Philippe II fondateur de la Macédoine nouvelle

摘要

Philip, the third son of king Amyntas and Eurydice acceded to the throne in dramatic conditions at the age of 22 in 360. The Macedonian army was annihilated, the king, his elder brother, had been killed, and all the enemies of Macedonia threatened to invade a country torn by strife in order to pull it to pieces. A quarter of a century later Philip died assassinated, but the kingdom which he bequeathed to his son Alexander was the greatest power in South-Eastern Europe. The present paper aims at identifying the civil and military reforms at the central and local level, which not only made this king all powerful within his realm and, thanks to his military might and his prestige, undisputed leader of Greece, but also earned him the supreme honour of being venerated by his people as saviour and second founder of the kingdom for many generations.