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king of ancient Macedonia. He was the son of Amyntas III and his second wife, Gygaea. Philip executed Archelaus shortly after he became king in 359 BC,...

son of Amyntas. Through Gygaea, Amyntas had three more sons: Archelaus, Arrhidaeus, and Menelaus. Unlike Eurydice's children, none of Gygaea's sons ascended...

413–399 BC), king of Macedon Archelaus (son of Amyntas III) (d. 359 BC), half-brother of Philip II of Macedonia Archelaus (son of Androcles) (fl. 321...

Hammond, is that Archelaus married his younger daughter to Amyntas or Amyntas' son in order to stave off a future power struggle with the line of Menelaus. The...

half-brother of Philip II, king of ancient Macedonia. He was the son of Amyntas III and Gygaea, Amyntas' second wife, and had two brothers, Archelaus and Arrhidaeus...

Hammond, is that Archelaus married his younger daughter to Amyntas or Amyntas' son in order to stave off a future power struggle with the line of Menelaus. The...

of Aloros (r. 368 – 365 BC) Amyntas Arrhidaeus (9) Amyntas III (r. 393/2 – 370 BC) From whom Philip II and Alexander III is descended. Philip Amyntas...

Amyntas II, who was married to the youngest daughter of Archelaus I. Very little is known about this turbulent period; it came to an end when Amyntas III...

sister named Eurynoe. Amyntas later married another woman, Gygaea, with whom he had three sons, Philip's half-brothers Archelaus, Arrhidaeus, and Menelaus...

of Pythodorida, Queen regnant of Pontus. Archelaus was a Cappadocian Greek nobleman. His full name was Archelaus Sisines. He was the first-born son and...

succeeded Alexander I. Menelaus, father of Amyntas II Philip Amyntas, whose son Arrhidaeus was the father of Amyntas III. Alcetas Stratonice, married by her...

Argaeus II was a son of Archelaus I (ruled 413–399 BC). With the assistance of the Illyrians, Argaeus II expelled King Amyntas III from his dominions...

Eurydice married Amyntas III, king of Macedon; the youngest of their sons was Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. The origin of the name Sirras...

son of Alexander I. He had four brothers: Alcetas, Amyntas, Menelaus, and Philip. Menelaus was the father of the future king Amyntas II while Amyntas'...

beginning of Archelaus' reign in 413 BC, British historian Nicholas Hammond estimated that the dynasty began around 650 BC. Amyntas I and his son Alexander...

death of king Archelaus, between Orestes, Aeropus II, Amyntas II and Pausanias Macedonian war of succession (393–392 BCE), after the death of king Pausanias...

Orestes (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης, Oréstēs), was king of Macedonia and son of Archelaus I He reigned from 400/399 to 398/7 BC, when his guardian (epitropos)...

of the Macedonian nobility. As king, he took the name Archelaus. Aeropus had a son named Pausanias, but was succeeded instead by Amyntas II, son of his...

have been a great-grandson of Amyntas I of Macedon, making him a member of the Argead royal house and a distant relative of Alexander the Great, who was...

Seleucus III Soter, called Seleucus Ceraunus (Greek: Σέλευκος Γ΄ ὁ Σωτήρ, ὁ Κεραυνός; c. 243 BC – April/June 223 BC, ruled December 225 – April/June 223...