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  Science Fair Projects - Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (Macedonia) (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (ruled 359 BC - 336 BC), was the 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.
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 Philip
Philip IV, Duke of Burgundy, "the Handsome" (1478–1506).
Philip IV of Spain and III of Portugal (1605–1665).
Philippe, Duke of Brabant (born 1960), heir to the throne of Belgium.
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 Philip II of Macedon
Philip II (382 BC – 336 BC), King of Macedon (359 BC – 336 BC) Olympionike, was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
Coin with likeness of Philip II Born in Pella in 382 BC, he was the youngest son of King Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice, but the deaths of his elder brothers, Kings Alexander II of Macedon and Perdiccas III of Macedon, allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC.
On November 8, 1977, Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos announced that he had found unopened the tomb of Philip II at Vergina in the prefecture of Pieria.
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 Top Literature - Alexander IV of Macedon
Alexander IV Aegus (in Greek Aλέξανδρος Aιγός; 323–309 BC) was the son of Alexander the Great and Roxana, a princess of Bactria.
While the infantry supported the baby's uncle, Philip Arrhidaeus (who was both epileptic and illegitimate), the chiliarch, or vizier Perdiccas, commander of the elite Companion cavalry, persuaded them to wait in the hope that Roxana's unborn child would be male.
Philip and Eurydice were captured and executed on December 25, 317 BC, leaving Alexander IV king, and Olympias in effective control, as she was his regent.
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 Philip - What is definition of the term - Philip ?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Philip (and alternative spellings Philipp, Philippe, Felip, Felipe, Filip, Filipe) may refer to: * Kings of Macedon: ** Philip I of Macedon (ruled 640–602 BC).
* Dukes of Burgundy: ** Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (1346–1361).
** Philip of Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant (1404–1430).
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 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.
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 Philip II Father of Alexander The Great, Silver Tetradrachm Coins
Philip II was the youngest son of King Amyntas III and Eurydice.
Philip was elected as leader (hegemon) of the army of invasion against the Persian Empire.
Philip II was the champion on the 106th Olympics, in 356 BC on single horse race (this coin).
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 Informat.io on Alexander Iv Of Macedon
Alexander IV Aegus (in Greek Aλέξανδρος Aιγός; 323–309 BC) was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great by his wife Roxana, a princess of Bactria.
When Cassander assumed in 317 BC full control of Macedon, Polyperchon was forced to flee to Epirus, followed by Roxana and her infant son.
Philip and Eurydice were captured and executed the 25 December 317 BC, leaving Alexander IV sole king and his grandmother supreme.
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 info: Philip_of_Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Philip of Macedon - King of Macedonia and conqueror of Illyria, Thrace, and Greece.
Philip of Macedon plaque Philip of Macedon was father of Alexander the Great and architect of the powerful Macedonian phalanx which later conquered the Persian Empire.
Philip of Macedon large round plaque This is an accurate enlarged reproduction of the ancient gold medallion depicting the king of Macedonia Philip II.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: King of Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cassander 306-297 BC Philip IV 297-296 BC Alexander V 296-294 BC Antipater II 296-294 BC Antigonid Dynasty
In 150 BC, a man named Andriscus claimed to be the son of Perseus, and claimed the throne of Macedon as Philip VI.
This led to the Fourth Macedonian War, in which Andriscus was defeated by the Romans, and Macedon annexed to Rome in 148 BC.
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 Amyntas IV of Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Amyntas IV was titular king of Macedonia in 359 BC and member of the Argead dynasty.
Philip II of Macedon, Perdiccas' brother, became his tutor and Regent.
Amyntas was judged dangerous enough to be a menace to Philip, who even gave him his daughter Cynane in marriage.
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 Greece and Macedon - Brunt
Philip next settled affairs in the Peloponnese to the disadvantage of Sparta and in the interest of the cities there which were his friends, because they feared Spartan power.
However, in 337 Philip's power enabled him to dictate to the whole of the Greek mainland and many of the island cities, and to organize what moderns call the League of Corinth, since it was at Corinth that the Greeks met by plenipotentiaries and concluded a new 'common peace' (cf.
In Philip lifetime it had still been possible to style the Persian king 'the common enemy of the Greeks' (Demosthenes xiv 3), but such conventional language, for a century past, had not prevented Greek cities seeking aid from him, and now it was evident that the true threat to Greek liberty came from Macedon.
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 Alexander The Great - Crystalinks
Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia and leave a Macedonian garrison in the citadel.In 336 BC, Philip was assassinated at the wedding of his daughter Cleopatra to King Alexander of Epirus.
Philip's murder was once thought to have been planned with the knowledge and involvement of Alexander or Olympias.
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 Rice's Dissertation Chapter 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Philip's ruse may have had less to do with his ships' escape than the allies' willingness to allow him to strand troops in Caria, but Rome was and had to be courted to be won.
Philip was getting ready to fight the armies that had destroyed the might of Carthage, but the island state and its navy had the courtesy neither to yield gracefully nor to allow him to recall his own forces from Asia, where they were absolutely useless in the coming Götterdämmerung with the Romans.
Philip lost both his holdings in Asia Minor and the invasion route he had so laboriously prepared, and all that was left to him of his dream of reviving his great-grandfather's naval hegemony was Demetrius's monster "sixteen,", despised, for the moment, by the Romans as nearly too big to handle.
