Aeacides of Epirus
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Aeacides (in Greek Aιακιδης; died 313 BC) was son of Arymbas and grandson of Alcetas II. King of Epirus, succeeded to the throne on the death of his cousin Alexander, who was slain in Italy.1 Aeacides married Phthia, the daughter of Menon of Pharsalus, by whom he had the celebrated Pyrrhus and two daughters, Deidamia and Troias. In 317 BC he assisted Polyperchon in restoring Olympias and the young king Alexander IV, who was then only five years old, to Macedonia. In the following year he marched to the assistance of Olympias, who was hard pressed by Cassander; but the Epirots disliked the service, rose against Aeacides, and drove him from the kingdom. Pyrrhus, who was then only two years old, was with difficulty saved from destruction by some faithful servants. But becoming tired of the Macedonian rule, the Epirots recalled Aeacides in 313 BC; Cassander immediately sent an army against him under his brother, Philip, who conquered him the same year in two battles, in the last of which he was killed.2
References
- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, ["Aeacides"], Boston, (1867)