Philip II of Macedonia: Greater than Alexander

This book is a study of a man often overshadowed by the fame of his son. A man whose life was longer than his son`s, and much more difficult, who lived with permanent danger, a danger which finally manifested itself under the guise of a murderer. A man in fact who left little trace of his thoughts and actions except in the words of his quite eloquent enemies, Demosthenes being foremost amongst them. The aim of this book is the rehabilitation of Philip`s memory and an attempt to paint the picture of a man of exceptional abilities, far from the drunk one might remember from the movie Alexander or the translation of the Philipics...

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