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There does not seem to be any modern evidence that Archelaus II existed. The only reference is to a work by Sir Walter Raleigh!! The article's facts and dates clash or are inconsistent with articles that rely on more reliable sources. Chewings72 ( talk) 10:57, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
To clarify, the succession order given by modern sources is generally Perdiccas II -> Archelaus (I) -> Orestes -> Aeropus II -> Amyntas II -> Pausanias -> Amyntas III. Eusebius and Synkellos, writing in Late antiquity/ early medieval period, record Orestes’ successor as "Archelaus" (our Archelaus II). However, Diodorus, as well as a few other sources, call Orestes' successor "Aeropos" (March pp. 275-276). What’s likely going on here is that Aeropos adopted the name "Archelaus" when he became king (March p. 280). Alternatively, the "Archelaus" could be a mistake in the Eusebian and Synkellan sources (King p.65, Hammond 1979 p.168). In either case, there is no Archelaus II.
This is all pretty complicated, so anyone interested in this niche subject should read Duane A. March's journal article The Kings of Makedon: 399-369 B.C.
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Eder, Walter; Renger, Johannes, eds. (2006). Chronologies of the Ancient World: Names, Dates, and Dynasties. Boston: Brill. pp. 188–190. | X |
Morby, John (1989). Dynasties of the World: A Chronological and Genealogical Handbook. Oxford University Press. pp. 29–30. | X |
Roisman, Joseph (2010)." Classical Macedonia to Perdiccas III". In Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (eds.). A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 158. | X |
Errington, R. Malcolm (1990). A History of Macedonia. University of California Press. pp. 251–253. | X |
Hammond, N.G.L. (1979). A History of Macedonia Volume II: 550-336 B.C. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 167–169. | X |
Strootman, Rolf (2014). Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. xiv–xv. | X |
Heckel, Waldemar (2020). Lexicon of Argead Makedonia. Berlin: Frank & Timme. p. 25. | X |
King, Carol J. (2018). Ancient Macedonia. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. xvi–xviii. ISBN 978-0-415-82727-0. | X |
A big thank you to user:Chewings72 for bringing this to AFD. I’ve been meaning to take care of it since I first started editing Wikipedia! BusterTheMighty ( talk) 02:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Aeropos adopted the name "Archelaus" when he became king, then there is an Archelaus II, he's just not a different person from Aeropus II. Srnec ( talk) 03:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)