There is an interesting footnote to the story of Philip II. In 1977, an excavation was conducted at the ancient city of Aigai, the traditional capital of Macedonia, located near the modern city of Vergina. There, they found the tomb of Philip II. It has many well-preserved artifacts and ...
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Philip II of MacedoniaThe aim of this report is to present the ophthalmic wound of King Philip II of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great. From a series of ancient literary and historical sources, a number of archaeological finds, and the paleopathological remains in the supposed tomb of ...
(65) When these facts became known at Rome, they sent Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, the son of Aemilius Paullus (who had conquered Perseus, the king of Macedonia), to Iberia, having given him power to levy an army. As Carthage and Greece had only recently been conquere...
opens a narrow cleft between the lands. But on the eastern corner the land is connected with the frontiers of Macedonia by a steep and narrow pass, which is called Akontisma. Next to this is the posting-station of Arethusa, in ...
Philip II became Macedonia's leader in 359, and was officially its king by 357. He used skilled military and diplomatic tactics to expand his country's territory and influence, and ended up dominating almost of all of his neighboring Greek city-states. He was assassinated in July 336, at ...
. . After Alexander’s death, Lysimachos [the Macedonian] reigned over those Thracians bordering on Macedonia over whom Alexander and Philip before him had ruled. These Thracians are probably just a small portion of the Thracians, because no single people (eth...
Philip II: Media king of Macedonia Share Images Philip II Bust, tentatively identified as Philip II of Macedonia, mid-4th century bce;... © Richard Mortel (CC BY 2.0) Macedonian battle formation The battle formation developed by Macedonian King Philip II and his son Alexander... ...
king (359BC-336BC),Macedonia House / Dynasty: Argead dynasty Show More lion of ChaeroneaFunerary statue erected to mark the common tomb of more than 250 members of the Sacred Band of Thebes, killed in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338bce. ...
Battle of Chaeronea, (August 338 bce), battle in Boeotia, central Greece, in which Philip II of Macedonia defeated a coalition of Greek city-states led by Thebes and Athens. The victory, partly credited to Philip’s 18-year-old son Alexander the Great, cemented the Macedonian hegemony in...