AMYNTAS I., king of Macedonia (c. 540-498 B.C.), was a
tributary vassal of [Darius Hystaspes]
?. With him the history of
Macedonia may be said to begin. He was the first of its rulers
to have relations with other countries; he entered into an
alliance with the Peisistratidae, and when Hippias was driven
out of
Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus on the
Thermaic Gulf, with the object of turning the
Greek party
feuds to his own advantage (Herodotus v. 17, 94; Justin vii. 2;
Thucydides ii. 100; Pausanias ix. 40).
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