Perdiccas

Family: Macedonian · Role: first obtained the kingdom · First appears: Book 5 · §20–28

Book 5 · §20–28

with Alexander (son of Amyntas) (Alexander is identified in context as one of the descendants of Perdiccas.) “And that these descendants of Perdiccas are Hellenes, as they themselves say, I happen to know myself, and not only so, but I will prove in the succeeding history that they are Hellenes.”

siblings with Gauanes “From Argos there fled to the Illyrians three brothers of the descendents of Temenos, Gauanes, Aëropos, and Perdiccas;”
siblings with Aëropos “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: Argaios “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.”
with Alexander (son of Amyntas) (Perdiccas was Alexander's seventh ancestor.) “Now of this Alexander the seventh ancestor was that Perdiccas”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.