Philip of Macedon

By the year 336 b.c., Philip of Macedon had subdued the bickering city-states of Greece and welded them into an impressive fighting force. He had also completed plans to invade Asia Minor in order to take on the forces of the mighty Persian Empire. In the summer of 336 B.C., Philip was murdered and succeeded by his son Alexander, who went on with the project. 

The use of the bow is of great antiquity. Plato credits Apollo with the invention. Ishmael became an archer (Gen. xxi. 20). The Philistine archers overcame Saul (1 Sam. xxxi. 3). David commanded it to be tai ht (2 Sam. i 18). Aster of Am-phipolis shot Philip of Macedon, and was hanged therefor. An ancient Egyptian bow is preserved in the Abbott Museum,-Newiorki together with the leather cm that contained it and fastened it to the war-chariot. Four arrows, made of reed and tipped vrith flint-stone, are suspended with it. 

Oliver 2007 15-41 Moreno 2007 3-33, 323-34 Reed 2003 18-19. On a single occasion and in a single area, Philip of Macedon in 340 seized between 180 and 230 grain ships bound for Athens (Bresson 1994 Engen 2010 64, 333 n. 53). 

PHILIP II (d. 336). King of Macedon 359-336 and father of Alexander the Great he conquered Greece and was about to attack the Persian Empire when he was assassinated. 

THEOPOMPUS (fourth century). A pupil of the rhetorician Isocrates, he wrote a Greek history in continuation of Thucydides and a history of the reign of Philip II of Macedon. 

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