Perdiccas I of Macedon

Perdiccas (Greek Περδίκκας ) was according to tradition, the Greek historian Herodotus, a descendant of Temenos of Argos and the founder of the Macedonian royal house and of the Macedonian Empire. The starting point was the area of ​​the later residence Aegae for him. He reigned from about 650 BC to 620 BC.

According to legend, Perdiccas allegedly escaped with his two brothers and Gauanes Aeropos from Argos to Illyria. So they came to Lebaia to the court of the king of Macedon. This put them in his service as shepherds. The king was very poor, so the king's wife for all prepared food. She noticed that the bread that she baked for Perdiccas, twice as big as all the others. When she reported this to her husband he asked the brothers to leave his farm. Before they left, they went into the king's house and demanded their pay. The king answered, a ray of sunlight fell through the flue on the earthen floor, was her reward. Perdiccas cut with a knife beam -shaped piece out of the ground. Then they left the country and settled in the gardens of Midas. From here, conquered the whole of Macedonia Perdiccas.

Perdiccas instructed his son Argaios to bury him after his death in Aegae. And they said, as long as the kings were buried in this place, even the office of the king would remain in the family. Since Alexander the Great was buried somewhere else, the power had passed to another dynasty.

After his son Perdiccas Argaios ascended the throne of Macedon.