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Birth in Macedonia, the son of king Philip ll
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His first task was to organize a good, competent, disciplined and numerous army, capable of dealing with the greatest people of that known world, able to dominate him, as he did, over two centuries. Philip prepared the army not with mercenaries, but with his subjects, for the subsequent triumph of Alexander the Great, just as Gaius Mario prepared in Rome the army that would make Caesar triumph
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was a Roman politician and military, named third founder of Rome by his military successes.
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was a Roman-military leader and politician of the late-republican era.
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was fought between the armies of Thebes and Phocis by the control of Delphi. Compared with the Second Holy War, it was longer, more bitter and more violent.
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His expansionist ideas of Macedonia and his military capacity soon led him to great success. He immediately settled the power of the Macedonian monarchy both inside and outside its borders. In the interior, he ended the suitors who saw him as a usurper and dominated the princes of the high regions
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was king of Macedonia from 359 a. C. until his death. It was the father of Alexander the Great, and it is possible that also of Ptolemy I Sóter, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
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was the chief wife of King Philip II of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great. She was daughter of Neoptólemo I of Epiro, king of Molosia, in the region of Epiro to the northwest of present Greece.
