Alcetas of Macedon
id:
alcetas-of-macedon-279-14220735
title:
Alcetas of Macedon
text:
Alcetas was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He was a member of the Argead dynasty and son of Aeropus I. By allowing thirty years for the span of an average generation from the beginning of Archelaus' reign in 413 BC, British historian Nicholas Hammond estimated that Alcetas ruled around 533 BC. According to Herodotus and Thucydides, Alcetas was the fifth king of Macedonia. However, a much later tradition records Caranus as the founder of Macedonia and therefore Alcetas as the eight
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
6th-century BC Macedonian king
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcetas_of_Macedon
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-15T02:35:56Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q313901","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q313901"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14