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	Hegemony: Philip of Macedon
		"Hegemony: Philip of Macedon" is a 3D Real Time Strategy wargame set during the reign of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great.
		The goal is to be declared Hegemon of Greece, establish a bridgehead in Asia and initiate an invasion of the Persian Empire.
		Although the basic pattern of gameplay is to build, expand and dominate, most of the states conquered must be carefully subjugated rather than destroyed, as you'll need their resources and support for the invasion of the Persian Empire.
	www.ldagames.com /hegemony (306 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Philip II, King of Macedon
		Philip II, King of Macedon (382-336 B. Philip, the father of Alexander the Great, was a Macedonian prince who spent three of his formative teenage years in Thebes as a military hostage.
		Before he could carry out this plan, Philip was slain at the celebrations held for the marriage of his former lover, Alexander of Epirus, to his daughter Cleopatra in 336 B. Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century B. E., gives an account of the event with enough sensational details to satisfy any tabloid editor.
		When Philip ignored his demand that he punish the general, Pausanias stabbed the king when he was hurrying to witness the games at his daughter's wedding.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/philip_II.html (805 words)

	Philip II of Macedon (382-336 B.C.)
		Philip's so-called League of Corinth, established in 337, was an organization designed to preserve and perpetuate a general peace (koine eirene), inaugurated when the delegates of all the states of Greece (except Sparta) and the islands swore to abide by it and to recognize Philip as president (hegemon) for this purpose.
		Philip designed a council of representatives from all the states (synedrion), which was empowered to deliberate and decide on action to be taken in the event of the peace being broken or threatened.
		Philip was wise, no doubt, to build on the foundation of the earlier practice of the Greeks themselves and also to refrain from organizing them in any permanent alliance that would have recalled too much the unpalatable experiences of the past.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/philip2.html (2669 words)

	Philip_2 of Macedon
		Philip was often passed over in twentieth century scholarship in favor of his more energetic son, Alexander, but recent archeology near Aigai (Vergina), and at other sites within ancient Macedonian territory, have revived interest in the fourth and fifth century kings, Philip in particular.
		Philip was now on call to protect Thessaly, because he was their archon, and in 346 he had another chance at the Thermopylai pass.
		Philip had created "an army which was perhpas the most powerful military force constructed before the coming of gunpowder."29 His son Alexander would show us the true dedication and training the army received by putting it to the ultimate test in Persia.
	members.tripod.com /~Kekrops/Hellenistic_Files/Philip_2.html (5051 words)

	Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography
		Philip also allowed the sons of the Macedonian nobles to receive education at the court in Pella.
		Philip won a stunning victory in which the Scythian king Areas was killed and took 20,000 Scythian women and children as slaves.
		Philip appointed himself "Commander of the Greeks", as he was already commander of the conquered Illyrians and Thracians.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/PhilipofMacedon.html (5131 words)

	Hellenistic Greece: Philip of Macedon
		Philip lived a good life in Thebes and was well-integrated into the politics and military.
		The Persian Wars still festered in the Greek memory, and the Spartan invasion of Persia in 379 BC showed Philip that it was possible to defeat the mightiest empire known to humanity.
		So in 337, Philip announced the the League would attack Persia as revenge for the wars, and in 336 he stood poised to prosecute his mighty invasion of the Persian Empire, but an assassin's sword ended his great campaign.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GREECE/PHILIP.HTM (384 words)

	Philip of Macedon
		Philip of Macedon - King of Macedonia and conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece
		Philip II was a hostage of the Greeks at Thebes, between 368 and 365 BC.
		Philip ascended on the Macedonian throne in the most difficult times; the country was virtually at the brink of collapse, its neighbors ready to put an end to its existence.
	www.ancientmacedonia.com /PhilipofMacedon.html (3378 words)

	Royalty.nu - Alexander the Great, King of Macedon
		Philip certainly seems to have believed that Alexander was his son.
		As Philip was entering the theater he was stabbed in the heart by the captain of his bodyguard, Pausanias.
		Philip's last bride had given birth to her second daughter, and Olympias is said to have had the child killed in the mother's presence before forcing the unhappy woman to hang herself.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Balkan/Alexander.html (3958 words)

