Philip Of Macedon and a Unified Greece

In 359 BC when Philip of Macedon ascended to the Macedonian backside the demesne was in heavy(a) danger. It was under threat from all sides; the Illyrians having just defeated Philips chum salmon king Perdiccas in battle, cleanup spot him and 4000 Macedonian soldiers, were poised to invade the kingdom itself. The Paeonians were raiding Macedonian territories without fear of retribution and Philips potentiometer was challenged by a numeral of pretenders, the most prominent claimant beingness the Athenian backed Argaeus (Cawkwell 1978: 29). During much(prenominal) a perilous metre Philip has no time fete his coronation, the survival of the Macedonian soil was the his main priority, and in tack to be successful he had to move quickly and cancel provoking the more muscular urban center estates in Athens, Thebes and Sparta. In his kingdoms weakened state Philip could non afford to these powers to form a coalition against him. Philip was a sharp governmental and mili tary leader. use these skills Philip was able to secure and magnify his kingdom while too exerting influence on challenger Greek city states. He sodding(a) this by wisely playing on the edacity of Greek leaders, the suspicion and inter-city rivalries of the fiercely independent city-states, created allies by nutrimenting the underdogs among Greek city states, and using his astute political skill to take payoff of opportunities every time they arose (Hammond 1994: 29). This score will examine the variant ways of how he accomplished his goals including discussing Philips manipulation of Athens, the city state whom he feared the most cod 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 tether who maintained a roughly dominant positio n but Athens was trying to gift onto its empirical ...