Aeropus II of Macedon

Aeropus II of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀέροπος, romanized: Aéropos), king of Macedonia, son of Perdiccas II, was guardian during the minority of his king and kinsman,[1] Orestes, with whom he reigned for some years after 399 BC.[2]

Aeropus II
Silver stater of Aeropos II
King of Macedonia
Reign399–ca. 394 BC
PredecessorCrateuas
SuccessorPausanias/Archelaus II?
IssuePausanias of Macedon
DynastyArgead dynasty
FatherPerdiccas II
Motherunknown
ReligionAncient Greek religion

The first four years of this time he reigned jointly with Orestes, whom he murdered,[2] and the remainder alone. After his death by illness,[3] he was eventually succeeded by his son Pausanias.[3][1] An alternative historiographic tradition records that Archelaus II of Macedon, perhaps the brother of Orestes, succeeded Aeropus for one year before Pausanias deposed him.[4][5]

Two traditions relate how Aeropus was overawed by either the insolence[1][6] or the stratagems[7] of the Lacedaemonian king Agesilaus, allowing his armies free passage through Macedonia after their campaign in Asia.

References
  1. Farr, Edward (1850), History of the Macedonians, pp. 43-44
  2. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, 14.37.6
  3. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, 14.84.6, citing Theopompus, who wrote within 85 years of these events.
  4. Eusebius, Chronicon, writing 700 years afterwards. In the surviving Armenian translation, Eusebius's commentary states that the Pausanias succession tradition is not as reputable as the Archelaus II succession tradition, and his historical tables reflect this. However, Eusebius remains through the Armenian and Jerome's Latin translations the sole witness of the Archelaus II tradition in antiquity, remote as he is from the events described. Later Byzantine and Latin chroniclers follow his historical tables.
  5. Dexippus, ap. George Syncellus p. 263, a.
  6. Plutarch, "Life of Agesilaus", Parallel lives, 16.2. Repeated in Plutarch, "Apophthegmata laconica", Moralia, 43. Plutarch does not name Aeropus.
  7. Polyaenus, Strategemata, 2.1.17
Preceded by
Crateuas		 King of Macedon
399–ca. 394 BC		 Succeeded by
Pausanias

or

Archelaus II


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