After the Peloponnesian War, a defeated Athens became a second level power. The Greek cities continued their usual pattern of fighting each other under various coalitions, with at first Sparta dominant, then Thebes which defeated it. Persia intervened, imposing the King's Peace to stop the fighting spilling over into its territories.
This fighting allowed the rise of Macedonia in the background. Philip II was able to secure his borders and consolidate his power in northern Greece and then turn his attention to unifying Greece for the campaign against Persia.
As the eminent J. B. Bury Writes:
"As the hegemony or first place among Greek states had passed successively from Athens to Sparta, and to Thebes, so now it passed to Macedon. The statement that Greek liberty perished on the plain of Chaeronea is as true or as false as that it perished on the field of Leuctra or the strand of the Goat's River. Whenever a Greek state became supreme, that supremacy entailed the depression of some states and the dependency or subjection of others. Athens was reduced to a secondary place by Macedon, and Thebes fared still worse; but we must not forget what Sparta, in the day of her triumph, did to Athens, or the more evil things which Thebes proposed".
Alexander the Great took up the throne of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia because he was King Philip's II son.
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Alexander the great of King Philip 2 of Macedonia. In Classical Greece.
The king of Macedonia in 356 BC was Filippos B known as Philip II. Philip II was a Greek King of the Argead Dynasty from Argos in the Peloponnese that founded Macedonia.
Alexander the Ggreat
Philip II of Macedonia was a Greek king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia in northern Greece and the father of Alexander the Great.
yes. Philip II was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, on the northern Greek peninsula.
Philip II was born in 382 B.C. In Pella, the capital of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia.
Alexander and Philip came from Macedonia.
Philip was crowned king of Macedonia when he was 20.
KIng Philip II king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, died in the year 336 B.C.E.
Philip II of Macedonia
336 b.C.
Philip of Macedonia.
Philip was a king of Macedonia and a military leader. He was also the father of Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great took up the throne of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia because he was King Philip's II son.
King Philip II of Macedonia.