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Amyntas III (or '''II'''), son of Arrhidaeus, grandfather of Alexander The Great , was king of Macedon from 393 (or 389) to 369 BC . He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed the death of Archelaus II , the patron of art and literature. But he had many enemies at home; in 383 he was driven out by the Illyria ns, but in the following year, with the aid of the Thessalia ns, he recovered his kingdom. He concluded a treaty with the Sparta ns, who assisted him to reduce Olynthus ( 379 ). He also entered into a league with Jason Of Pherae , and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens . By his wife, Eurydice , he had three sons, the youngest of whom was the famous Philip II Of Macedon . REFERENCES
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