Pharnacids: Persian satrapal dynasty, ruling in Hellespontine Phrygia.The Pharnacids decended from an Achaemenid nobleman named Pharnaces, who was mayor of the palace of the Persian king Darius I the Great. In 477, Pharnaces' son Artabazus was appointed satrap of Hellespontine…
Pharsalus: Greek town in Thessaly, well-known for the famous battle in 48 BCE in which the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated his opponent Pompey the Great.
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In the Battle of Pharsalus, on 9 August 48 BCE, the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated the troops of the Roman Senate, commanded by his rival Pompey the Great. Caesar's victory marked the end of the Roman republic.
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Phila (c.355- 288): Macedonian lady, wife of Craterus.Relatives
Father: Antipater
First husband: Alexander of Lyncestis
Second husband: Balacrus
Third husband: Craterus
Son: Craterus
Fourth husband: Demetrius Poliorcetes
Children: Stratonice I and Antigonus Gonatas
Main deeds
c.355: Born as daughter of Antipater,
First marriage to Alexander of Lyncestis, a Macedonian nobleman
336:…
Phila II (c.295- after 275): Seleucid princess, married to Antigonus II Gonatas.Relatives
Father: Seleucus I Nicator
Mother: Stratonice I
Husband: Antigonus Gonatas
Main deeds
276: Phila II marries Antigonus Gonatas
She has a son, Demetrius II
Philadelphia: orginal capital of the Ammonites, city in the Ptolemaic Empire, one of the towns in the Decapolis, modern Amman (Jordan).Prehistory and Iron Age
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Philetaerus: ruler of Pergamon (d. 263), founder of the Attalid dynasty.
Philetaerus (bust from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum)
Relatives
Father: Attalus,…
Philip Arrhidaeus (c.356-317): the mentally deficient and epileptic brother of Alexander the Great who succeeded him as king of the Macedonian Empire in 323, but had several regents, who all used their pupil for their own purposes.
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Philip II (*382): king of Macedonia (r.360-336), responsible for the modernization of his kingdom and its expansion into Greece, father of Alexander the Great.
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Philip II Philoromaeus ("friend of the Romans"): name of the last Seleucid king, ruled from 65 to 64.Relatives
Father: Philip I Philadelphus
Main deeds:
75: Death of Philip I Philadelphus
His intended successor, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, visits Rome
74/73: Tigranes II the Great of Armenia…