Philip II of Macedon: A Life from the Ancient Sources.

Canadian Journal of History | August 1, 1993| | Copyright

Philip Il of Macedon (382-336 B.C.), conqueror of Greece and founder of the Macedonian empire, is best known to the modern world as the father of Alexander the Great. This is partly because his achievement was eclipsed by the accomplishment of his son, but is no less attributable, as Bradford maintains, to the fact that "no ancient biography of Philip has survived, nor has any substantial history of the period" (xiv), though this evaluation is rather unfair to Diodorus of Sicily, who provides a fairly coherent narrative in his sixteenth book. This lack does not reflect the ...

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