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3 unusual facts about Amyntas III of Macedon


Amyntas III of Macedon

Amyntas shipped the timber to the house of the Athenian Timotheus, in the Piraeus.

Methoni, Pieria

We also know that in 359 BC, Argeas, former enemy of Amyntas (father of Philip II of Macedon), or according to certain historians (Diodorus, XVI, 3, 5.) one of his sons, had just obtained a fleet of 3,000 hoplites from the Athenians: The troops disembarked and then set up in Methoni.

Olynthus

About 393 we find it concluding an important treaty with Amyntas III of Macedon (the father of Philip II), and by 382 it had absorbed most of the Greek cities west of the Strymon, and had even got possession of Pella, the chief city in Macedon.



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