. consisted of Thracianand Illyrian tribes. At an early period someGreek tribes settled in S. part of thecountry. They are said to have come fromArgos, and to have been led by Gauanes,Aeropus, and Perdiccas, three descendants ofTemenus, the Heraclid. Perdiccas, the youngestof the brothers, was looked upon as the founder MACELLA MACRINUS 513 of tlie Macedonian monarchy (Hdt. viii. 138). A Ilater tradition, however, regarded Caranus, who iwas also a Heraclid from Argos, as the founderof the monarchy. These Greek settlers inter-mar
. consisted of Thracianand Illyrian tribes. At an early period someGreek tribes settled in S. part of thecountry. They are said to have come fromArgos, and to have been led by Gauanes,Aeropus, and Perdiccas, three descendants ofTemenus, the Heraclid. Perdiccas, the youngestof the brothers, was looked upon as the founder MACELLA MACRINUS 513 of tlie Macedonian monarchy (Hdt. viii. 138). A Ilater tradition, however, regarded Caranus, who iwas also a Heraclid from Argos, as the founderof the monarchy. These Greek settlers inter-married with the original inhabitants of thecountry. The dialect which they spoke wasakin to the Doric, but it contained manybarbarous words and forms ; and the Macedo-nians were accordingly never regarded by theother Greeks as genuine Hellenes. Moreover,it was only in the S. of Macedonia that theGreek language was spoken; in the N. andNW. of the country the Illyrian tribes con-tinued to speak their own language and topreserve their ancient habits and Coin of Macedonia, aiter Roman head of Artemis in shield; HAREiOXIQNflPOTHZ and club of Heracles, surrounded by oak-wreath. This is a coin of the first region, struck whenthe Roman senate gave the Macedonian regions theright of coinki- sliver, in log Very little is known of the history of Mace-donia till the reign of Amyutas I., who was acontemporary of Darius Hystaspis; but fromthat time their history is more or less intimatelyconnected with that of Greece, till at lengthPhilip, the father of Alexander the Great,became the virtual master of the whole ofGreece. The conquests of Alexander extendedthe Macedonian supremacy over a great part ofAsia; and the Macedonian kings continued toexercise their sovereignty over Greece till thecotiquest of Perseus by the Romans, 168,brought the Macedonian monarchy to a details of the Macedonian history aregiven in the lives of the separate kings. Macella
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