• 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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    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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    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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    the Wars of the Diadochi. Alexander assumed kingship over ancient Macedonia following the assassination of his father, Philip II (r. 359–336 BC). During...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    and Hellenistic Ages, beginning with Alexander. Philip II had married a woman who changed her name to Olympias to honor the coincidence of Philip's victory...
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  • begins in Estonia. May 4 – St. George's Night Uprising: The "Four Estonian kings" are murdered, at the negotiations with the Livonian Order. August 15 –...
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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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    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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    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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    Seleucid Empire (category States and territories established in the 4th century BC)
    Syrian kings, the kings of Syria or of the Syrians, the kings descended from Seleucus Nicator, the kings of Asia, and other designations. Alexander, who...
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    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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    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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    Antigonid dynasty (category States and territories disestablished in the 2nd century BC)
    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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    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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    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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    (paralabein) to the satrapies, and obey the king and Perdiccas. Alexander and Philip before him had not merely been kings, they were "leaders" (hegemones)...
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    rapid disintegration of the empire. Alexander did not assume the former Achaemenid royal title of 'King of Kings'. His main royal title, appearing on...
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    Eumenes (category Generals of Philip II of Macedon)
    Anson 2015, p. 132. Philip III and Alexander IV had accompanied Perdiccas as he moved into Egypt. With Perdiccas' death, the two kings passed into the hands...
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  • Meda of Odessos (category Wives of Philip II of Macedon)
    suicide so that she would follow Philip to Hades. The people of Macedonia, who were not used to such honours to their kings by their consorts, buried her...
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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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    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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    the temple of Sarapis at Thessaloniki, while Macedonian kings Philip III of Macedon and Alexander IV of Macedon made votive offerings to the internationally...
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