Pausanias of Macedon ( grc, Παυσανίας ὁ τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλεύςHe likely would have been called or but this, "Pausanias the king of the Macedonians," is how Diodoros Siculus names him in ''

Bibliotheca historica ''Bibliotheca historica'' ( grc, Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική, ) is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus. It consisted of forty books, which were divided into three sections. The first six books are geographical in theme, ...

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Aeropus II of Macedon Aeropus II of Macedon ( grc, Ἀέροπος, Aéropos), king of Macedonia, son of Perdiccas II, was guardian during the minority of his nephew Orestes, with whom he reigned for some years after 399 BC. The first four years of this time he reig ...

Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica''
14.84.6
Here he uses Theopompus of Chios as source."Pausanias (entry 5)"
in William Smith, editor, ''

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/ biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 ...

'' in the Argead dynasty of

Macedon Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled ...

. He was assassinated in 394 BCE, the year of his accession, by

Amyntas III Amyntas III (Greek: Αμύντας Γ΄ της Μακεδονίας) (420 – 370 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 393 BC and again from 392 to 370 BC. He was the son of Arrhidaeus and grandson of Amyntas, one of the sons ...

Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica''
14.89.2
/ref> (also called Amyntas II), who then succeeded him as King of Macedonia.

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Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history '' Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which ...

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