Philip the One-Eye and the Rise of Macedonia

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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For most of the history of ancient Greece, Macedonia was a backwater: a semi-barbarian kingdom on the fringes of the Greek world, only tangentially involved in the dealings of the sophisticated city-states to the south. But with the rise of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, all of that began to change very quickly.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad free right now.
0:04.4	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Raindrops pattern on the brim of the young man's hat. To call him a man was perhaps a bit of a stretch. The day of his birth was no more
0:25.8	than 17 years in the past though he couldn't have said exactly when. For the son of a
0:30.9	poor farmer in the hills of Upper Macedonia, there were more important things to worry about than the precise day on which someone had been born.
0:38.0	He wasn't particularly tall, nor was there much muscle hanging from his skinny frame.
0:43.3	The thin soil of his father's fields barely produced enough grain
0:46.3	to keep the sharpest edges of hunger from slicing into his belly.
0:49.7	And the pitiful flock of sheep that grazed the stony,
0:52.3	forested hills behind their one-room house,
0:54.7	didn't do much to supplement their diet.
0:57.2	His elder siblings, two brothers and a sister, always got the lion's share of the food anyway,
1:01.6	leaving him, the smallest of them, to scrounge what he could.
1:05.7	Now he was leaving.
1:07.5	There was no future for him here, that was clear, as clear as the rain sluicing off his broad-brimmed hat
1:12.2	and soaking into his thin woolen cloak.
1:15.2	He didn't look back as he walks down the dirt path that led to the road and then the day-long
1:19.2	walk to the nearby town.
1:21.6	The young man had heard that there was a new king in Macedonia named
1:24.6	Philip and he wanted soldiers for his army. He was paying solid coin more than
1:29.7	those pitiful fields and pastures could ever hope to provide for those who were willing to leave their homes behind and have to spear in the service of a Macedonian king.
1:37.5	Kings had never really entered the young man's thoughts before.
1:41.0	This rocky valley was a long way from any king and he couldn't see why
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