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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Argaeus appears 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 481/0 BCE. The royal house of MACEDONIA traced its ancestry to the Greek city of ARGOS.

SEE ALSO: Amyntas son of Alcetas; Genealogies; Philip son of Argaeus