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Abstract

This chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the crucial role of two of Philip’s battles in his development of a grand strategy that ultimately transformed Macedonia into the superpower of the Aegean world. After spending the fraught early years of his reign securing his hold on the throne and consolidating his kingdom, Philip’s victory in the Battle of the Crocus Field demonstrated the potential to which he could exercise religious and ideological authority to expand his influence into central Greece. Philip’s ensuing settlement of the Third Sacred War left him in control of the Delphic Amphictyony, but also set in motion a chain of events that led to the formation of a Greek coalition against him, which Philip defeated decisively at the Battle of Chaeronea. After his victory at Chaeronea, Philip was forced to develop a new strategy to unite the Greeks under his hegemonial leadership, which he achieved by reworking the memory of the Persian Wars to justify a new panhellenic campaign against Persia, paving the way for the conquests of Alexander.

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