Perdiccas II of Macedon

Perdiccas II of Macedon in Wikipedia

Perdiccas II (Greek: Περδίκκας Β) was King of Macedonia from about 454 BC to about 413 BC. He was the son of Alexander I.[1] Background After the death of Alexander in 452, Macedon began to fall apart. Macedonian tribes became almost completely autonomous, and were only loosely allied to the king. By 434, Perdiccas' brother, Philip, had challenged...

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Perdiccas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son and successor of Alexander I. of Macedonia, reigning from B.C. 454 to 413. Shortly before the Peloponnesian War, Perdiccas was at war with the Athenians, who sent a force to support his brother Philip, and Derdas, a Macedonian chieftain, against the king, while the latter espoused the cause of Potidaea, which had shaken off the Athenian yok...

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