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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Alcetas appears as the father of Amyntas (the first historically attested Macedonian king) in the list of Macedonian rulers given by Herodotus (8.139), descendants of PERDICCAS, the legendary founder of the kingship. The list presents the “pedigree” of ALEXANDER SON OF AMYNTAS; Herodotus tends to introduce such lists at key moments in the narrative (Bowie 2007, 219). Here, Alexander is about to address the Athenians as an envoy of the Persian general MARDONIUS in the winter of 480/79 BCE. The name Alcetas is well‐attested in MACEDONIA beginning in the fourth century (LGPN IV, 18 s.v. Ἀλκέτας).

SEE ALSO: Aëropus; Amyntas son of Alcetas; Genealogies