Hegemony: Phillip of Macedon – The Verdict
“The greatest king Europe has ever known” extolled the busy-bodying Theopompos of Chios in one of the more positive moments of his fragmentary and conflicted 58 book biopic of Phillip II of Macedon. Yet games, books and films alike generally relegate to the far less magnanimous footnote “(father of Alexander the Great)”. Hegemony: Phillip of Macedon seeks to readdress this gross understatement. You see, Alexander wouldn’t have been able to undertake his romp through Persia if Daddy hadn’t built the…