[citation needed], In 355–354 he besieged Methone, the last city on the Thermaic Gulf controlled by Athens. In the meantime, his general Parmenion defeated the Illyrians again. Cookies help us deliver our Services. He was active in completing the subjugation of the Balkan hill-country to the west and north, and in reducing the Greek cities of the coast as far as the Hebrus. Already in the late 370s Datames, the governor of Cappadocia, had established his independence. (Mausolus’s help, however, is a fact and should not be doubted.) The Olynthian alliance is a reminder that Philip was always happy to operate diplomatically if at all possible; in fact, the Athenians had been kept quiet at the time of Philip’s assault on Amphipolis by promises that he would hand it over to them. He subsequently conquered Potidaea, this time keeping his word and ceding it to the League in 356. In 347 BC, Philip advanced to the conquest of the eastern districts about Hebrus, and compelled the submission of the Thracian prince Cersobleptes. There were specific bans on “confiscation of property, redistribution of land, cancellation of debts, or freeing of slaves with revolutionary intent.”. He must have looked older than his age, scarcely more than the mid-30s, because he had already lost an eye at Methone. In addition, there was no comfort for Athens from the events on its doorstep; Euboea, which Eubulus and his supporters agreed should always be defended, successfully revolted in 348. Philip’s political settlement is illustrated by a speech wrongly attributed to Demosthenes and by an inscription much restored with the help of the speech. Philip V of Macedon (238 BC-179 BC) was King of Macedon from 221 BC to 179 BC, succeeding Antigonus III Doson and preceding Perseus. However, Demosthenes, who constantly worked against that policy, argued that Philip was untrustworthy; he pointed out that in the second half of the 340s Philip was a persistent peacebreaker, as, for instance, in the Peloponnese and on Euboea. In 337 BCE Attalus, a close friend and Macedonian commander, convinced Philip to marry his niece, Cleopatra Eurydice, and provide a more suitable heir. He increased its size from 10,000 to 24,000 and enlarged the cavalry from 600 to 3,500. To this end most of the great federations of Greece were left intact; only Athens’s naval confederacy was dissolved (though its cleruchy on Samos was retained) and, less certainly, the Aetolian League suppressed in a punitive measure. After the battle of Leuctra, the Spartan reputation for being unstoppable warriors ended- the center of military reputation and dominance moved northward to Thebes and later Macedonia. Athens had difficulties of its own at this time. Because Alexander’s mother was from neighboring Epirus, the king was pressured to marry a true Macedonian and provide the country with a pure-blood heir. The actual declaration of the Sacred War was delayed until 355, partly because it was only in that year that the relative impotence of one of Phocis’s hitherto most-impressive-looking allies, the Athenians, was revealed by the miserable end to the Social War in the Aegean. This was the occasion of the three “Olynthiac Orations” of Demosthenes. Ancient History Encyclopedia Limited is a non-profit company registered in the United Kingdom. These decisive victories led to Philip being recognized as the military leader of the League of Corinth, a Greek confederation allied against the Persian Empire, in 338/7 BC. [Text] Sparta's response after Philip II of Macedon threatened to invade Laconia. In 336 BCE a former friend and lover of Philip, Pausanias, became angry with Philip over a personal matter and stabbed him to death. After subduing any serious threats to his rule, Alexander fulfilled his father’s dream and invaded Persia. Philip assumed the Macedonian throne for himself at the age of 23 in 359 BCE. Philip quickly realized the weaknesses of his countrys army and drew upon past experience to mold them into a superb fighting unit. After the conquest of Methone came some successes in Thrace, which Athens was unable to prevent despite attempts, a little halfhearted and a little late, to strengthen the independent Thracian princes through alliances with itself. This happened in 365, after a turbulent five-year interval of two brief reigns, those of Alexander II and Ptolemy, and one intervention by a pretender, Pausanias.
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