Occisio Philippi Macedonis

Occisio Philippi Macedonis, id est interfestio regis Philippi II patris Alexandri Magni, Aegis anno 336 a.C.n. accidit eodem die quo Philippus nuptias celebrabat filiae Cleopatrae et Alexandri Epirotae. Interfector fuit Pausanias, sed qua ratione egerit haud certum est. Multi Olympiadem Philippi uxorem inculpaverunt, nonnulli Alexandrum.Plutarchus, "Alexander" 10; Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 3.6.5 Iustinus, auctorum Latinorum solus, occisionem sic narrat:
Sed nec ludorum magnificentia deerat; ad quorum spectaculum Philippus cum sine custodibus corporis medius inter duos Alexandros, filium generumque, contenderet, Pausanias, nobilis ex Macedonibus adulescens, nemini suspectus, occupatis angustiis Philippum in transitu obtruncat diemque laetitiae destinatum foedus luctu funeris facit (Iustinus, Epitome Pompei Trogi 9.6). 

 Fontes 
 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 16.93.2-94.4
 Plutarchus, "Vita Alexandri" 10.6–8
 Aristoteles, Politica  1311b2
 Iustinus, Epitome Pompei Trogi 9.6–7
 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1798
 Arrianus, Anabasis Alexandri 2.14.5

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
 E. Badian, "The Death of Philip II" in Phoenix vol. 17 (1963) pp. 244-250; reimpressum in E. Badian, Collected papers on Alexander the Great (Londinii: Routledge, 2012) pp. 106-112
 E. Badian, "Once More the Death of Philip II" in Ancient Macedonia vol. 7 (Thessalonicae: Institute of Balkan Studies, 2007) pp. 389–406; reimpressum in E. Badian, Collected papers on Alexander the Great (Londinii: Routledge, 2012) pp. 496-511
 "Olympias" in  no. 581, vol. 2 pp. 283-288
 Elizabeth D. Carney, "The Politics of Polygamy: Olympias, Alexander and the Murder of Philip" in Historia vol. 41 (1992) pp. 169-189 JSTOR; reimpressum cum additamentis in E. D. Carney, King and court in ancient Macedonia (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015) pp. 167-190


 J. R. Ellis, "The Assassination of Philip II" in Ancient Macedonian Studies in Honor of Charles F. Edson (Thessalonicae: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1981) pp. 99-137
 J. R. Fears, "Pausanias, The Assassin of Philip II" in Athenaeum vol. 53 (1975) pp. 111-135
 W. Heckel, "Philip and Olympias (337/6 B.C.)" in Classical Contributions: Studies in Honour of M.F. McGregor (Locust Valley, 1981) pp. 51-57 

Categoria:336 a.C.n.
Categoria:Philippus II (Macedonum rex)
Categoria:Alexander Magnus
Categoria:Interfectio
Categoria:Aegae