Having established himself with his earlier victory at Amphipolis, he came to terms with Greece in the Peace of Philocrates, but Athenian hostility led by Demosthenes led him to crush the Greeks at Chaeronea in 338 BCE.
This leader gained the support of Thessaly by promising to settle the Third Sacred War, and soon afterward defeated Phocis at the Battle of the Crocus Field, thus securing his northern border. Having established himself with his earlier victory at Amphipolis, he came to terms with Greece in the Peace of Philocrates, but Athenian hostility led by Demosthenes led him to crush the Greeks at Chaeronea in 338 BCE. Murdered while preparing a war on Persia, FTP, who was this king of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great?
This leader gained the support of Thessaly by promising to settle the Third Sacred War, and soon afterward defeated Phocis at the Battle of the Crocus Field, thus securing his northern border.
Philip II of Macedon