# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-ii-of-macedon
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:55:05.294Z

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name: "Philip II of Macedon"
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description: "The king who turned a backwater into the superpower that bent Greece to its knee — then was murdered on the eve of his Persian invasion, leaving his son to inherit an empire."
tagline: "King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC"
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birthDate: "-385"
deathDate: "-336"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Philip II became king of Macedon in 359 BC, inheriting a kingdom on the margins of Greek affairs. Over the next two decades, he transformed it through military reform — the Macedonian phalanx, combined arms, siege engines — and shrewd diplomacy and marriage alliances. In 338 BC he crushed Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea, then forged the Greek city-states into the Hellenic League with himself as hegemon and commander. He was planning an invasion of the Achaemenid Empire when Pausanias of Orestis, a royal bodyguard, assassinated him in October 336 BC. His son Alexander took the throne and carried out the Persian campaign in his place.