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The 30 pages that link to Philip II of Macedon, each with the reason it gives.

• Alexander the GreatRelated: His military reforms and political conquests gave Alexander the forces and kingdom he inherited.

• Macedonian phalanxRelated: His reforms established the army in which the sarissa phalanx became central.

• Battle of ChaeroneaRelated: His command and military reforms shaped the Macedonian victory at Chaeronea.

• Antigonus I MonophthalmusNarrower topic: Antigonus’s career began within the Macedonian kingdom shaped by Philip and inherited by Alexander.

• Macedonian armyRelated: He built the disciplined, combined-arms force that Alexander later commanded.

• Companion cavalryRelated: His military reforms strengthened the cavalry force Alexander later led.

• Hellenistic warfareRelated: His reforms gave Alexander the army that launched the conquests behind Hellenistic warfare.

• Battle of the GranicusRelated: His military reforms and invasion plans formed the foundation of Alexander’s campaign.

• Hellenistic armyRelated: His reforms supplied the military system that successor kingdoms adapted.

• MacedonBroader topic: His reforms and campaigns made Macedon the leading Greek state.

• Macedonian EmpireBroader topic: He built the military and political foundations Alexander used to conquer the Persian Empire.

• OlympiasRelated: Her marriage to Philip placed her within the Macedonian royal household.

• ThraceRelated: His conquests brought much of Thrace under Macedonian control.

• Hellenistic kingdomRelated: His strengthened Macedonian monarchy enabled the conquest that preceded the Hellenistic kingdoms.

• Artaxerxes IIIRelated: His growing power became a major external threat after Artaxerxes III's reign.

• Boeotian LeagueRelated: His victory brought Boeotia under Macedonian supremacy.

• League of CorinthRelated: Philip founded the League after securing supremacy over the Greek states.

• CassanderRelated: Cassander married Thessalonike, Philip II’s daughter, and named a city for her.

• IsocratesRelated: Isocrates addressed Philip as a possible leader for his proposed campaign against Persia.

• DemosthenesRelated: Demosthenes made Philip’s growing power the central target of his political warnings.

• EpaminondasRelated: Philip learned military lessons in Thebes during a period shaped by Epaminondas’ leadership.

• Amyntas III of MacedonBroader topic: Amyntas's son inherited a kingdom whose survival his father had helped secure.

• Odrysian kingdomRelated: His campaigns and diplomacy reshaped Odrysian independence.

• Philip the ApostleCompared with: This prominent Philip belongs to ancient Macedonian history, not the New Testament.

• ParmenionRelated: Parmenion served Philip and helped lead the campaigns that expanded Macedonian power.

• Pausanias of OrestisRelated: Philip’s relationships and court form the setting for accounts of Pausanias’s grievance.

• Amphictyonic LeagueRelated: His victory in the Third Sacred War secured Macedon a place in the league.

• Eurydice II of MacedonRelated: Eurydice was Philip’s sister; his accession ended the unstable years after Ptolemy’s rule.

• HerostratusRelated: Ancient accounts place Herostratus’s arson on the night Philip’s son Alexander was born.

• Wars of Alexander the GreatRelated: Philip built the military capacity and planned the Persian invasion Alexander inherited.