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In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.

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Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece...

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... for the first time he [Philip] began to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism and aristocratic monarchy, so despised by the rest of Greece, might prove a source of strength when dealing with such opponents.

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Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or 'natural law'. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexander to be 'a hegemon [leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants'.

Peter Green

Peter Green

Peter Green

Born: December 22, 1924

Died: September 16, 2024 (aged 99)

Bio: Peter Morris Green was a British classical scholar noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history.

Known for:

In the Skies (1979)
The End of the Game (1970)
Fleetwood Mac (1968)
Then Play On (1969)
Little Dreamer (1980)

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