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Pausanias
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Pausanias (pretender)
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας), also known as Pausanias the Pretender, was an ancient Macedonian who claimed the right the Macedonian throne around 360–359 BCE after the death of king Perdiccas III of.
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Pausanias of Macedon
Pausanias of Macedon (He likely would have been called or but this, "Pausanias the king of the Macedonians," is how Diodoros Siculus names him in Bibliotheca historica, 14.
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