By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.

The partition is a result of a compromise, essentially brokered by Eumenes, following a conflict of opinion between the party of Meleager, who wishes to give full power to Philip III ( the illegitimate son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa ), and the party of Perdiccas, who wishes to wait for the birth of the heir of Alexander and his wife, Roxana ( the future Alexander IV ) to give him the throne under the control of a regent.

* Under the agreement, Philip III becomes king, but Perdiccas, as the regent, effectively becomes the ruler of Alexander's empire.

Amyntas had three sons ; the first two, Alexander II and Perdiccas III reigned only briefly.

This can be seen with Perdiccas III, slain by the Illyrians, Philip II assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis, Alexander the Great, suddenly died of malady, etc.

The deaths of Philip's elder brothers, King Alexander II and Perdiccas III, allowed him to take the throne in 359 BCE.

Originally appointed regent for his infant nephew Amyntas IV, who was the son of Perdiccas III, Philip managed to take the kingdom for himself that same year.

* Alexander immediately has Amyntas IV, son of King Perdiccas III and cousin of Alexander, executed.

* The Macedonian King Perdiccas III is killed while defending his country against an Illyrian attack led by King Bardylis.

* Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia

He flees to Methone in Macedonia, where he is accommodated by King Perdiccas III who draws on his financial expertise.

Although Alexander's brother, Perdiccas III becomes the next king, he is under age, and Ptolemy is appointed regent.

With Ptolemy's death, Perdiccas III becomes King of Macedon in his own right.

His general Perdiccas became the regent of all of Alexander's empire, while Alexander's physically and mentally disabled half-brother Arrhidaeus was chosen as the next king under the name Philip III of Macedon.

Initially, Perdiccas ruled the empire as regent for Alexander's half-brother Arrhidaeus, who became Philip III of Macedon, and then as regent for both Philip III and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV of Macedon, who had not been born at the time of his father's death.

Coin of Perdiccas III, with figure of Herakles.

Perdiccas III ( Greek: Περδίκκας Γ ) was king of Macedonia from 368 to 359 BC, succeeding his brother Alexander II.

* Perdiccas III Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

fr: Perdiccas III de Macédoine

nl: Perdiccas III van Macedonië

Perdiccas III's infant heir was deposed by Amyntas ' third son, Philip II of Macedon, who made himself king and ushered in a period of Macedonian dominance in Greece.

At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon ( then ruled by Perdiccas II ) with a vast army that included 150, 000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes.

* 678 BC — approximate date of death of Perdiccas I, king of Macedon

* Perdiccas II, King of Macedon, r. 454 – 413 BC

* 735 Perdiccas I of Macedon flees from Argos to Macedonia and conquers the land.

* Philip, brother of Perdiccas II of Macedon challenges Perdiccas for the throne, and enlists the support of Athens and King Derdas of Elimea.

The bones or ashes of Aesculapius at Epidaurus, and of Perdiccas I at Macedon, were treated with the deepest veneration.

Perdiccas, who became regent of Macedon on the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, had mutineers from the faction of Meleager thrown to the elephants to be crushed in the city of Babylon.

In approximately 650 BC, the Argeads, an ancient Greek royal house led by Perdiccas I, fled from Argos and established their capital at Aegae, thereby also establishing the Kingdom of Macedon.

The capital city of the Macedon kings was called so after Perdiccas I, who was advised by the Pythian priestess to build the capital city of his kingdom where goats led him.

In 432 King Perdiccas II of Macedon encouraged several nearby coastal towns to disband and remove their population to Olynthus, preparatory to a revolt to be led by Potidaea against Athens ( Thuc.

Meanwhile Brasidas began to ally with more Thracian towns, as well as Perdiccas II of Macedon, and he attacked other towns in the area, such as Torone.

Athens was afraid that Potidaea would revolt due to Corinthian or Macedonian influence, as Perdiccas II of Macedon was encouraging revolts among Athens ' other allies in Thrace.

Amyntas II ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Βʹ ) or Amyntas the Little, king of Macedon, was son of Philip or Menelaus, brother of Perdiccas II.

Near the modern city of Veria, Perdiccas I ( or, more likely, his son, Argaeus I ) built his capital, Aigai ( modern Vergina ).

* The Athenian orator and diplomat, Demades, is sent to the Macedonian court, but either the Macedonian regent Antipater or his son Cassander, learning that Demades has intrigued with the former regent Perdiccas, puts him to death.

From there Perdiccas turned west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his son Demetrius to Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ( 321 BC ), and Craterus.

Perdiccas was succeeded by his infant son, Amyntas IV.

A reconciliation was effected, principally by the intervention of Eumenes, and it was agreed that the royal authority should be divided between Arrhidaeus and the expected son of Roxana, and that in the mean time Meleager should be associated with Perdiccas in the regency.

Archelaus was a son of Perdiccas II by a slave woman.

Amyntas was a son of King Perdiccas III of Macedon.

Eurydice had four children: Alexander II, Perdiccas III, Philip II, all of whom would be crowned kings, a daughter Eurynoe, and through her son Philip, she was the paternal grandmother of Alexander the Great.

Initially, Perdiccas ruled the empire as regent for Alexander's half-brother Arrhidaeus, who became Philip III of Macedon, and then as regent for both Philip III and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV of Macedon, who had not been born at the time of his father's death.

* Attalus ( son of Andromenes ), general of Alexander the Great and Perdiccas

Whatever the case, Thucydides's account of the Macedonian state describes its accumulated territorial extent by the rule of Perdiccas II, Alexander I ’ s son.