Amyntas II of Macedon

Amyntas Amyntas II and the Small ( † 393 BC), son of Philip, the son of Alexander I., was king of Macedon.

After the assassination Alcetes II and his son Alexander Perdiccas II drove his older brother and heir to the throne legitimate Philip from Macedonia. Philip, Amyntas father, fled to Sitalkes, king of Thrace. In the aftermath, Philip participated in various expeditions against Perdiccas II In the year 429 BC gathered Sitalkes a 150,000 -strong army and marched against Perdiccas, Amyntas to bring to the Macedonian throne. But it remained in the conquest of the north-eastern part of Macedonia, the Amyntas reigned from now on. It was not until 393 BC he succeeded by the murder of Pausanias dominion over the entire kingdom to obtain. But already in the same year Amyntas died by the hand of Derdas II of Elimiotis and Amyntas III. ascended the throne of Macedon.

Because of the distribution of the name Amyntas at this time it comes in the ancient authors often confusion. So Amyntas II is times with Amyntas, son of Archelaus I. with a concubine, and with Amyntas III. , Son of Arrhidaios equated.

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• Aristotle, Politics, 5, 10
• Diodorus Siculus, 14, 89
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2, 95; 2, 100