Archelaus

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Historical Persons

• Archelaus (philosopher)
  Archelaus (philosopher)
  
  Archelaus , a Ancient Greece Natural philosopher of the 5th century BCE, was a pupil of Anaxagoras, and said by some to have been a teacher of Socrates....
  , pupil of Anaxagoras, 5th century BC
• Archelaus I of Macedon
  Archelaus I of Macedon
  
  Archelaus I was king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, following the death of Perdiccas II of Macedon. The son of Perdiccas by a slave woman, Archelaus obtained the throne by murdering his uncle, his cousin, and his half-brother, the legitimate heir, but proved a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state adm...
  , reigned 413-399 BC
• Archelaus of Chersonesus in Egypt, Hellenistic Greek poet, flourished 125 BC
• Archelaus (general)
  Archelaus (general)
  
  Archelaus was a general and possibly a son in law of Mithridates VI of Pontus in the First Mithridatic War. In 87 BC, he was sent to Greece with a large army and fleet, and occupied the Piraeus after three days' fighting with Bruttius Sura, prefect of Macedonia , who in the previous year had defeated Mithridates' fleet under Metrophanes and...
  , fought in the First and Third Mithridatic Wars (1st century BC)
• Archelaus of Cappadocia
  Archelaus of Cappadocia
  
  Archelaus IV, later Archelaus, King of Cappadocia was the last King of Cappadocia. He was the son of Archelaus III, High Priest of Comana, Cappadocia, and wife Galaphyra , paternal grandson of Archelaus II, created High Priest of Comana, Cappadocia in Cappadocia in 60 BC by Pompey, possibly made co-regent on marriage, but killed in bat...
  , reigned 36 BC-AD 17
• Herod Archelaus
  Herod Archelaus
  
  Herod Archelaus was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Edom from 4 BC to 6 AD. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip I....
  , ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea, 4 BC-6 AD
• Archelaus of Sparta, son of Agesilaus
  Agesilaus I
  
  Agesilaus I , son of Doryssus, was the sixth king of the Agiad line at Sparta, excluding Aristodemus. According to Apollodorus, reigned forty-four years, and died in 886 BC....
  

Mythological Persons

• Archelaus, son of Heracles
  Heracles
  
  In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
  
• Archelaus, son Electryon
  Electryon
  
  In Greek mythology, Electryon was the son of Perseus and Andromeda , and king of Mycenae. He married either Anaxo, daughter of his brother Alcaeus and sister of Amphitryon, or Eurydice of Mycenae daughter of Pelops....
   and Anaxo
  Anaxo
  
  In Greek mythology, Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and either Astydamia, daughter of Pelops or Laonome, daughter of Guneus, or Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus....
  . He was killed by the sons of Pterelaus
  Pterelaus
  
  The name Pterelaus is attributed to two individuals in Greek mythology....
  , who were reclaiming the kingdom of their ancestor Nestor
  Nestor
  
  Nestor may refer to:*Nestor , the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology*Nestor *Nestor , a genus of parrots in ornithology...
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• Archelaus, son of Aegyptus
  Aegyptus
  
  In Greek mythology, Aegyptus is a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io , and the river-god Nilus , and was a king in Ancient Egypt. Aegyptos was the son of Belus and Achiroe, a naiad daughter of Nile....
  . He was killed by his wife, Anaxibia
  Anaxibia
  
  Anaxibia is the name of five characters in Greek mythology.*Anaxibia, the daughter of Bias and Iphianassa, and niece of Melampus. She married Pelias, to whom she bore Acastus, Pisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, Alcestis, and Medusa....
  , daughter of Danaus
  Danaus
  
  Danaus, or Danaos , was a Greek mythology, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus , a mythical king of Ancient Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean Greece cities of the Peloponnesus....
  .
• Archelaus, son of Temenus
  Temenus
  
  In Greek mythology, Temenus was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Cresphontes and Aristodemus. He was a great-great-grandson of Heracles and helped lead the fifth and final attack on Mycenae in the Peloponnesus....
   (son of Heracles
  Heracles
  
  In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
  ). Driven into exile by his brothers, he was promised the kingdom of king Cisseus
  Cisseus
  
  In Greek mythology, Cisseus was a Thracian king and father of Theano, the wife of Antenor , as related in Homer's Iliad. His wife was Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy....
   of Macedon
  Macedon
  
  Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
  ia, along with the hand in marriage of his daughter. He was, however, betrayed and murdered by the king.