Aeropus II of Macedon (), king of Macedonia, son of Perdiccas II, was guardian during the minority of his king and kinsman, Orestes, with whom he reigned for some years after 399 BC.
The first four years of this time he reigned jointly with Orestes, whom he murdered, and the remainder alone.
After his death by illness, he was eventually succeeded by his son Pausanias., citing Theopompus, who wrote within 85 years of these events.
An alternative historiographic tradition records that Archelaus II of Macedon, perhaps the brother of Orestes, succeeded Aeropus for one year before Pausanias deposed him., writing 700 years afterwards.
In the surviving Armenian translation, Eusebius's commentary states that the Pausanias succession tradition is not as reputable as the Archelaus II succession tradition, and his historical tables reflect this.
However, Eusebius remains through the Armenian and Jerome's Latin translations the sole witness of the Archelaus II tradition in antiquity, remote as he is from the events described.
Later Byzantine and Latin chroniclers follow his historical tables.Dexippus, ap.
George Syncellus p. 263, a.
Two traditions relate how Aeropus was overawed by either the insolence.
Repeated in .
Plutarch does not name Aeropus.
or the stratagems of the Lacedaemonian king Agesilaus, allowing his armies free passage through Macedonia after their campaign in Asia.
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