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The final installment in the series on Philip's assassination, wherein I discuss the suspects--other than the obvious, Pausanias himself. Was anyone else involved? It's important not just to consider who benefited, but who *might* have benefited, and for whom the timing was better...or worse. There are sound reasons Alexander (and Olympias) probably weren't involved.
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=V2eaI5iJ8XQ&t
Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=X1hPymee8KA
Articles mentioned in the videos:
Elizabeth D. Carney “Regicide in Macedonia,” Parola del Passato 211 (1983) 260-72.
_____. "The Politics of Polygamy: Olympias, Alexander, and the Murder of Philip," Historia 40.2 (1992) 169-189.
J.R. Ellis, "Amyntas Perdikka, Philip II, and Alexander the Great: a Study in Conspiracy," Journal of Hellenic Studies (1971) 15-24.
Timothy Howe, "Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a ‘Weak’ Alexander," in East and West in the World of Alexander the Great. Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth (Oxford, 2015), 133-46.
The final installment in the series on Philip's assassination, wherein I discuss the suspects--other than the obvious, Pausanias himself. Was anyone else involved? It's important not just to consider who benefited, but who *might* have benefited, and for whom the timing was better...or worse. There are sound reasons Alexander (and Olympias) probably weren't involved.
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=V2eaI5iJ8XQ&t
Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=X1hPymee8KA
Articles mentioned in the videos:
Elizabeth D. Carney “Regicide in Macedonia,” Parola del Passato 211 (1983) 260-72.
_____. "The Politics of Polygamy: Olympias, Alexander, and the Murder of Philip," Historia 40.2 (1992) 169-189.
J.R. Ellis, "Amyntas Perdikka, Philip II, and Alexander the Great: a Study in Conspiracy," Journal of Hellenic Studies (1971) 15-24.
Timothy Howe, "Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a ‘Weak’ Alexander," in East and West in the World of Alexander the Great. Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth (Oxford, 2015), 133-46.
