{"slug": "perdiccas-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Perdiccas II of Macedon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdiccas_II_of_Macedon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318426", "qid": "Q318426", "description": "king of Macedonia", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-449, -412], "span_label": ["450 BCE", "413 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Perdiccas II"], "related": [{"slug": "macedonia-ancient-kingdom", "label": "Macedonia (ancient kingdom)", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "potidaea", "label": "Potidaea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chalcis", "label": "Chalcis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "acarnania", "label": "Acarnania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaloniki", "label": "Thessaloniki", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gulf-of-corinth", "label": "Gulf of Corinth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chalkidiki", "label": "Chalkidiki", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Perdiccas II succeeds Alexander I as king of Macedonia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Macedonia", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -433, "year_label": "434 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip, brother of Perdiccas II of Macedon challenges Perdiccas for the throne, and enlists the support of Athens and King Derdas of Elimea. Perdiccas responds by stirring up rebellion in a number of Athenian tribute cities, including Potidaea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317718470#Greece", "title": "434 BC", "revid": 1317718470, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -431, "year_label": "432 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian admiral, Phormio, continues the siege of Potidaea by blocking the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Meanwhile an Athenian fleet, led by Archestratus, sails for Potidaea. However, instead of attacking Potidaea, they attack the Macedonians under Perdiccas II, who have allied with the Potidaeans. The Athenians capture Therma (modern Thessalonica) and then go on to besiege Pydna. However, as the Athenians are besieging Pydna, they receive news that Corinth has sent a force under the command of Aristeus to support Potidaea. In response, Athens sends more troops and ships under the command of Hipponicus. The combined Athenian force sails to Potidaea and lands there. In the ensuing Battle of Potidaea, the Athenians are victorious against Corinth and its allies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330384213#Greece", "title": "432 BC", "revid": 1330384213, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -430, "year_label": "431 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Athens enters into an alliance with King Sitalkes of Thrace, after Nymphodorus, an influential Athenian, marries Sitalkes' sister. Nymphodorus then negotiates an agreement between Athens and Macedon's King Perdiccas II, through which Perdiccas regains Therma. As a result, Athens withdraws its support for Perdiccas' brother, Philip, and the Thracians promise to assist Perdiccas in capturing him. In return, Perdiccas marches on the Chalcidians, the people he has originally persuaded to revolt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364036128#Greece", "title": "431 BC", "revid": 1364036128, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -428, "year_label": "429 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonian king, Perdiccas II, once again betrays the Athenians and sends 1000 troops to support a Spartan assault on Acarnania but they arrive too late to help. In response to this, King Sitalkes of Thrace invades Macedonia with a vast army that includes independent Thracian tribes (such as the Dii) and Paionian tribes (Agrianes and Laeaeans). His progress is slowed when the promised support from Athens fails to materialise. So Perdiccas once again uses diplomacy to ensure the survival of Macedonia. He promises the hand of his sister in marriage to the nephew of Sitalkes, who then persuades Sitalkes to leave Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172916#Greece", "title": "429 BC", "revid": 1354172916, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After he frustrates the Athenian attack on Megara, Brasidas marches through Boeotia and Thessaly to Chalcidice at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries to join the Macedonian king Perdiccas II. Refusing to be made a tool for the furtherance of Perdiccas' ambitions, Brasidas wins over the important cities of Acanthus, Stagirus, Amphipolis, and Torone as well as several minor towns. An attack on Eion is foiled by the arrival of Thucydides at the head of an Athenian squadron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -412, "year_label": "413 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Archelaus I becomes King of Macedonia following the death of his father, King Perdiccas II. Archelaus seizes the throne after murdering his uncle, his cousin, and his half brother, the legitimate heir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353493943#Greece", "title": "413 BC", "revid": 1353493943, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}