Hardcore History #71 · June 7, 2024 · 240m

Mania for Subjugation

Hardcore History

The world of Philip II of Macedon — the father who built the military machine that his son Alexander would use to conquer the known world. Carlin examines how Philip transformed a weak kingdom into the dominant power in Greece.

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Biographies as mentors — Philip and Alexander

Philip deliberately curated Alexander's education — hiring Aristotle as tutor, giving him Homer's Iliad as a model for living. Alexander literally used Achilles as a biographical mentor.

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Highlights

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Great achievements often rest on unglamorous predecessors

Alexander gets the glory, but Philip built the army, invented the tactics, and unified Greece. Without Philip's decades of patient work, Alexander's conquests would have been impossible.

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