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 Philip II of Macedon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Philip II of Macedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was assassinated while he was planning this expedition, and was succeeded by his son Alexander the Great.
Philip's tomb was discovered at Vergina, northern Greece, in 1978.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Kings of Macedon - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Macedon (also sometimes known as Macedonia) was an ancient kingdom in the present-day territory of northern Greece, inhabited by Dorian Greeks.
The Kingdom of Macedon itself soon lost direct control of these vast Asian territories, but it retained its hegemony over Greece itself until defeated by the Roman Republic in the Macedonian Wars (215 - 148 BC).
After Perseus's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, Macedon was divided into four republics under Roman domination.
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 Philip IV of Macedon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Philip IV of Macedon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He briefly succeeded his father on the throne of Macedon prior to his death.
Philip IV of Macedon, Macedonian monarchs and 297 BC deaths.
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 Macedon - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The poet Hesiod described "Macedon" as a son of Zeus and grandson of Deucalion, thus marking the land and its people as outlying tribes of the Greek world in his view.
The last Antigonid king, Perseus, was defeated in 168 BC by the Romans, who divided the country into four self-governing republics on the model of their own constitution; when this policy failed, they reorganised the territory into the province of Macedonia in 146 BC.
Macedon was divided between the Upper, mountainous regions, and the Lower regions of the Emathian Plain, including the settlements on the Thermaic Gulf.
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 Králi Macedon
Macedon (také někdy známý jako Makedonie) tvořil starověké království v dnešním území severní Řecko, obydlený polořadovkou-Hellenized lidi, kteří byli viděni Řeky sám jako blízký kin.
Království Macedon sám brzy ztratil přímou kontrolu nad těmito obrovskými Asijskýma územími, ale to udrželo jeho nadvládu nad Řeckem sám until poražený Římany v makedonských válkách (215 - 148 BC).
V 150 BC, muž jmenoval Andriscus prohlašoval, že je syn Perseus, a prohlásil trůn Macedon jak Philip Vi.
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 Cassander
He further effected an alliance with Eurydice, the ambitious wife of King Philip Arrhidaeus of Macedon.
In 310 BC/309 BC he also murdered Roxana and nominal King Alexander IV of Macedon, the wife and son of Alexander the Great, whose natural son Heracles he bribed Polyperchon to poison.
He had already connected himself with the royal family by marriage with Thessalonica, Alexander the Great's half-sister, and, having formed an alliance with Seleucus, Ptolemy and Lysimachus, against Antigonus, he became, on the defeat and death of Antigonus around 301 BC, undisputed sovereign of Macedonia.
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Philip's rival for possession of this seacoast was the distant city of Athens, with its mighty navy.
Philip was assassinated at the old Macedonian royal city of Aegae (modern Vergina), on the morning of his daughter's wedding.
Philip's new number-one wife had recently borne Philip a son, and no doubt Olympias feared this threat to Alexander's succession to the throne.
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 Alexander IV of Macedon
Alexander IV of Macedon, was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great by his wife Roxana, a princess of Bactria.
He was born in 323 BC, a few months after his father's death and was immediately declared King as co-ruler of his uncle Philip III of Macedon.
This resulted in the nomination of Regents ruling on their behalf and a number of his father's generals, now Satraps of major provinces, gaining enough power to act independently from the throne.
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 Philip of Macedon Philip II of Macedonia Biography
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.
Philip won a stunning victory in which the Scythian king Areas was killed and took 20,000 Scythian women and children as slaves.
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 Cassander
In 310 BC/309 BC he also poisoned Roxana and the nominal King Alexander IV of Macedon, respectively the wife and son of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
Philip, his eldest son, soon after coming to the throne took a wasting disease and died.
Antipatros, the next son, murdered his mother Thessalonica, daughter of Philip and Nikasepolis, accusing her of being too fond of Alexandros, the youngest son." Alexandros avenged his mother by killing his brother Antipatros, but was killed in turn by Demetrios the Besieger of Cities, son of Antigonus.
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 Philip II of Macedon: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Philip II (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (359 BC - 336 BC) Olympionike[?], was the father of Alexander the Great(Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
In 346 BC, he intervened effectively in the war between Thebes and Phocis, but his war with Athens continued intermittently.
Two years later, in 336 BC, about to embark on an invasion of Persia, Philip was assassinated.
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 Alexander IV of Macedon - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alexander IV was born in the last months of the year 323 BC, or the beginning of 322 BC.
With the assassination of Perdiccas in June 320 BC a new regent was named at the Triparadisus, in the person of Antipater.
Cassander's response was as ruthless as it was definitive: about 310 BC he secretly commanded Glaucias to assassinate Alexander and his mother, so that nobody could menace his rule; and the orders were immediately executed.
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 Philip II of Macedon
Philip II (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (359 BC - 336 BC) Olympionike, was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon.
Coin with likeness of Philip II Born in Pella in 382 BC, he was King Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice's youngest son, but the deaths of his elder brothers Kings Alexander II of Macedon and Perdiccas III of Macedon allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC.
He was originally appointed as Regent till his infant nephew King Amyntas IV of Macedon, Perdiccas' son, reached adulthood, but soon he managed to make himself king.
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