List of ancient Macedonians in epigraphy
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Macedon
Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paeonia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south....

ians, attested in epigraphy
Epigraphy
Epigraphy Epigraphy Epigraphy (from the , literally "on-writing", is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; that is, the science of identifying the graphemes and of classifying their use as to cultural context and date, elucidating their meaning and assessing what conclusions can be...

, for reported ones in classical sources, see list of ancient Macedonians

Attica (ca. 436 bc)

The names occur also in the second decree below
  • Aeropos  son of Philippos
  • Agelaos son of Alketes
  • Alketas
    Alcetas II of Macedon
    Alcetas II was the king of Macedon.- Biography :Alcetas was the eldest son of Alexander I and unknown queen; a grandson of Amyntas I and Eurydice. He became king of Macedon following the death of his father in 454 BC. His brothers were Perdiccas II and Prince Philip. He was known for his alcohol...

      son of Alexandros I (and one Alexandros son of Alketes)
  • Archelas son of Perdikkas II (Archelaus I of Macedon
    Archelaus I of Macedon
    Archelaus I was a king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC. He was a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state administration, the military, and commerce. By the time that he died, Archelaus had succeeded in converting Macedon into a significantly stronger power...

    )
  • Menelaos son of Alexandros
  • Perdikkas son of Alexandros I (Perdiccas II  the king)

Attica (ca. 415 BC)

  • Adimos hapax as Adimos, always Adymos
  • Alexandros son of Pantaponos
  • Agathon
  • Agerros son of Philippos
  • Antigenes
  • Antiochos termed as basileus
    Basileus
    Basileus is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs in history. It is perhaps best known in English as a title used by the Byzantine Emperors, but also has a longer history of use for persons of authority and sovereigns in ancient Greece, as well as for the kings of...

     king , presumably of Orestians
  • Arrabaios Arrhabaeus the king of Lyncestis
  • Attakinos
  • Autannios
  • Bordinos
  • Botres
  • Boukris
  • Byrginos son of Kraston
  • Dadinos
  • Derdas
    Derdas
    Derdas was archon of Elimiotis during the time of Philip II of Macedon. His daughter, Phila, married Philip. He had two sons, Derdas and Machatas. Machatas was father of Machatas, Harpalus and Philip, who became the satrap of India. In 380 BC, Derdas and King Amyntas of Macedon supported the...

     
  • Dirbeas
  • Etharos
  • Eulandros
  • Eurylochos
  • Gaiteas
  • Idatas
  • Kallias
  • Kallimachos
  • Kleandros
  • Kratennas
  • Korrabos
  • Korratas
  • Lykaios
  • Limnaios
  • Meleagros
  • Misgon
  • Neoptolemos
  • Nikandros
  • Nomenios
  • Pausanias son of Machetas (Machatas
    Machatas
    Machatas may refer to:*Machatas of Elimeia an upper Macedonian prince early 4th c.BC*Machatas of Europos an upper Macedonian proxenos of Delphians late 4th c.BC*Machatas from Acarnania*Machatas of Aetolia ambassador 3rd c.BC...

    )
  • Stadmeas

Amphipolis
Amphipolis
Amphipolis was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia. It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea. Founded in...

  (352-350 BC)

sale deed of a house
  • Antipatros son of Kleinias seller
  • Aratos buyer
  • Arogomachos witness
  • Damon neighbour
  • Dionyzios witness
  • Dynnichos neighbour
  • Garreskios witness
  • Hermagoras priest
  • Hipottas guarantor
  • Laandrichos seller
  • Polyainos witness
  • Philotas witness
  • Spargis epistates
    Epistates
    An epistates in ancient Greece was any sort of superintendent or overseer. In Hellenistic kingdoms generally, an epistates is always connected with a subject district , where the epistates, a resident representative, exercised control and collected taxes on behalf of the king.-Military use:In...

     chairman

Kalindoia
Kalindoia
Kalindoia was an ancient Bottiaean city in Mygdonia .Kalindoia is first reported in the Athenian-Bottiaean alliance of 422 BC and later in the Epidaurian list of Theorodokoi of 360/59 BC. The name of Theodorokos was Pausanias, possibly the same as Pausanias, the pretender to the Macedonian...

