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The Rise of Macedon: Philip II's Military Revolution
Before Alexander the Great conquered Persia, his father Philip II transformed Macedon from a peripheral kingdom into Greece's dominant power. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Philip's innovations: the sarissa pike that doubled the length of the Greek dory, the revolutionary combined-arms tactics of the Macedonian phalanx and companion cavalry, and the siegecraft that cracked once-impregnable cities. They discuss how Philip leveraged the gold mines of Mount Pangaeum to fund his army, his use of diplomacy and marriage alliances to divide and conquer the Greek city-states, and…
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