Philip III of Macedon

Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great and nominal king after Alexander’s death. His reign was controlled by generals and royal women during the early wars of the Successors.

Robert Fabbri’s To the Strongest places Philip III of Macedon within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Mary Renault’s Funeral Games places Philip III of Macedon within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Philip III of Macedon include Robert Fabbri’s An Empty Throne and Robert Fabbri’s The Three Paradises.

In non-fiction, Philip III of Macedon is discussed in Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20 and Quintus Curtius Rufus’s The History of Alexander. In Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20, Book 16 traces Philip II’s transformation of Macedon from a vulnerable kingdom into the dominant power of Greece, placing the Sacred War, the struggle for Greek alliances and the Battle of Chaeronea beside upheavals in Sicily.