 decree (ca.335-305 BC)

  • Agathanor
    Agathanor
    *Agathanor son of Agathon was the Macedonian archpriest of Asclepius, mentioned in the decree of Kalindoia.*Agathanor son of Thrasycles from Beroea, was also a Macedonian priest of Apollo, Asclepius and Hygieia.-References:*...

      son of Agathon priest
  • Amerias son of Kydias
  • Antigonos son of Menandros
  • Antimenon son of Menandros
  • Antiphanes son of Soson
  • Glaukias son of Dabreias
  • Gydias son of Krithon
  • Gylis son of Eurytias
  • Harpalos son of Pha[— — —]
  • Hegesippos son of Nikoxenos
  • Ikkotas son of Gyrtos
  • Kallias son of Apollonios
  • Kanoun son of Assa[.]mikos
  • Kertimmas son of Krithon
  • Kratippos son of Eurytias
  • Lykourgos son of Nikanor
  • Menelaos son of Menandros
  • Myas son of Philiskos or Philistos
  • Nikanor son of Nikon and Nikanor son of Sosos
  • Parmenion son of Al[— — —]
  • Pason son of Skythas
  • Perdikkas son of Ammadiskos
  • Philagros son of Menandros
  • Philotas son of Leonidas
  • Philoxenos son of E[— — —]
  • Ptolemmas son of M..
  • Sibras son of Herodoros
  • Troilos son of Antigonos
  • Waddys or Gaddys son of Astion

Lete (ca. 350-300 BC)

  • Lysandros son of Amyntas and
  • Lyson son of Pleistiades or Nausiades along with their hetairoi

  • Adaios
  • Agestratos
  • Alketas
  • Antigonos
  • Antiphilos
  • Arrabaios
  • Attalos
  • Attinas
  • Demetrios
  • Epigonos
  • Epikrates
  • Epimenes
  • Euthymides
  • Iollas
  • Lysanias
  • Menandros
  • Polemon
  • Ptolemaios
  • Sirras
  • Sopatros

Mygdonia

  • Diogenes
  • Epanaros
  • Hosperos the father of them
  • Iobiles
  • Kriton
  • Menon

Pella

  • Dagina
  • Dionysophon
  • Makron
  • Thetima

Pydna
Pydna
Pydna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern part of Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pydna-Kolindros, of which it is a...

  • Agesias
  • Aiolos
  • Alkimos
  • Amdokos
  • Amerynkas
  • Amyntas
  • Amyntichos
  • Amyntor
  • Antiphila
  • Arisstion
  • Arybbas
  • Asandros
  • Boulona
  • Chorotimas
  • Euboula
  • Euippas
  • Euphanios
  • Euthydikos
  • Diognetos
  • Dionysios
  • Doros
  • Galestas
  • Harpalos
  • Hippias
  • Hellan
  • Kallias
  • Kleandros
  • Krateuas
  • Ktolemmas
  • Kyllis[-]
  • Limnaios
  • Lokros
  • Lynkoritas
  • Lysidamos
  • Menyllos
  • Mikalinos
  • Nautas
  • Nikandros
  • Nikonidas
  • Nikolaos
  • Nikylla
  • Oroidyos
  • Pauratas
  • Pausanias
  • Philan
  • Philippos
  • Philonychos
  • Polemokrates
  • Polykasta
  • Protocharis
  • Simmias
  • Sitalkas
  • Stratonika
  • Tarrias
  • Theopropos
  • Theutimos
  • Thrason
  • Timokrates
  • Trochas

Theorodokoi
Theorodokoi
Theorodokoi in Ancient Greece were sacred envoy-receivers, whose duty was to host and assist the Theoroi "viewers" before Panhellenic Games and Festivals...

  • Perdiccas, possibly Perdiccas III of Macedon
    Perdiccas III of Macedon
    Perdiccas III was king of Macedonia from 368 to 359 BC, succeeding his brother Alexander II.Son of Amyntas III and Eurydice, he was underage when Alexander II was killed by Ptolemy of Aloros, who then ruled as regent. In 365, Perdiccas killed Ptolemy and assumed government.Of the reign of...

