Amyntas I

Amyntas I, king of Macedonia (c. 540-498 B.C.), was a tributary vassal of Darius Hystaspes[?] of Persia. With him the history of Macedonia may be said to begin. He was the first of its rulers to have relations with other countries; he entered into an alliance with the Peisistratidae[?] of Athens, and when Hippias was driven out of Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus[?] on the Thermaic Gulf[?], with the object of turning the Greek party feuds to his own advantage

Ancient sources: (Herodotus v. 17, 94; Justin vii. 2; Thucydides ii. 100; Pausanias ix. 40).

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