Philip of Macedon Quotes
King of Macedon
Philip of Macedon was king of macedon from Greece
“At fourteen I was a hostage. At twenty-three I was a king. The difference was not luck. It was what I did every single day in between.”— Philip of Macedon
Based on Philip's years as hostage in Thebes (368-365 BC) and ascension to throne in 359 BC. His military education under Epaminondas shaped everything that followed.
The Story of Philip
The Wedding at Aigai
On an October day in 336 BC, Philip attended his daughter Cleopatra's wedding at Aigai. He walked into the theater without bodyguards to show he trusted his people. His guard Pausanias stepped forward and drove a knife into his ribs. Philip died on the stone floor of the theater. He was forty-six. His son Alexander inherited the army Philip had built, the alliances Philip had forged, and the invasion plan Philip had drawn. Everything Alexander conquered, he conquered with his father's tools.
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