AMYNTAS II. (or III.), son of Arrhidaeus, great-grandson
of Alexander I., king of Macedonia from 393 (or 389) to 369
B.C. 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.
Diodorus xiv. 89, xv. 19, 60; Xenophon, Hellenica, v. 2; Justin vii. 4.
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