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Amyntas II (Greek: Ἀμύντας Βʹ) or Amyntas the Little, king of Macedon, was son of Philip or Menelaus, brother of Perdiccas II. (Thuc. ii. 95.) He succeeded his father in his appanage in Upper Macedonia, of which Perdiccas seems to have wished to deprive him, as he had before endeavoured to wrest it from Philip, but had been hindered by the Athenians.

In 429 BC Amyntas, aided by Sitalces, king of the Odrysian Thracians, stood forward to contest with Perdiccas the throne of Macedonia itself; but the latter contrived to obtain peace through the mediation of Seuthes, the nephew of the Thracian king (Thuc. ii. 101); and Amyntas was thus obliged to content himself with his hereditary principality.

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+'''Amyntas II''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: Ἀμύντας Βʹ) or '''Amyntas the Little''', king of [[Macedon]], was son of Philip or Menelaus, brother of [[Perdiccas II]]. (Thuc. ii. 95.) He succeeded his father in his [[appanage]] in [[Upper Macedonia]], of which Perdiccas seems to have wished to deprive him, as he had before endeavoured to wrest it from Philip, but had been hindered by the Athenians.
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-'''Amyntas II''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: ''Ἀμύντας Βʹ'') or '''Amyntas the Little''', king of [[Macedon]], was son of Philip or Menelaus, brother of [[Perdiccas II]]. (Thuc. ii. 95.) He succeeded his father in his [[appanage]] in [[Upper Macedonia]], of which Perdiccas seems to have wished to deprive him, as he had before endeavoured to wrest it from Philip, but had been hindered by the Athenians.
 In 429 BC Amyntas, aided by [[Sitalces]], king of the Odrysian Thracians, stood forward to contest with Perdiccas the throne of Macedonia itself; but the latter contrived to obtain peace through the mediation of Seuthes, the nephew of the Thracian king (Thuc. ii. 101); and Amyntas was thus obliged to content himself with his hereditary principality.

v t e Kings of Macedon
Legendary	Caranus Coenus Tyrimmas	Vergina Sun
Argead dynasty	Perdiccas I Argaeus I Philip I Aeropus I Alcetas Amyntas I Alexander I Perdiccas II Archelaus Orestes Aeropus II Amyntas II Pausanias Amyntas III Argaeus II Alexander II Ptolemy of Aloros Perdiccas III Amyntas IV Philip II Alexander III (the Great) Philip III Alexander IV
Antipatrid dynasty	Cassander Philip IV Antipater I Alexander V
Dynastic conflict	Demetrius I Pyrrhus Lysimachus Ptolemy Ceraunus Meleager Antipater II Sosthenes Antigonus II Pyrrhus
Antigonid dynasty	Antigonus II Demetrius II Antigonus III Philip V Perseus
Post-Conquest Rebel Kings	Andriscus Pseudo-Alexander Pseudo-Philip/Pseudo-Perseus Euephenes
Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.