CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 11: Classics 1M03 - Lecture 11 - Philip & Alexander
28 Jul 2018
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Macedon, to the north, had in the archaic period followed a different line of socio- political development from greece. Where in greece small, unified citizen-states had emerged, macedon was formed into a kingdom under the argead dynasty of kings. It was rich in resources of material and manpower, with a much larger territory than a. Greek polis, but it was quite disunited and the kinds exercised only weak control. Thus it had been a marginal player on the historical stage, disdained by the greeks as rough, primitive, and barbarous. One of the great surprises of history, not least for the greeks, then, was the arrival of a. Macedonian king who, in a remarkably short time, forged a strong kingdom, united under royal rule, and so for the first time able effectively to mobilize its resources and project macedonian power into the outside world. This king was philip ii, who came to the throne in 359.
