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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

The Macedonian king AMYNTAS SON OF ALCETAS offered Anthemus to HIPPIAS, the exiled Athenian TYRANT, after SPARTA’s allies refused to help re‐install him at ATHENS (c. 504 BCE). Hippias declined and withdrew to SIGEIUM in the Troad, a traditional power base for the PEISISTRATIDAE (5.94.1). The city of Anthemus appears to have developed only in the fourth century BCE, so Amyntas’ offer must pertain to a region: the valley of the Anthemus River, flowing from the interior of the Chalcidice peninsula into the THERMAIC GULF south of the later site of Thessalonike (BA 50 D4). The offer indicates that the area was under Macedonian control at this date (cf. Thuc. 2.99.6); Amyntas may have acted with an eye to pleasing the Persian King (Xydopoulos 2012).

SEE ALSO: Iolcus; Macedonia; Medize