Sirras

Sirras (Greek Σίρρας; Irrhas also Sirrhas or written ) was a obermakedonischer prince, presumably the landscape Elimiotis, in the late 5th and early 4th century BC.

Sirras was the father of Eurydice, the. Around 390 BC, the Macedonian king Amyntas III married and the mother of the kings Alexander II, Perdiccas III. and Philip II was. This is evident from three contemporary inscriptions from Aegae ( Verina ). In Strabo is to learn that the maternal grandfather of the Eurydice lynkestische Prince Arrhabaios was I, whose daughter " Irra " was married to an unspecified man. This information is generally construed as a write error Strabo, who had transferred the name of the son- in error to the daughter of Lynkestenfürsten.

There is disagreement whether the question about the origin of Sirras, which is compounded by a statement of Plutarch, has the Eurydice described as Illyrerin. Karl Julius Beloch doubted this and suspected in Sirras a prince of Orestis, without being able to back this up with evidence. On the other hand, as Johann Gustav Droysen and Otto Abel recognized him as a prince of obermakedonischen landscape Elimiotis, as a son of Prince Derdas I., a theory supported effectively by, among others, Fritz Geyer. This is supported to a remark of Aristotle, who from a war of King Archelaus I. with Sirras and a Arrhabaios (probably his brother Arrhabaios II ) have been reported in which the king married one of his daughters with the Prince of Elimiotis. According to Geyer made ​​this marriage project represents a peace agreement between the king and his two opponents, the Elimiotenfürst Sirras must have been, which would have to have his first wife, the Lynkestin cast off the hand of the king's daughter.

The family connections of Sirras by Fritz Geyer:

In addition to a orestischen or elimiotischen Descent of Sirras can be found in historical research also representatives who favor an Illyrian or lynkestische.