PERDICCAS, son of Orontes, a distinguished Macedonian general under Philip and Alexander the Great, and regent of the empire from the death of the latter till he perished in a mutiny in 321 b.c. See Macedonian Empire, vol. xv. p. 142, and Persia, infra, p. 585.

The same name was borne by three kings of Macedonia: Perdiccas I., whom Herodotus calls the founder of the monarchy of Macedon; Perdiccas II., the enemy of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (died c. 414 b.c. ); and Perdiccas III. (died 359 b.c.).