Historian Richard A. Gabriel neatly summarized Philip II’s legacy, “Had there been no Philip to bring the Macedonian national state into existence, to assemble the economic and military resources to unite Greece, to create the bold strategic vision of conquering Persia, and to invent the first modern, tactically sophisticated and strategically capable military force in Western military history as the instrument for accomplishing that vision, the exploits of Philip’s son Alexander is Asia would not have been possible.”
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Sources:
Philip II of Macedon: Great than Alexander by Richard A. Gabriel
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
Tucker, Spencer C., and Lee L. Brice. "Philip II of Macedon." In World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2023. Accessed February 13, 2023. https://worldatwar2-abc-clio-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/Search/Display/1722643.
