Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aristonīcus, Arrhidaeus

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Arrhidaeus

（Ἀρριδαῖος). The son of Philip of Macedon and a female dancer, Philinna of Larissa. He was of imbecile understanding. On the death of Alexander, B.C. 323, he was elected king under the name of Philip, and in 322 he married Eurydicé. On their return to Macedonia he and his wife were made prisoners and put to death by order of Olympias, in the year 317.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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