	Macedonia FAQ: Philip II of Macedonia
		Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia (359-336 BC), son of Amyntas II and Eurydice was born in Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia.
		Philip's League of Corinth (337 BC) was intended to maintain and perpetuate a general peace (koine eirene); it was not a league at all, for it did not have the word symachia in it.
		Philip showed that he had never intended to put Alexander's position as crown prince in jeopardy, by taking trouble to be reconciled with Alexander.
	faq.macedonia.org /history/philip.html (2236 words)

	Macedonia for the Macedonians
		Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia (359-336 BC), was born in Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia.
		Philip allowed the sons of nobles to receive education in the court of the king.
		Philip's army was greatly outnumbered by the Athenian and Theban forces, yet his phalanxes overwhelmed the Athenians and Thebans.
	www.makedonija.info /philip.html (1292 words)

	Philip II of Macedon - Factasy
		Philip II of Macedonia ruled from 359-336BCE, laying the foundations for the military and political achievements of his son, Alexander.
		Philip introduced numerous innovations to the Macedonian army and established alliances with the Balkan peoples that provided both himself and Alexander with the organisation and resources necessary to carry out such conquests.
		Philip made several political and military innovations that contributed to the expanded power of Macedonia.
	www.factasy.com /alexander/philip.shtml (389 words)

	Philip II
		Philip II of Macedon (Macedonia) (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (ruled 359 BC - 336 BC), father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
		In 357 BC, Philip married to Epirote princess Olympias, the daughter of the king of the Molossians.
		Philip defeated an alliance of Thebans and Athenians at the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/PhilipII.html (1479 words)

	macancfi2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On his accession (perhaps initially as regent for his nephew, Amyntas) his priority was to save Macedon from dismemberment by hostile powers, poised for the kill; and from the outset he displayed a genius for compromise and intrigue.
		Nearchus of Crete, Laomedon of Mytilene and Androsthenes of Thasos, all settled at Amphipolis).
		In return Philip was appointed archon of Thessaly with its revenues and superb cavalry at his disposal.
	www.ucc.ie /staff/jprodr/macedonia/macancfi2.html (981 words)

	Philip V of Macedon
		Instead of usurping power for himself, Philip's stepfather prepared his ward to be king and even had the foresight to create a council of royal advisors for his stepson.
		Philip, who was just 23, saw this as an opportunity to make Macedonia not only the undisputed master of the whole Balkan peninsula but even of southern Italy.
		Philip V of Macedonia - short biography in Hilary Gowen's Hannibal Barca and the Punic Wars with hyperlinked summaries of Rome's first Macedonian war and second Macedonian war.
	virtualreligion.net /iho/philip_5.html (1148 words)

	Philip V of Macedon (238-179 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Philip succeeded upon Antigonus' death (summer 221) and soon won renown by supporting the Hellenic League in its war against Sparta, Aetolia, and Elis (220-217).
		In 215 Philip, allied with Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who was invading Italy (Second Punic War), attacked the Roman client states in Illyria and initiated 10 years of inconclusive warfare against Rome (First Macedonian War).
		The terms of the peace confined Philip to Macedonia; he had to surrender 1,000 talents indemnity and most of his fleet and deposit hostages, including his younger son, Demetrius, at Rome.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/philipv.html (399 words)

	History House: Philip and Pausanias
		Philip set his whole household upside down with his last vows, and it gave fodder for later Greek historians to make him look bad and embellish like crazy.
		Olympias was Philip's first wife and offended that the king might jeopardize her son's ascent to the throne.
		In Philip II of Macedon, Alfred S. Bradford claims that not only did Olympias honor Pausanias with a burial mound, but killed Cleopatra's daughter, forced Cleopatra to hang herself, and dedicated the assassin's murder weapon to the god Apollo in her own name.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/philip_macedon (1491 words)

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