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Amyntas II

Amyntas II (or III), son of Arrhidaeus[?], great-grandson of Alexander I, king of Macedon from 393 (or 389) to 369 BC.

He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed the death of Archelaus, the patron of art and literature, and showed the same taste for Greek culture and its representatives. But he had many enemies at home; in 383 he was driven out by the Illyrians, but in the following year, with the aid of the Thessalians[?], he recovered his kingdom.

He concluded a treaty with the Spartans, who assisted him to reduce Olynthus[?] (379). He also entered into a league with Jason of Pherae[?], and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens.

By his wife, Eurydice, he had three sons, the youngest of whom was the famous Philip of Macedon.

Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia.



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