Alexander! Men of Macedon… we're going home.
Philip of Macedon also controlled several vassal states.
Men of Macedon we're going home.
Phillip of Macedon the father of Alexander the Great.
Alexander III of Macedon essentially founded the era of the Hellenistic world.
Alexander, the son of Philip of Macedon, became king in 336 b. c.
Alexander the Great and the kings of Macedon also claimed to be descended from Heracles.
By the end, Philip was victorious and the Illyrians were forced to pay Macedon tribute.
The future wife of Macedon was a captive, in which he fell in love at first sight.
Most commonly known as Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon was born on July 21, 356 BCE.
Alexander fled Macedon with his mother, dropping her off with her brother,
King Alexander I of Epirus in Dodona,
News of Philip's death roused many states into revolt, including Thebes, Athens, Thessaly,
and the Thracian tribes north of Macedon.
It could be because Phillip had a
Greek name(the same name as Phillip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great).
News of Philip's death roused many states into revolt, including Thebes, Athens, Thessaly,
and the Thracian tribes to the north of Macedon.
He was also the only one with the marble
balls big enough to stand up to Philip of Macedon, who, by the way, planned to enslave them all.
Alexander of Macedon invaded the areas now comprising Pakistan in 326 BC, fought
several battles, destroyed some towns and killed a few thousand people but did not indulge in pillaging these lands for booty.