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Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.
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Amyntas and III
By his wife Eurydice, Amyntas had three sons, Alexander II, Perdiccas III and the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II of Macedon.
A unified Macedonian state was eventually established by King Amyntas III ( c. 393 – 370 BC ), though it still retained strong contrasts between the cattle-rich coastal plain and the fierce isolated tribal hinterland, allied to the king by marriage ties.
The most common way to exploit these different sources of income was by leasing: the Pseudo-Aristotle reports in the Oeconomica that Amyntas III ( or maybe Philip II ) doubled the kingdom's port revenues with the help of Callistratus, who had taken refuge in Macedon, bringing them from 20 to 40 talents per year.
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.
* Amyntas III, a great grandson of Alexander I, becomes king of Macedonia following the disorders that have plagued the country following the death of the powerful King Archelaus I in 399 BC.
* Sparta suppresses the Chalcidian League and imposes terms favourable to King Amyntas III of Macedonia.
* Perdiccas III of Macedon, son of Amyntas III and Eurydice II, kills Ptolemy of Aloros, who has been the regent of Macedon since he arranged the assassination of Perdiccas III's brother Alexander II in 368 BC.
Amyntas and Greek
About 393 we find it concluding an important treaty with Amyntas III of Macedon ( the father of Philip II ), and by 382 it had absorbed most of the Greek cities west of the Strymon, and had even got possession of Pella, the chief city in Macedon.
Amyntas II ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Βʹ ) or Amyntas the Little, king of Macedon, was son of Philip or Menelaus, brother of Perdiccas II.
Finally, after the reign of Menander I, several Indo-Greek rulers, such as Amyntas, King Nicias, Peukolaos, Hermaeus, Hippostratos and Menander II, depicted themselves or their Greek deities forming with the right hand a benediction gesture identical to the Buddhist vitarka mudra ( thumb and index joined together, with other fingers extended ), which in Buddhism signifies the transmission of Buddha's teaching.
Alexander II ( Greek Ἀλέξανδρος Β ΄) was king of Macedon in 371 – 369 BC, following the death of his father Amyntas III.
Amyntas IV ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Δ `) was a titular king of Macedonia in 359 BC and member of the Argead dynasty.
Ten years later king Amyntas III was forced to entrust a portion of his kingdom to the Greek Chalcidians, who refused to relinquish it, and by 382 BC had extended their control westward, including Macedon ’ s capital Pella.
Sparta, the most powerful of the Greek states at that time, intervened and restored Amyntas to his capital in 379 BC, but Macedonia had to accept subservience to Sparta.
Attalus ( in Greek Aτταλoς ; lived 4th century BC ), son of Andromenes the Stymphaean, and one of Alexander's officers, was accused with his brothers, Amyntas and Simmias, of having been engaged in the conspiracy of Philotas, 330 BC, but was acquitted, together with his brothers.
Amyntas and died
In 370 BC, the worthy Amyntas died full of years, having restored the fortunes of his kingdom after the Illyrian disasters.
Amyntas and BC
Emperor Augustus reformed the state administration and placed Pamphylia and Side in the Roman province of Galatia in 25 BC, after the short reign of Amyntas of Galatia between 36 and 25 BC.
It seems that Bardyllis opposed the deal with Amyntas II and Sirras and invaded Macedonia in 393 BC.
In 392 BC, Amyntas III allied himself with the Thessalians and took Macedonia under his rule from the Dardanians.
Of his portrait-statues, the most celebrated were those of Philip, Alexander, Amyntas III, Olympias, and Eurydice I, which were made of ivory and gold, and were placed in the Philippeion a circular building in the Altis at Olympia, erected by Philip II of Macedon in celebration of his victory at Battle of Chaeronea ( 338 BC ).
In 336 BC Phillip II sent Parmenion, with Amyntas, Andromenes and Attalus and an army of 10, 000 men, to make preparations for the reduction of Asia.
The succession of Amyntas ' cousin Alexander in 336 BC changed things-he immediately had Amyntas executed.
In 39 BC Marcus Antonius entrusted Pisidia to the Galatian client king Amyntas and charged him with putting down the bandit Homonadesians of the Taurus Mountains, who threatened the roads connecting Pisidia to Pamphylia.
After Amyntas was killed in the struggle 25 BC, Rome made Pisidia part of the new province of Galatia.
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