Amyntas IV of Macedon

Amyntas IV ( Greek: Ἀμύντας; † 336 BC) was a king of Macedon from the House of Argeaden.

Amyntas was the son of King Perdiccas III. and only three years old when this 359 BC fell in battle against the Illyrians. Therefore took over his uncle, Philip II, for the time being the regency of the country, to this 356 BC the throne completely usurped. Amyntas had been treated by his uncle as a full member of the royal family. Among other things, him several sons of the nobility as Youth Fellowship ( syntrophoi ) were put aside, one of them was Philotas. Furthermore, Amyntas was Kynane, a daughter of Philip II, married.

Despite the loss of the rule royal rank of Amyntas, especially in the Greek world seems to have been more widely acknowledged, probably to the reign of Philip II to discredit illegitimate as. A ceremony in his favor by the Boeotian Lebadeia shows him as king, the city Oropus awarded him an honorary citizen ( proxeny ). In 336 BC Philip II was assassinated, whereupon his son Alexander the Great took over the reign as king. Amyntas seems to have planned a coup attempt, when Alexander had to assert his dominance in his first year of reign. Anyway, Amyntas was executed by him.

Amyntas IV had from his marriage with Kynane a daughter, Adea / Eurydice, the later with the King Philip III. Arrhidaios was married.

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• Diodorus Siculus, 16, 2
• Junianus Justin, 7, 5; 12, 6
• Inscriptiones Graecae VII 3055 and 4250