Philip II King of the Macedonians
and the rise of the Macedonian Kingdom
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos
Academy Member - National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.), Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
In the twenty-four years of Philip II’s reign Macedonia, until then a weak kingdom on the margins of the Greek world, became the most powerful state not only of Greece, but also of South-Eastern Europe. Philip trebled his kingdom; vanquished and subdued Illyrians, Paionians, Thracians and Getae; had himself elected head of the Thessalian state and succeeded in having himself recognized as the leader of the confederation of Greek states and the generalissimo of the Greek Alliance in the war against Persia. According to a contemporary historian‘Europe had never borne a man like Philip son of Amyntas’.
Key words: Macedonia, Philip II, army, political institutions
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