What if Alexander the Great's father Philip wasn't assassinated?

I think Philip would have taken on the Persians also but wouldn't campaign as far away from Greece as Alexander would. I think He would conquer Asia Minor,Syria,Phoenicia,Israel and Judea and that would be about it.
 
I think Philip would have taken on the Persians also but wouldn't campaign as far away from Greece as Alexander would. I think He would conquer Asia Minor,Syria,Phoenicia,Israel and Judea and that would be about it.

IMHO that seems likely too, Philip might end up controlling a territory, which would roughly correspond with the later OTL Eastern Roman Empire.
 
I think Philip would have taken on the Persians also but wouldn't campaign as far away from Greece as Alexander would. I think He would conquer Asia Minor,Syria,Phoenicia,Israel and Judea and that would be about it.

I personally see him taking Asia Minor, the Levant, and Egypt.
 

Anaxagoras

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I'm a little less optimistic than other posters thus far. I can see Philip taking control of Sardis and the western chunk of Asia Minor, but that's about it. Amazing a man as he was, he wasn't his son.
 
I'm a little less optimistic than other posters thus far. I can see Philip taking control of Sardis and the western chunk of Asia Minor, but that's about it. Amazing a man as he was, he wasn't his son.

Phillip wold probably have a better strategy for taking on Persia in Anatolia. Alexander just got extremely lucky-Phillip on the other hand, at least at this point I think, was a far better strategist.
 
I think you have to explain the term "lucky" you related to Alexander,and,of course why...

I was talking about early on, specifically at the Granicus. He was extremely lucky that A.) The Persian commanders refused to listen to Memnon, and B.) Charging across the Granicus and nearly dying only to be saved by Cleitus.
 
I think he would accept the offer made by Darius OTL about a border on the Euphrates, then, (if he's still alive) invade the rest anyway once the inevitable Persian civil war comes around
 
I think he would accept the offer made by Darius OTL about a border on the Euphrates, then, (if he's still alive) invade the rest anyway once the inevitable Persian civil war comes around

I'm not sure he would want to invade the rest, as much as sponsor a few clients and play everyone off each other to prevent a powerful state from bordering him.
 
Was there really any evidence that Phillip wanted to do more than liberate the "Greek" cities in Asia Minor and go and sack the Persian cities (as the Persians did to Athens in 480 BCE). As head of the Greeks he would maintain hegemony in the Aegean (and have a huge war chest to finance his armies).

A Phillipian Empire would probably stretch from Illyria in the North West through Thrace and then along the coast of Asia Minor down to Rhodes, across to the islands of Crete and Cyprus and possibly as far as Sicily and Magna Graecia.

Alexander may not be satisfied but it does open up interesting possibilities of an early conflict between Greeks in Italy protected by Macedon and the Latins under Rome
 
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