Philip II and Alexander the Great

Situation after the Peloponnesian war
The League of Corinth

Cultural differences between Macedon and the Greek states to the south:
1. kingship
2. no polis system: predominantly rural
3. dialect of Greek
4. Influenced by Thrace

Demosthenes’ position; the "Philippics"
338: Battle of Chaeronea

Philip II: attitude toward the Greeks
Aristotle and Alexander
Olympias and the birth of Alexander
Cleopatra
Assassination of Philip

The Royal tombs at Vergina

Alexander’s consolidation of Greece
Timoclea of Thebes

Alexander’s expedition from Pella (begins 334)
Asia Minor: the Gordian Knot
Palestine and Egypt: Alexandria, Ammon
Mesopotamia
Persia: Darius III. Proskynesis.
Afghanistan: Sogdiana. Roxane.
Punjab (northern India): Bucephalus.
The journey home and the death of Alexander.