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Argaeus I of Macedon

Field	Value
name	Argaeus I
succession	King of Macedonia
reign	7th century BC
predecessor	Perdiccas I
successor	Philip I
spouse	unknown
issue	Philip I
dynasty	Argead
father	Perdiccas I
mother	unknown
religion	Ancient Greek religion

Argaeus (; ) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He was a member of the Argead dynasty and son of Perdiccas I. By allowing thirty years for the span of an average generation from the beginning of Archelaus' reign in 413 BC, British historian Nicholas Hammond estimated that Argaeus ruled around 623 BC.

According to Herodotus and Thucydides, Argaeus was the second king of Macedonia. However, a much later tradition records Caranus as the founder of Macedonia and therefore Argaeus as the fifth king. This unhistorical assertion is almost universally rejected by moderns scholarship as propaganda invented at the Argead court during the reign of Philip II.

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Errington, R.M.. (1974). "Macedonian 'Royal Style' and Its Historical Significance". The Journal of Hellenic Studies.
King, Carol (2010). "Macedonian Kingship and Other Political Institutions". In Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (eds.). ''A Companion to Ancient Macedonia''. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 375.
N.G.L., Hammond; Griffith, G.T. (1979). ''A History of Macedonia Volume II: 550-336 B.C''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 4.
"Herodotus, The Histories, Book 8, chapter 139, section 1".
Eder, Walter; Renger, Johannes, eds. (2006). ''Chronologies of the Ancient World: Names, Dates, and Dynasties''. Boston: Brill. pp. 188–190.
Christesen, Paul; Murray, Sarah (2010). "Macedonian Religion". In Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (eds.). ''A Companion to Ancient Macedonia''. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 432.
Greenwalt, William (1985). "The Introduction of Caranus into the Argead King List". ''Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies''. '''26''' (1): 43–49.
Hammond 1979, p. 5.
(1993). "Masks of Dionysus". Cornell University Press.
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Mark William Padilla. (1999). "Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society". Bucknell University Press.
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