      ~365-311 BC Epidaurian
  • Pausanias of Kalindoia
    Kalindoia
    Kalindoia was an ancient Bottiaean city in Mygdonia .Kalindoia is first reported in the Athenian-Bottiaean alliance of 422 BC and later in the Epidaurian list of Theorodokoi of 360/59 BC. The name of Theodorokos was Pausanias, possibly the same as Pausanias, the pretender to the Macedonian...

  • Hadymos and Seleukos son of Argaios

Naopoioi

Naopoios (Temple-builder), an elected Archon
Archon
Archon is a Greek word that means "ruler" or "lord", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem ἀρχ-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as monarch, hierarchy, and anarchy.- Ancient Greece :In ancient Greece the...

 by Hieromnemones
Amphictyonic League
In the Archaic period of ancient Greece, an amphictyony , a "league of neighbors", or Amphictyonic League was an ancient association of Greek tribes formed in the dim past, before the rise of the Greek polis...

, responsible for restoring the temple of Apollo in Delphi
Delphi
Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god...

  • Philippus
  • Timanoridas
    Timanoridas
    Timanoridas may refer to:*Timanoridas of Corinth, purchaser of Neaira*Timanoridas, an ancient Macedonian...

     (son of Cordypion) ~361-343 BC
  • Leon (son of Hegesander) 331 BC

500 - 400 BC

  • Aristotima of Sôsos Dion
    Dion, Greece
    Dion or Dio is a village and a former municipality in the Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Dio-Olympos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is best known for its archaeological site and archaeological museum. Zeus was honored at...

     ca. 400 BC
  • Attya Aiane ca. 450-400 BC
  • Apakos owner's signature in inscribed bronze strigil
    Strigil
    A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available. First perfumed oil was applied to the skin, and then it would be scraped off, along with the dirt. For wealthier people, this process was often...

    . Aiane ca. 500-475 BC.
  • Arkaps (Arkapos eria, wools of Arkaps) Aiane ca. 450BC
  • Eugeneia daughter of Xenon Pella ca. 400 BC
  • Kleiona Aiane ca. 500-450 BC
  • Machatas
    Machatas
    Machatas may refer to:*Machatas of Elimeia an upper Macedonian prince early 4th c.BC*Machatas of Europos an upper Macedonian proxenos of Delphians late 4th c.BC*Machatas from Acarnania*Machatas of Aetolia ambassador 3rd c.BC...

      owner's inscription, incised after firing. Attic kylix sherd
    Sherd
    In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well....

    . Eordaea
    Eordaea
    This article is based on the article Eordea Province on the English Wikipedia, accessed on 13 September 2011.Eordeae was an ancient kingdom and later administrative unit of Ancient Macedonia...

      early 5th c.BC
  • Peperias Aigai
    Vergina
    Vergina is a small town in northern Greece, located in the peripheral unit of Imathia, Central Macedonia. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Veroia, of which it is a municipal unit...

     early 5th c.BC
  • Pythagore of Aristokrates , Aristobole Pella stoichedon
    Stoichedon
    The stoichedon style of epigraphy was the practice of engraving ancient Greek inscriptions in capitals such that the letters were aligned vertically as well as horizontally...

     ca.500-450
  • Theotimos son of Parmenon Dion - late 5th c. BC
  • Xanthos son of Amadika and Demetrios Pella ca. 400 BC
  • Xenariste of Boulagoras. Pella western necropolis
    Necropolis
    A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The word comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead"...

     ca. 400 BC
  • Zôbia Pella epitaph ca. 400 BC

400 - 300 BC

  • Andreas son of Andrôn from Osbe
    Osbe
    Osbe was an ancient town in North Chalcidice,probably between Mygdonia,Mounts Cholomon, Cissus and Bottike. It was later incorporated in Thessalonica, . Its only known citizen is Andreas, Andronos Osbaios ca. 400-350 BC who died in Beroea ....

