The peace of Perdiccas was disturbed for some years by the ambitious designs of his youngest brother, Philip, who aspired to the throne. In the beginning of his reign, mdeed, Perdiccas found himself surrounded by suspicious friends, and open foes. The Thraciaris, and other barbarous nations, looked upon his kingdom with an envious eye; the Persians affected to ...

By some authorities, Archelaus is branded with the twofold stigma of base birth and sanguinary crime. These charges, however, rest upon slender authority. It is more satisfactorily ascertained that he was a prince of eminent talents, and that the kingdom of Macedonia was more indebted to him than to any of its preceding1 monarchs, for the ...