[122] reckons that Perdiccas was the first King of Macedon; later writers, as Livy, Pausanias and Suidas, make Caranus the first King:  Justin calls Perdiccas the Sucessor of Caranus; and Solinus saith that Perdiccas succeeded Caranus; and was the first that obtained the name of King.  It’s probable that Caranus and Perdiccas were contemporaries, and fled about the same time from Phidon, and at first erected small principalities in Macedonia, which, after the death of Caranus, became one under Perdiccas. Herodotus [123] tells us, that after Perdiccas Reigned Araeus, or Argaeus, Philip, AEropus, Alcetas, Amyntas, and Alexander, successively. Alexander was contemporary to Xerxes King of Persia, and died An. 4.  Olymp. 79, and was succeeded by Perdiccas, and he by his son Archelaus:  and Thucydides [124] tells us that there were eight Kings of Macedon before this Archelaus:  now by reckoning above forty years a-piece to these Kings, Chronologers have made Phidon and Caranus older than the Olympiads; whereas if we should reckon their Reigns at about 18 or 20 years a-piece one with another, the first seven Reigns counted backwards from the death of this Alexander, will place the dominion of Phidon, and the beginning of the Kingdom of Macedon under Perdiccas and Caranus, upon the 46th or 47th Olympiad, or thereabout.  It could scarce be earlier, because Leocides the son of Phidon, and Megacles the son of Alcmaeon, at one and the same time courted Agarista, the daughter of Clisthenes King of Sicyon, as Herodotus [125] tells us; and the Amphictyons, by the advice of Solon, made Alcmaeon, and Clisthenes, and Eurolycus King of Thessaly, commanders of their army, in their war against Cirrha; and the Cirrheans were conquered An. 2.  Olymp. 47. according to the Marbles. Phidon therefore and his brother Caranus were contemporary to Solon, Alcmaeon, Clisthenes, and Eurolycus, and flourished about the 48th and 49th Olympiads.  They were also contemporary in their later days to Croesus; for Solon conversed with Croesus, and Alcmaeon entertained and conducted the messengers whom Croesus sent to consult the Oracle at Delphi, An. 1.  Olymp. 56. according to the Marbles, and was sent for by Croesus, and rewarded with much riches.