Philip Of Macedon and a Unified Greece

In 359 BC when Philip of Macedon ascended to the Macedonian weed the nation was in threatening danger. It was under threat from all sides; the Illyrians having just defeated Philips companion king Perdiccas in battle, cleaning him and 4000 Macedonian soldiers, were poised to overflow the kingdom itself. The Paeonians were raiding Macedonian territories without fear of retribution and Philips canful was challenged by a recite of pretenders, the most prominent claimant beingness the Athenian backed Argaeus (Cawkwell 1978: 29). During such(prenominal) a perilous magazine Philip has no time honour his coronation, the survival of the Macedonian postulate was the his main priority, and in distinguish to be successful he had to move quickly and distract provoking the more coercive city conjures in Athens, Thebes and Sparta. In his kingdoms weakened state Philip could not afford to these powers to form a coalition against him. Philip was a fresh semipolitical and military leader. utilise these skills Philip was able to secure and aggrandise his kingdom while to a fault exerting influence on jibe Greek city states. He over(p) this by sagely playing on the avarice of Greek leaders, the suspicion and inter-city rivalries of the fiercely independent city-states, created allies by advocateing the underdogs among Greek city states, and using his astute political skill to take reinforcement of opportunities every time they arose (Hammond 1994: 29). This draw will examine the several(predicate) ways of how he accomplished his goals including discussing Philips manipulation of Athens, the city state whom he feared the most out-of-pocket to its naval power something the Macedonians lacked, and his support of Argos and other city states in the Peloponnese to weaken Sparta, for the expansion of his kingdom and unification of Greece.\nBy 359 BC in Greece, the power of the city state had waned considerably, and of the remaining leash who maintained a slenderly dominant position and Athens was trying to induce onto its empirical ...