biography
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Philip II (of Macedon)
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| (382–336 BC)
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| biography:
| King of Macedon (359–336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great. He used his military and diplomatic skills first to create a powerful unified state at home (359–353 BC), then to make himself the master of the whole of independent Greece. His decisive victory at Chaeronea (338 BC) established Macedonian hegemony there for good. The planned Macedonian conquest of Persia, aborted by his assassination in 336 BC, was eventually carried out by his son. |
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