexippus and
Eusebius, represent Caranus as the first king of Macedonia,
and make Perdiccas only the fourth. Thucydides, however, seems to follow the same
version of the history with Herodotus, since he reckons only eight kings before
Archelaus (Thuc. ii. 100. See also Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 221; MΌller's Dorians,
App. i.15). According to Herodotus, Perdiccas and his two brothers, Gauanes and
Aeopus, were Argives of the
race of Temenus, who fled from their native country to Illyria,
and from thence into the upper part of Macedonia,
where they at first served the king of the country as herdsmlen, but were afterwards
dismissed from his service, and settled near Mount
Bermius, from whence, he adds, they subdued the rest of Macedonia
(Herod. viii. 37, 138). It is clear, however, that the dominions of Perdiccas
and his immediate successors, comprised but a very small part of the country subsequently
known under that name (See Thuc. ii. 99). According to Eusebius (ed. Arm. p. 152,
153), Perdiccas reigned forty-eight years, but this period is, doubtless, a purely
fictitious one. He was succeeded by his son Argaeus (Herod. viii. 139). Front
a fragment of Diodorus (Exc. Vat. p. 4), it would appear that Perdiccas was regarded
as the founder of Aegae or Edessa,
the capital of the early Macedonian monarchs.
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King of Macedonia, son of Perdiccas I.
Argaeus (Argaios), king of Macedonia was the son and successor of Perdiccas I.,
who according to Herodotus and Thucydides, was the founder of the dynasty. Thirty-four
years are given as the length of his reign by Dexippus (ap. Syncell. p. 494, Dind.),
but apparently without any authority (Herod. viii. 139; Justin, vii. 2).
There was a pretender to the Macedonian crown of this name, who, with
the assistance of the Illyrians, expelled Amyntas II. from his dominions (B. C.
393), and kept possession of the throne for two years. Amyntas then, with the
aid of the Thessalians, succeeded in expelling Argaeus and recovering at least
a part of his dominions. It is probably the same Argaeus who in B. C. 359 again
appears as a pretender to the throne. He had induced the Athenians to support
his pretensions, but Philip, who had just succeeded to the regency of the kingdom,
by his intrigues and promises induced them to remain inactive. Argaeus upon this
collected a body of mercenaries, and being accompanied by some Macedonian exiles
and some Athenian troops, who were permitted by their general, Manlias, to join
him, he made an attempt upon Aegae, but was repulsed. On his retreat to Methone,
he was intercepted by Philip, and defeated. What became of him we are not informed
(Diod. xiv. 92, xvi. 2, 3; Dem. c. Aristocr.).
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Philippus I., son of Argaeus, was the third king, according
to Herodotus and Thucydides, who, not reckoning Caranus and his two immediate
successors (Coenus and Thurimas or Turimmas), look upon Perdiccas I. as the founder
of the monarchy. Philip left a son, named Aeropus, who succeeded him.
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588 - 568
King of Macedonia, the son of Philip I., the great-grandson of Perdiccas, the first king, and the father of Alcetas. (Herod. iii. 139)
568 - 540
Alcetas (Alketas), the eighth king of Macedonia, counting from Caranus, and the fifth, counting from Perdiccas, reigned, according to Eusebius, twenty-nine years. He was the father of Amyntas I., who reigned in the latter part of the sixth century B. C. (Herod. viii. 139.)
Amyntas I. A king of Macedonia, who reigned from about B.C. 540 to 500, and was succeeded by his son Alexander I.
Amyntas (Amuntas) I., king of Macedonia, son of Alcetas, and fifth in descent
from Perdiccas, the founder of the dynasty (Herod. viii. 139 ; comp. Thuc. ii.
100; Just. vii. 1, xxxiii. 2 ; Paus. ix. 40).
It was under him that Macedonia became tributary to the Persians.
Megabazus, whom Darius on his return from his Scythian expedition had left at
the head of 80,000 men in Europe (Herod. iv. 143), sent after the conquest of
Paeonia to require earth and water of Amyntas, who immediately complied with his
demand. The Persian envoys on this occasion behaved with much insolence at the
banquet to which Amyntas invited them, and were murdered by his son Alexander.
