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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover Cloth 303 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 2010. Beautiful maroon boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with unbruised tips. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear-a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Philip II of Macedonia (382336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic and tactical genius, and military reformer who revolutionized warfare in Greece and the West, was one of the greatest captains in the military history of the West. Philip prepared the ground, assembled the resources, conceived the strategic vision, and launched the first modern, tactically sophisticated and strategically capable army in Western military history, making the later victories of his son Alexander possible. Philip's death marked the passing of the classical age of Greek history and warfare and the beginning of its imperial age. To Philip belongs the title of the first great general of a new age of warfare in the West, an age that he initiated with his introduction of a new instrument of war, the Macedonian phalanx, and the tactical doctrines to ensure its success. As a practitioner of the political art, Philip also had no equal. In all these things, Philip exceeded Alexander's triumphs. This book establishes Philip's legitimate and deserved place in military history, which, until now, has been largely minimized in favor of his son by the classicist writers who have dominated the field of ancient biography. Richard Gabriel, renowned military historian, has given us the first military biography of Philip II of Macedonia.
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A lot of scholars would agree with R. A. Gabriel assigning the epithet ''Greater'' to Philip II of Macedon. Yet this is not the reason of my review of his book. There are very few historians, archaeologists and anthropologists who have dealt with King Phlip's cremains found in a gold larnax of Tomb II at the Great Tumulus of Aegae in 1977, and have spent endless debates on his identity. This was due to pure lack of material evidence, e.g,, absence of a detailed anthropological study. To site an example, the cover photo of Gabriel's unique book is from ''Making Faces'' [by J. Prag-R. Neave, Texas A&M, 1997], who had never studied the ca. 400 bones, teeth and frags of the King's cremated skeleton, unfortunately...If they had, they would have realized that there is NO osseous trauma on Philip's supraorbital orbit, a fact already stated in the very detailed publication of Xitotiris-Langenscheidt [Archaeologike Ephemeris, 1981]. This fact has been verified in a more extended four-year anthropological study by the Anthropological Research Team at the Vergina Excavation of the Aristotle U in Thessaloniki. The study was presented at the annual ''Archaeologikon Ergon in Macedonia and Thrace'' recently, and it would be a pleasure to send Mr. Gabriela a short press release re our new finds as I have the honor to head the research team. Alas I don't have his email. Please be so kind as to send it to us.
The key point to this review is this: N.G.L Hammond [Philip II of Macedon, 1997], a great scholar in Macedonian history, had suggested that the woman laying in the antechamber of Tomb II may have been the daughter of the Skythian King Ateas killed in battle against Philip in 339 BC at the age of 90. As far as I know, Gabriel is the only writer who supports this hypothesis. I guess he will be pleased to know that so does the Anthropological Research Team. A more accurate age determination of the cremated lady in the antechamber based in her pubic symphysis shows she was 32 +/- 2 years thus excluding every other wife of Philip. In addition, our paleopathological study has revealed that the Scythian lady's left tibia had an old compression fracture confirmed by CAT scans which had led to atrophy shortening and disfigurement. Ergo. The shorter left greave the gorytos, the 74 arrows, the spear and other offensive weaponry found in the antechamber belong to her, not to Philip. Hence the seventh wife/concubine of the Philip II was the anonymous Skythian princess. Period.
