The Peloponnesian War bled ancient Greece dry. A state in the north would fill the resulting power vacuum: Macedonia. Episode 5 of our documentary series tells how Philip II forged a military superpower. His son Alexander would conquer a global empire with its hoplites. This heralded the beginning of Greece’s last great era: Hellenism.
WRITERS: Andreas Sommer, Martin Becker DIRECTORS: Martin Becker CAMERA: Tobias Sundermann, Leo Adass EDITOR: Agnès Padrol Sureda SOUND: Lars Böhnke MUSIC: Carsten Rocker NARRATOR: Dörte Lyssewski COMMISSIONING EDITORS: Christian Deick (ZDFinfo), Annette Harlfinger (ZDFinfo), Markus B. Goldschnitt (ZDFinfo), Nikolas Hülbusch (ZDF Studios)
