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Plutarch says [4] that in 344 BC, at twelve or thirteen years of age, Alexander of Macedonia won the horse by making a wager with his father: a horse dealer named Philonicus the Thessalian offered Bucephalus to King Philip II for the remarkably high sum of 13 talents. [a] Because no one could tame the animal, Philip was not interested. However ...
Philip was born in either 383 or 382 BC, and was the youngest son of King Amyntas III and Eurydice of Lynkestis. [5] [6] He had two older brothers, Alexander II and Perdiccas III, as well as a sister named Eurynoe.
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus is an 1826 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from ancient history when Alexander the Great tamed his famous warhorse Bucephalus. On the right of the picture are Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon and mother Olympias.
Philip II Philoromaeus last Seleucid (65–63 BC) Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal (1526–1598), also King of England and Ireland by marriage (1554–1558) Philip III of Spain and II of Portugal (1578–1621) Philip IV of Spain and III of Portugal (1605–1665) Philip V of Spain (1683–1746) Philip VI of Spain, more often known by his ...
The Kingdom of Macedon in 336 BC. In 336 BC, Philip II was assassinated by the captain of his bodyguards, Pausanias of Orestis. [8] Philip's son, and previously designated heir, Alexander, was proclaimed king by the Macedonian noblemen and army. [9]
Philip, and the Macedonian garrisons installed, would act as the 'keepers of the peace'. [53] At Philip's behest, the synod of the league then declared war on Persia, and voted Philip as Strategos for the forthcoming campaign. [52] An advance Macedonian force was sent to Persia in early 336 BC, with Philip due to follow later in the year. [52]
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Pausanias killed Philip at the wedding ceremony of Philip's daughter Cleopatra to Alexander I of Epirus; however, in the aftermath of the murder, whilst fleeing to the city gate in order to try to make his escape, Pausanias tripped on a vine root and was speared to death by several of Philip's bodyguards, including Attalus, son of Andromenes the Stymphaean, Leonnatus, and Perdiccas, who were ...