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5 days ago · In the 4th century BC, a military revolution occurred in ancient Greece that would change the face of warfare. At its center was Philip II, king of Macedonia from 359 to 336 BC. Through a sweeping program of reform, he transformed a feudal levy into the most sophisticated army of the age.
5 days ago · Flexing its growing might, Rome defeated the Macedonian king Philip V in the Second Macedonian War, ending in the decisive Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BC. While allowing Philip to keep his throne, the Romans greatly reduced Macedonian power and made the kingdom a virtual client state.
4 days ago · Philip II was a king of Ancient Macedon and a conqueror of Ancient Greece. The creator of a highly successful army, he is perhaps most well-known as being the father of Alexander the Great. Philip was both in 383 B.C. or 382 B.C., the youngest of three sons of King Amyntas III of Macedon and a woman named Eurydice.
5 days ago · An Amazon of Macedon. The theory that Tomb II belongs to Philip II and his daughter Cynnane has gained widespread acceptance among archaeologists and historians. Not only does it fit the forensic evidence, but it also sheds light on the little-known history of warrior women in ancient Macedon.
22 hours ago · His father, King Philip II of Macedon, was an astute ruler and military strategist, which undoubtedly influenced Alexander’s development. Under the tutelage of the famed philosopher Aristotle, Alexander was exposed to a vast array of knowledge, from philosophy and science to literature and medicine.
2 days ago · An opportunity was afforded for this by the publication in Madrid in 1886 and subsequently under subsidy from the Spanish Government of volumes 87, 89, 90, 91 and 92 of the "Documentos ineditos para la historia de Espaa" containing the correspondence of Philip II. with his Ambassadors at the court of England from 1558 to 1584.
4 days ago · At the same time, King Philip II of Macedon was organizing an invasion of Asia Minor, in retaliation for actions that the invading Persian armies of Darius the Great and Xerxes the Gerat had taken 150 years before. Philip was killed before he could start the invasion, and his young son Alexander took the reins of both the kingdom and the ...
