You know Alexander the Great, but he wouldn't be anything without his dear old dad, King Philip of Macedon. Born into the bloodthirsty Macedonian royal family, Philip survived the game of thrones to ...

In the year 338 BC, the forces of Philip ii of Macedon and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes clashed ...

Archaeologists in Greece are showing how Philip of Macedon paved the way for his son Alexander to become a legend Richard Grant; Photographs by Myrto Papadopoulos I drive on a dirt road in Northern ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from modern Albania ...

After leaving Jerusalem and traversing into and out of the Mountains of Darkness, Alexander of Macedon found himself in a new, unpopulated, gorgeous land. His soldiers caught fish in a crystal clear ...

The renovated palace of the father of Alexander the Great, an architectural wonder at Aigai, in northern Greece, was formally opened to the public on Friday. The royal metropolis of the Macedonians, ...

Short summary describing this character. Philip II of Macedon (382 - 336 BC) was king of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC. When he rose to the throne Macedon had suffered recent defeats against the ...