    . Beroia epitaph ca. 400-350 BC
  • Berenika Lete ca. 350 BC priestess of Demetra, ritually associated with Stratto,Melis and Lysidika
  • Berennô of Philistos Aigai ca. 350 BC
  • Bila of Brateadas Aigai ca. 350-300 BC
  • Dexios from Heraclea (Pieria). Pella ca. 400-350 BC
  • Eurydika
    Eurydice II of Macedon
    Eurydice was an ancient Macedonian queen, wife of king Amyntas III of Macedon.She was the daughter of Sirras, an Illyrian noble based in Lyncestis, Upper Macedonia...

      daughter of Sirras. Aigai ca. 350-300 BC
  • Harpalos son of Peucolaos ca. 350 BC Aigai
  • Phylomaga ca. 350-300 BC Methoni, Pieria
    Methoni, Pieria
    Methoni is a village and a former municipality in Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pydna-Kolindros, of which it is a municipal unit...

     ca. 350-300 BC
  • Paton son of Laandros Aigai ca. 350-325 BC
  • Sabattaras hapax , father of proxenos Machatas
    Machatas of Europos
    Machatas, son of Sabattaras from Europos, was a Macedonian proxenos of Delphians in late 4th century BC. As the inscription says: "the Delphians gave proxenia, euergesia , promanteia , proedria , prodikia to Machatas and his descendants,...

  • Sillis Aigai ca. 350 BC
  • Zeidymarchis Pella — 4th/3rd c. BC

300-200 BC

  • Antigonus (son of Callas)
    Antigonus (son of Callas)
    Antigonos of Callas was an ancient Macedonian hetairos from Amphipolis, known through an inscription with a Homeric-style epigram of about 300-275 BC, where he commemorates his win in Hoplitodromos at Heraclean games after the Conquest of Tyrus 332-331 BC. Alexander had dreamt that Heracles...

     hetairos from Amphipolis, commemorates his victory in hoplite racing
    Hoplitodromos
    The hoplitodromos or hoplitodromia was an ancient foot race, part of the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games...

     at Heraclean games after the Conquest of Tyrus.
  • Ado termed as Makesta, Maketia (Macedonian woman) pilgrim in Delos
    Delos
    The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece...

     302,296 BC
  • Attylos son of Menandros Beroia 4th/3rd c. BC
  • Chartas son of Nikanor , hunter Beroia 248 BC
  • Erginus (son of Simylus) from Cassandreia citharede winner in Soteria (festival)
    Soteria (festival)
    The Soteria were ancient festivals held in many Greek cities from the 3rd century BC. They honoured the saviour of a danger and could be dedicated to all the gods or only one . Heroic men regarded as deliverers were sometimes associated to the divinities, e.g. Aratus at Sicyon.The most famous...

      c.260 BC
  • _ _ (son of Callistratus) from Philippi
    Philippi
    Philippi was a city in eastern Macedonia, established by Philip II in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest...

      Dancer winner in Soteria (festival)
    Soteria (festival)
    The Soteria were ancient festivals held in many Greek cities from the 3rd century BC. They honoured the saviour of a danger and could be dedicated to all the gods or only one . Heroic men regarded as deliverers were sometimes associated to the divinities, e.g. Aratus at Sicyon.The most famous...

      ~250 BC
  • Matero Bisaltia
    Bisaltia
    Bisaltia or Bisaltica was an ancient region extending from the river Strymon and Lake Cercinitis on the east to Crestonia on the west. The eponymous inhabitants, known as the Bisaltae, were a Thracian people. The most important town in Bisaltia was the Greek city of Argilus...

     — Argilos 3rd/2nd c. BC

200-100 BC

  • Bilos Beroia 2nd c. BC
  • Biloitos Beroia — 2nd/1st c. BC
  • Boulomaga Seleucid or Ptolemaic pilgrim in Delos
    Delos
    The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece...

     185 BC
    • Eulaios father of Lamaga
    • Lamaga wife
    • Laommas husband
    • Olympichos child. Pydna
      Pydna
      Pydna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a small town and a former municipality in the northeastern part of Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pydna-Kolindros, of which it is a...

      epitaph early 2nd c. BC.
  • Laomaga daughter of Peritos Beroia epitaph ca. 150-100 BC.
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