Amyntas

Family: Macedonian · Role: claimant to the throne · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 5

At the beginning of the winter, Sitalces invaded Macedonia, bringing Amyntas, the son of Philip, as his intended king. The Thracian forces took Idomene by assault and gained Gortynia, Atalanta, and other places through their allegiance to Amyntas, who was then with Sitalces.

Relationship record

Life events

• Sitalces invaded Perdiccas and the Chalcidians, bringing Amyntas as his intended king of Macedonia.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 5 · 📍 Macedonia)
  • With: Sitalces Perdiccas
  • “About the same time, at the beginning of this winter, Sitalces, son of Teres, the Odrysian king of Thrace, made an expedition against Perdiccas, son of Alexander, king of Macedonia, and the Chalcidians in the neighbourhood of Thrace; his object being to enforce one promise and fulfil another. On the one hand Perdiccas had made him a promise, when hard pressed at the commencement of the war, upon condition that Sitalces should reconcile the Athenians to him and not attempt to restore his brother and enemy, the pretender Philip, but had not offered to fulfil his engagement; on the other he, Sitalces, on entering into alliance with the Athenians, had agreed to put an end to the Chalcidian war in Thrace. These were the two objects of his invasion. With him he brought Amyntas, the son of Philip, whom he destined for the throne of Macedonia”
• Sitalces’s forces took Idomene by assault and gained several other places through their allegiance to Amyntas.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 6 · 📍 Idomene)
  • With: Sitalces
  • “the Thracian host first invaded what had been once Philip’s government, and took Idomene by assault, Gortynia, Atalanta, and some other places by negotiation, these last coming over for love of Philip’s son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.”

Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 5

• parent: Philip “With him he brought Amyntas, the son of Philip, whom he destined for the throne of Macedonia”

Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 6

• parent: Philip “these last coming over for love of Philip’s son, Amyntas, then with Sitalces.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.