#amyntas

Default Routes tropes:

MC: Amnesia | Second Chance | Soul Mate | The Mentor | Chosen One

Apprentice: Found Family | Orphan gets a guardian | Coming to your own | Growing Up during the apocalypse | trained by the hero

Tropes For the Romance Options:

LadyB: Grumpy meets (sunny/grumpy/rake) | Royal/Commoner | Mentor

Bernie: Royal/Commoner | Distress Ball | Monster Fucker | Scars are Forever

Laz: If starting out as FWB FWB to lovers | One sided/ Unrequited love | Secret identity

If romanced as normal Rake in love | Secret identity | Dark Past | Secret identity

Amyntas: Enemies to lovers | Boy hates girl- oop never mind he's in love with her | Forbidden love | Conflicting Loyalty

Bishop: lovers in denial | FWB to lovers (potentially) | One night stand

Indigo: Bang the lead singer of the Band | One night stand | Secret identity.

Perierat: If I can’t have you, nobody will. | Mad Love | removing the rival | I LIVE INSIDE OF YOU |

Asha: widow(er) | Single mom romance | Pen pal romance | Scars are Forever

Lace: Pen pal romance | Conflicting Loyalty | Rebellious Rebel | Sleeping Their Way to the Top

Ribbon: Boy/Girl meets ghoul | Pen pal romance | Paranormal romance | Reincarnation Romance

Amyntas Perdikka

We know very little. He was about a year old when his father died. Despite some contention that he was (briefly) Amyntas IV with Philip as regent, that assumes a constitutional monarchy that most current Macedoniasts reject. Macedonian kings weren’t “elected,” but acclaimed. As a warrior people, the Macedonians wanted a warrior king, where that was an option.

Any Argead male was a viable king, although nomos (custom) seems (I stress the seems) to have offered a little guidance. The son of the prior king was preferred, and the son of the prior king whose mother had the highest social status. But this did not stop Argeads from cheerfully killing each other for the kingship, especially half-siblings from different mothers if they were considered a threat.

Part of the problem is that most of our history of Argead Macedonia is being related by Greeks, who didn’t understand their royal polygamy…or much else. So we’re trying to piece it together from confused texts.

Anyway, with the choice between an infant barely old enough to toddle and a young man who already had archonship of his own canton (and a mini-army to boot), who would you choose?

Yeah. Philip became king. He let Amyntas live because 1) he had no son of his own yet, and 2) Amyntas was literally no threat at all. As soon as Philip had Alexander, Amyntas was sidelined.

We can look at treaties for a hint. Macedonian kings made treaties in their own names, not “the Macedonian people,” unlike the southern city-states. And all the male Argeads were lined up behind in order of (apparent) inheritance. We don’t have a lot of these for Philip, but the Corinthian League treaty has Alexander before Amyntas. Also, notice that Amyntas is never mentioned in Diodoros (el al.) as head of any major military action. We hear more about some of Philip’s generals than his nephew.

So Amyntas got to live, but it was clearly circumscribed. Waldemar Heckel, however, has suggested that he may have been given his own set of syntrophoi (companions of a prince), and that Philotas was among them. Age-wise, they’d have been more contemporary than Philotas and Alexander. I found that so intriguing I stole it for the novels, but do note it’s speculation purely.

We don’t really hear about Amyntas until right before Philip’s death, when the king married him to Kynanne while Alexander was in exile. I said in an earlier ask that seems to have been Philip’s stop-gap until Alexander came home…or in case he didn’t. Arrhidaios was also promised in marriage…but out of the country. Even if that proposal fell through, it suggests Philip intended Amyntas to be the “runner up” heir, not Arrhidaios. This is backed up by the Corinthian inscription. Amyntas, btw, was the father of Hadea Eurydike, who eventually married Arrhidaios.

AND by Alexander’s actions after Philip’s death. If Philip could afford to leave an infant alive, Alexander couldn’t. Amyntas was killed within 6 months of Philip, probably sooner rather than later, accused of having been in on the murder, but Alexander didn’t really need an excuse. Filicide, or cousin-cide in this case, was pretty normal succession procedure in Macedon. Arrhidaios got to live because, again, as with Philip and Amyntas, Arrhidaios was no threat to Alexander…but Alexander still took him to Asia so nobody else could use him to usurp the throne in Alexander’s absence. They were the last surviving male Argeads.

Coin of the times of the reign of Amyntas, King of Galatia (36-25 BCE) showing Herakles shouldering a club and a lion on the back side.

Amyntas was the former writer and commander of King Deitaros and an experienced military leader in Galatia.

He was the last king of the Galatians before it became a Roman province in the late 1st century BCE.

He also was the only Galatian leader who had no name of Celtic origin.

Download : Sam Feldt X Lucas & Steve Ft. Wulf - Summer On You (Amyntas Remix) - Amyntas

Six TIMES!!!

Does he give off father vibes?