Политикът и държавникът Филип IІ в първите години на своето управление (359 - 357 г. пр. Хр.)
The Politician and Statesman Philip IІ During His First Years of Government (359 - 357 BC)

Summary/Abstract: During his first three years of government Philip II proved his exceptional talents as statesman, politician, diplomat and administrator. He met no challenge to get the supreme power after the decision voted by the general assembly made of warriors and the aristocratic elite – he even left his underage nephew, Amyntas IV, close to the government of the state. Gradually, by smart diplomatic maneuvers he got rid of all real and imaginary pretenders to the Argeades’ throne. He entertained delicate diplomatic relations with Athens and even more so with Amphipolis and the Odrysian king Cotys I, and played astute political games with the neighboring Paeonian and Illyrian tribes. The latter suffered a heavy defeat on the battlefield where their old king Bardylis was also killed. At that time Philip II contracted his first dynastic and political marriages in order to legitimize incontestably his position as well at home as in the eyes of his foreign counterparts. His military and administrative reforms were particularly important and made him a political factor in the European Southeast and the Hellenic world, especially after the fall of the strategically important Amphipolis.

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