philip

     

Philip, Phillip, or Filip Given Name

Trivia about philip

  • Demosthenes wrote that the second king of this name wasn't Greek but a "pestilent knave from Macedonia"
  • Alexander became king in 336 B.C. when this man, his father, was assassinated
  • Shared with a 4th century B.C. king of Macedonia
  • Composer Glass orDetective Marlowe
  • Pausanius, a young Macedonian noble, killed this man, Alexander's dad, in 336 B.C.
  • This Indian "king" for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676
  • A war with the Indians that broke out in 1675 was named for the Wampanoag leader called King this
  • Ancient Macedonia had 5 kings with this name; one came immediately before Alexander the Great & one immediately after
  • As a younger son of Amyntas III, he never expected to rule Macedonia--but then his older brother died in battle
  • In 338 B.C. this Macedonian king ended Greece's independence with victory in the battle of Chaeronea