Perdiccas I of Macedon
Greek · mortal · Recorded classification
Macedonian dynastic founder in Herodotus. The Satyrus quotation makes him son of Tyrimmas and directly father of Philip; Herodotus places Argaeus between Perdiccas and Philip. The two parentage accounts remain separate.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
No parents recorded in the default.
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestryOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
Claimed divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: TyrimmasSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Complete cited pedigree (15 ancestral accounts)
- TyrimmasOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Coenus of MacedonSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- Coenus of MacedonOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Caranus of MacedonSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- Caranus of MacedonOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: AristodamidasSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- AristodamidasOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: AcousSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- AcousOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Thestius, son of MaronSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- Thestius, son of MaronOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Maron, son of CeisusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- Maron, son of CeisusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: CeisusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- CeisusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: TemenusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- TemenusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: AristomachusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- AristomachusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: CleodaeusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- CleodaeusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: HyllusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- HyllusOnly the parents named in the transmitted passage are included. Missing coparents remain unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: HeraclesSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- mother: DeianiraSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- HeraclesThe quoted pedigree explicitly calls Heracles son of Zeus but does not name his mother. Other accounts remain separately available. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: ZeusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- DeianiraThe pedigree names Dionysus and Althaea; the Oeneus account is preserved separately. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: DionysusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- mother: AlthaeaSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- AlthaeaOnly the parents named in the transmitted passage are included. Missing coparents remain unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Thestius of AetoliaSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Children in alternative accounts
- Argaeus I of Macedon: Herodotus: Macedonian royal pedigreeHerodotus, Histories 8.139 (primary)
- Philip I of Macedon: Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestrySatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Relations
- father (dynastic pedigree): TyrimmasNamed parent in the Satyrus pedigree; select that account to display the claimed lineage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- child (dynastic pedigree): Philip I of MacedonNamed child in the Satyrus pedigree; this claim does not alter conventional default parentage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- child (Herodotean pedigree): Argaeus I of MacedonHerodotus, Histories 8.139 (primary)
Sources
- Macedonian dynastic founder in Herodotus. The Satyrus quotation makes him son of Tyrimmas and directly father of Philip; Herodotus places Argaeus between Perdiccas and Philip. The two parentage accounts remain separate.: Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary); Herodotus, Histories 8.139 (primary)