After this we find nothing recorded of Amyntas, except his offer to the Pisistratidae
of Anthemus in Chalcidice, when Hippias had just been disappointed in his hope
of a restoration to Athens by the power of the Spartan confederac. (Herod. v.
94). Amyntas died about 498 B. C. leaving the kingdom to Alexander. Herodotus
(viii. 136) speaks of a soil of Bubares and Gygaea, called Amyntas after his grandfather.
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Alexander I the Philhellene (?-circa 442 BC) succeeded Amyntas I in the Macedonian throne. Though subjected to the Persians, he assisted the southern Greeks in the Persian Wars; for this he received from the Athenians the honours of "citizenship and exemption" (from taxes). After the Persians were put to rout, Alexander extended his realm as far as the Strymon, and contributed to his kingdom's cultural and economic development as well as its general modernization. He took part in the Olympic Games (perhaps in 496 BC) in the 'stadion' race. Poets such as Pindar, Bacchylides and Simonides lived at his court.
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Alexander I. (Alexandros), the tenth king of Macedonia, was the son of Amyntas
I. When Megabazus sent to Macedonia, about B. C. 507, to demand earth and water,
as a token of submission to Darius, Amyntas was still reigning. At a banquet given
to the Persian envoys, the latter demanded the presence of the ladies of the court,
and Amyntas, through fear of his guests, ordered them to attend. But when the
Persians proceeded to offer indignities to them, Alexander caused them to retire,
under pretence of arraying them more beautifully, and introduced in their stead
some Macedonian youths, dressed in female attire, who slew the Persians. As the
Persians did not return, Megabazus sent Bubares with some troops into Macedonia;
but Alexander escaped the danger by giving his sister Gygaea in marriage to the
Persian general. According to Justin, Alexander succeeded his father in the kingdom
soon after these events (Herod. v. 17-21, viii. 136 ; Justin, vii. 2-4). In B.
C. 492, Macedonia was obliged to submit to the Persian general Mardonius (Herod.
vi. 44); and in Xerxes' invasion of Greece (B. C. 480), Alexander accompanied
the Persian army. He gained the confidence of Mardonius, and was sent by him to
Athens after the battle of Salamis, to propose peace to the Athenians, which he
strongly recommended, under the conviction that it was impossible to contend with
the Persians. He was unsuccessful in his mission; but though he continued in the
Persian army, he was always secretly inclined to the cause of the Greeks, and
informed them the night before the battle of Plataeae of the intention of Mardonius
to fight on the following day (viii. 136, 140-143, ix. 44, 45). He was alive in
B. C. 463, when Cimon recovered Thasos (Plut. Cim. 14). He was succeeded by Perdiccas
II.
Alexander was the first member of the royal family of Macedonia, who
presented himself as a competitor at the Olympic games, and was admitted to them
after proving his Greek descent (Herod. v. 22; Justin, vii. 2). In his reign Macedonia
received a considerable accession of territor. (Thuc. ii. 99).
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435 - 413
Perdiccas II. The son and successor of Alexander I. of Macedonia, reigning
from B.C. 454 to 413. Shortly before the Peloponnesian War, Perdiccas was at war
with the Athenians, who sent a force to support his brother Philip, and Derdas,
a Macedonian chieftain, against the king, while the latter espoused the cause
of Potidaea, which had shaken off the Athenian yoke, B.C. 432. In the following
year peace was concluded between Perdiccas and the Athenians, but it did not last
long, and he was during the greater part of his reign on hostile terms with the
Athenians. In B.C. 429 his dominions were invaded by Sitalces, king of the powerful
Thracian tribe of the Odrysians, but the enemy was compelled, by want of provisions,
to return home. It was in great part at his instigation that Brasidas in B.C.
424 set out on his celebrated expedition to Macedonia and Thrace. In the following
year (B.C. 423), however, a misunderstanding arose between him and Brasidas; in
consequence of which he abandoned the Spartan alliance, and concluded peace with
Athens. Subsequently we find him at one time in alliance with the Spartans and
at another time with the Athenians; and it is evident that he joined one or other
of the belligerent parties according to the dictates of his own interest at the
moment.
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