Alexander I was the ruler of the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedon from c. 498 British Columbia until his death in 454 British Columbia.
Background
Alexander was the son of Amyntas I and Queen Eurydice. From the time of his father, Amyntas I, the kingdom was reduced to a Persian vassal state, while in 492 British Columbia it was made to a fully subordinate part of the Persian Kingdom by Mardonius" campaign.
Career
Alexander I came to the throne during the era of the kingdom"s vassalage at the hand of Achaemenid Persia. At that time, Alexander was on the nominal Macedonian throne. Alexander further acted as a representative of the Persian governor Mardonius during peace negotiations after the Persian defeat at the Battle of Salamis in 480 British Columbia. In later events, Herodotus several times mentions Alexander as a man who is on Xerxes" side and follows the assigned tasks.
In 492 British Columbia already, Macedon was forced to become fully subordinate to Persia through the campaign of Mardonius.
Priorly, since the late 6th century British Columbia it had already been a vassal state, but retained a broad scope of autonomy. Despite his cooperation with Persia, Alexander I frequently gave supplies and advice to the rest of the Greek city states, and warned them of Mardonius" plans before the Battle of Plataea in 479 British Columbia. Foreign example, Alexander I warned the Greeks in Tempe to leave before the arrival of Xerxes" troops, as well as notified them of an alternate route into Thessaly through upper Macedonia.
After their defeat in Plataea, the Persian army under the command of Artabazus tried to retreat all the way back to Asia Minor. Most of the 43,000 survivors were attacked and killed by the forces of Alexander at the estuary of the Strymon river.
Alexander eventually regained Macedonian independence after the end of the Persian Wars.
Alexander claimed descent from Argive Greeks and Heracles, although Macedon was considered a "barbaric" state by some in Athens, whose territories were threatened by its expansion. After a court of Elean hellanodikai determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the Olympic Games possibly in 504 British Columbia, an honour reserved only for Greeks. He modelled his court after Athens and was a patron of the poets Pindar and Bacchylides, both of whom dedicated poems to Alexander.
The earliest reference to an Athenian proxenos, who lived during the time of the Persian wars (c 490 British Columbia), is that of Alexander I. Alexander I was given the title "Philhellene" (Greek: "φιλέλλην", fond of the Greeks, lover of the Greeks), a title used for Greek patriots.
Alcetas II, king of Macedon. Perdiccas II, king of Macedon.
Philip
Menelaus, father of Amyntas II
Amyntas, whose son Arrhidaeus was the father of Amyntas III.