Pausanias of Orestis (Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας ἐκ τῆς Ὀρεστίδος) was a member of Philip II of Macedon's personal bodyguard (somatophylakes). He assassinated Philip in 336 BC. Pausanias was killed while fleeing the assassination.
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👉 Pausanias of Orestis in the context of Pausanias (disambiguation)
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας) may refer to:
- Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
- Pausanias of Sicily, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles
- Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's Symposium c. 420 BC
- Pausanias (king of Sparta), King of Sparta from 408 to 395 BC
- Pausanias of Macedon, King of Macedon from 399 to 393 BC
- Pausanias (pretender), pretender to the throne of Macedon in the 360s BC
- Pausanias of Orestis, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
- Pausanias of Damascus, Greek historian of the last quarter of the 2nd century BC
- Pausanias (geographer), Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (Description of Greece) of the 2nd century AD
- Pafsanias Katsotas (1896-1991), Greek general and mayor of Athens
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Pausanias of Orestis in the context of Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (Ancient Greek: Φίλιππος, romanized: Phílippos; 382 BC – October 336 BC) was the king (basileus) of Macedon from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. The rise of Macedon, from a kingdom initially at the periphery of classical Greek affairs, to a power that came to dominate Ancient Greece in the span of less than 25 years, was largely thanks to the character and policies of Philip. He was the father of Alexander the Great and a member of the ruling Argead dynasty that founded the kingdom of the Macedonians.
Philip achieved to dominate Greece during his reign by the reformation of the Macedonian army, including the establishment of the Macedonian phalanx, the use of combined arms tactics and his extensive use of siege engines and artillery, as well as by the use of effective diplomacy and marriage alliances. After defeating the Greek city-states of Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, Philip II led the effort to establish a federation of Greek states known as the Hellenic League, with him as the elected hegemon and commander-in-chief of Greece for a planned invasion of the Achaemenid Empire. However, his assassination by a royal bodyguard, Pausanias of Orestis, led to the immediate succession of his son Alexander, who would go on to invade the Achaemenid Empire in his father's stead.
Pausanias of Orestis in the context of Alexander's Balkan campaign
The Balkan campaign of Alexander the Great took place in 335 BC, against a number of rebellious vassals of the Macedonian kingdom. Alexander successfully pacified each in turn, leaving him free to begin the long-planned invasion of Persia.
In 336 BC, while attending the wedding of his daughter by Olympias, Cleopatra and Olympias' brother, Alexander I of Epirus at Aegae, Philip II was assassinated by the captain of his bodyguard, Pausanias. Philip's son, and previously designated heir, Alexander was proclaimed king by the Macedonian noblemen and army.