Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors is a single volume dual biography of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great. It was written...
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Adrian (2020). Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors. London: Head of Zeus. ISBN 978-1-78497-869-3. Green, Peter (1992). Alexander of Macedon: 356–323...
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ISBN 978-1-541-64442-7 Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors (Head of Zeus, 2020) The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (redirect from Empire of Alexander the Great)
relations with "international" cults; for example, Macedonian kings Philip III of Macedon and Alexander IV of Macedon made votive offerings to the internationally...
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336 BC, Philip II was assassinated by the captain of his bodyguards, Pausanias of Orestis. Philip's son, and previously designated heir, Alexander, was proclaimed...
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Alexander was born in 356 BC, the same year as Philip's racehorse won at the Olympic Games. During 356 BC, Philip conquered the town of Crenides and changed...
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of Philip II during the late Classical period (480–336 BC). These bureaucratic organizations evolved in complexity under his successor Alexander the...
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the order of succession. While the infantry supported Alexander the Great's half-brother Philip III (who had some unknown cognitive disability present...
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List of English monarchs (redirect from Kings of England and France)
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon...
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around 650 BC. Amyntas I and his son Alexander I are the earliest kings for which we have any reliable historical information, and even then, only in the...
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Diadochi (redirect from Successors of Alexander)
Alexandrine and Hellenistic Ages, beginning with Alexander. Philip had married a woman who changed her name to Olympias to honor the coincidence of Philip's victory...
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Ptolemy II, and Philip V but were also often ruled by their own kings. The Thracians and Agrianes were widely used by Alexander as peltasts and light cavalry...
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with the biblical and historical kings of the Land of Israel—Abimelech of Sichem, the three kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and those of its successor...
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original and covers not only Philip's reign, but also the history of Macedon before him, the exploits of Philip's son, Alexander the Great, and his diadochi...
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in 317 BC. He was a son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa, and thus an elder half-brother of Alexander the Great. Named Arrhidaeus at...
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Antipater (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
regent of all of Alexander the Great's Empire at the Partition of Triparadisus. He brought the two kings, Philip III Arrhidaeus and Alexander IV, back to Macedon...
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Ptolemy I Soter (category Historians who accompanied Alexander the Great)
he was appointed satrap of Egypt, under the nominal kings Philip III and the infant Alexander IV; the former satrap, the Greek Cleomenes, stayed on...
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Monophthalmus, a general and successor of Alexander the Great, the dynasty first came to power after the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC and ruled much of Hellenistic...
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public library membership required) Bates, David (2001). William the Conqueror. Kings and Queens of Medieval England. Stroud, UK: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-1980-3...
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Paeonia (kingdom) (redirect from List of Paionian kings)
355–354 BC, Philip II of Macedon took advantage of the death of King Agis of Paeonia and campaigned against its northern neighbor in order to conquer it. Subsequently...
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Olympias (category Wives of Philip II of Macedon)
of Epirus, the sister of Alexander I of Epirus, the fourth wife of Philip II, the king of Macedonia and the mother of Alexander the Great. She was extremely...
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Dhana Nanda (category Kings of Magadha)
names 9 Nanda kings, who were all brothers, and ruled in succession for a total of 22 years. The first of these kings was Ugrasena, and the last was Dhana...
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Perdiccas (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
Alexander's vast empire, ruling on behalf of Alexander's intellectually disabled heir, King Philip III Arrhidaeus and his infant son, King Alexander IV...
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Cleopatra of Macedon (category Family of Alexander the Great)
princess and later queen regent of Epirus. The daughter of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus, she was the only full sibling of Alexander the Great...
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Nanda dynasty (section Nanda kings)
Publication Society. Ian Worthington (2014). By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire. Oxford University Press...
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Seleucus I Nicator (category Royal pages of Alexander the Great)
while Alexander's physically and mentally disabled half-brother Arrhidaeus was chosen as the next king under the name Philip III of Macedon. Alexander's unborn...
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obverse, and a Pegasus in a double linear square on the reverse. It is unclear whether or not the Laeaeans were conquered by Philip II or Alexander the Great...
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Argead dynasty (category States and territories established in the 9th century BC)
Macedonian states. The family's most celebrated members were Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, under whose leadership the kingdom of Macedonia...
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Porus (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great)
a mad person by Olympias. Philip marries Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, and denies Alexander the throne, saying that his and Cleopatra's son will be his...
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Antigonus I Monophthalmus (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
served under Philip II of Macedon. He took part in Alexander's invasion of Achaemenid Persia and was named satrap of Phrygia. After Alexander's death in 323...
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