Herodotus' Histories

Aëropos

Family: Macedonian · Role: brother of Perdiccas; ancestor of Alexander · First appears: Book 8 · §137–142

Book 8 · §137–142

  • siblings with Gauanes “From Argos there fled to the Illyrians three brothers of the descendents of Temenos, Gauanes, Aëropos, and Perdiccas;”
  • siblings with Perdiccas “From Argos there fled to the Illyrians three brothers of the descendents of Temenos, Gauanes, Aëropos, and Perdiccas;”
  • with Temenos (Temenos is their ancestor.) “From Argos there fled to the Illyrians three brothers of the descendents of Temenos, Gauanes, Aëropos, and Perdiccas;”
  • child: Alketes “Alexander was the son of Amyntas, Amyntas was the son of Alketes, the father of Alketes was Aëropos, of him Philip, of Philip Argaios, and of this last the father was Perdiccas, who first obtained the kingdom.”
  • child: Philip “the father of Alketes was Aëropos, of him Philip”

Book 9 · §26–30

  • child: Echemos “Echemos the son of Aëropos, the son of Phegeus, who was our commander and king”
  • parent: Phegeus “Echemos the son of Aëropos, the son of Phegeus, who was our commander and king”

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