Aeropus
(Ἀέροπος).
1. The brother of Perdiccas, who was the first king of Macedonia of the family of Temenus. (Hdt. 8.137.)
2. King of Macedonia, the son of Philip I., the great-grandson of Perdiccas, the first king, and the father of Alcetas. (Hdt. 3.139.)
3. II. King of Macedonia, guardian of Orestes, the son of Archellaus, reigned nearly six years from B. C. 399. The first four years of this time he reigned jointly with Orestes, and the remainder alone. He was succeeded by his son Pausanias. (Diod. 14.37, 84; Dexippus, apud Syncell. p. 263a.; comp. Polyaen. 2.1.17.)
AEROPUS a mountain in Greek Illyria, on the river Aous, and opposite to Mount Asnaus. Aeropus probably corresponds to Trebusín, and Asnaus to Nemértzika. (Liv. 32.5; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 1. p. 389.)
- a descendant of Temenus,: Hdt. 8.137
- Paus. 8.44.7ff.
- Paus. 8.5.1
- king of Macedonia: Hdt. 8.139