A great revelator of the dramatic differences that separated Upper and

Lower Macedonia and the struggle of the former for keeping their

independence was the murder of Philip at Aegae. Assassin of Philip was

Pausanias of Orestis and the Lyncestian sons of Aeropus were alleged to

have joined the conspiracy, thus were killed right afterwards as

conspirators. Actually the only victims mentioned in the sources are these

two sons of Aeropus, Arrhabeus and Heromenes, both Lyncestians and

certainly if not of royal stock, at least nobles. Obviously in case these

Lyncestians were not rivals or a threat to the throne then they certainly must

have participated in Philips murder. Anyway this is another ample evidence of the way the nobles of Upper Macedonia like

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