Perdiccas
historical figure · 7 works · 18 mentions · 38 anchored passages
Perdiccas son of Alexander · Perdiccas, the son of Alexander · king of Macedonia · king of the Macedonians · that Perdiccas
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
King of the Macedonians; formerly an Athenian ally who turns against Athens and instigates the revolt of Potidaea, the Chalcidians, and the Bottiaeans.
and Perdiccas the son of Alexander, king of the Macedonians, had been made their enemy, though he was before an ally and a friend.
And Perdiccas persuaded the Chalcidians to abandon and throw down their cities on the sea, and remove inland to Olynthus, and make that one city a place of strength for themselves.
for he had broken terms again immediately with the Athenians, and was in alliance with the Potidaeans, having appointed Iolaus to represent him as commander.
On the Embassy
Philip's brother, who as a child was protected by Athenian intervention and who, on becoming king, later fought Athens over Amphipolis before a truce was made.
For shortly after the death of Amyntas, and of Alexander, the eldest of the brothers, while Perdiccas and Philip were still children, when their mother Eurydice had been betrayed by those who professed to be their friends, and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne, an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with h …
for I told how, when you had conquered Perdiccas in the war, under the generalship of Callisthenes, you made a truce with him, ever expecting to receive some just return.
When Iphicrates had come into this region—with a few ships at first, for the purpose of examining into the situation rather than of laying siege to the city— Then, said I, your mother Eurydice sent for him, and according to the testimony of all who were present, she put your brother Perdiccas into the arms of Iphicrates, and set you upon his knees—for you were a little boy—and said, Amyntas, the f …
Against Aristocrates
Macedonian king during the Persian invasion whose service was rewarded without extraordinary personal protection.
Or take Perdiccas, who was reigning in Macedonia at the time of the Persian invasion, and who destroyed the Persians on their retreat from Plataea, and made the defeat of the King irreparable.
On Organization
Macedonian king credited with attacking retreating barbarians after Plataea and receiving tax immunity rather than citizenship.
On an earlier occasion, when Perdiccas, who was king of Macedonia at the time of the Persian invasions, destroyed the barbarians who were retreating after their defeat at Plataea and so completed the discomfiture of the Great King, they did not vote him the citizenship, but only gave him immunity from taxes;
The Histories
Legendary founder of the Macedonian royal dynasty, youngest of three brothers exiled from Argos, whose acceptance of the king's mocking gift of sunlight secures Macedonia for his line.
Three brothers of the lineage of Temenus came as banished men from Argos to Illyria, Gauanes and Aeropus and Perdiccas;
Whenever she baked bread, the loaf of the thete Perdiccas grew double in size.
From that Perdiccas Alexander was descended, being the son of Amyntas, who was the son of Alcetes;
Meditations
Macedonian ruler whose invitation Socrates reportedly refused.
Socrates, on why he would not go to Perdiccas: