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Philippus (King of Macedonia son)

King of Macedonia, son of Amyntas, king of Macedonia. He learned the art of war from Epaminondas. He married Olympias, the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of the Molossi, and became father of Alexander the Great. Among the most important events of his reign was the battle of Chaeronea, which he won from the Greeks.

The character of Philip is that of a sagacious, prudent, but artful and intriguing monarch.

He was assassinated by Pausanias at the celebration of the nuptials of his daughter, in the forty-seventh year of his age and the twenty-fourth of his reign, about 336 years before the Christian era.