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http://www.macedonia.se/en/Load/67/lyncus_euriydike/ Eurydike, the mother of king Philip II was a Lyncestian princess, born in Lyncus at the village of Gorenci, around 410 BC. She was “Arrhabaeus’s daughter’s daughter and the daughter of Sirrhas”. When Strabo (64BC – 24 AD) gave the name of the founder of the Kingdom of Lyncus as Arrhabaues then he also added a piece of Bacchiad genealogy. We learn from Aristotle (384-322 BC) that king Archelaus in 400-399 BC was hard pressed in a war against Sirrhas and Arrhabaeus, the rulers of the royal house of Lyncus. The mysterious Sirrhas actually happened to be a brother of Arrhabaeus, who married his brothers daughter, the mother of Eurydike, an act of endogamy that was a common practice at that time.

Strabo considered Pelagonia, as well as Lyncestis, a division of Upper Macedonia, but as Stobi is described by other authors sometimes as a city of Paeonia, and sometimes of Pelagonia, as Stymbara, another important place on this frontier of regal Macedonia is stated by some as belonging to Deuriopus, and by others to Pelagonia, and as Bryanium, placed by Strabo in Deuriopus, was near the passes leading into Eordaea, and consequently in Lyncestis, it is evident that no exact definition of these districts prevailed, at least among the ancient writers whose works have reached us. Lyncestis, although originally a part of Paeonia, having become a separate kingdom, which was annexed to Macedonia as early as the reign of Philip, son of Amyntas, may, with reference to a later period, be ascribed to Upper Macedonia; at the same time that all beyond it, to the sources of the Erigon, was still a portion of Paeonia, the whole of which, however, was united to regal Macedonia before the Macedonic wars of Rome.