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Pharaoh. Egyptian king’s title. =“great house”. Physical embodiment of god Ra.
Phidias. c490-430BC. Greek sculptor. Parthenon frieze. 42 foot gold and ivory statue of Zeus at Olympia. 7 Wonders.
Philadelphia. Greek name for Amman, Jordan.
Philby, Kim. 1912-88. British/Soviet double agent 1933-51. Escaped to USSR 1963. My Secret War 1968.
Philip. Metacom. -1676. Led Massasoit in King Philip’s War.
Philip I. 1052-1108. French king 1060-. Recovered Normandy for France.
Philip I. The Handsome. 1478-1506. King of Castile 1504-. Established Spanish Hapsburg line by marrying daughter of Ferdinand II.
Philip II. 1165-1223. French Capetian king 1179-. 3rd Crusade. Conquered Flanders. Doubled France. Fought Richard the Lion Heart for Angevin Empire.
Philip II. 1527-98. Spanish king. Revolt, 1579. Married Mary I of England. Sent Armada against Elizabeth I, 1588. Counter-Reformation champion.
Philip IV. The Fair. 1268-1314. French Capetian king 1285-. Taxed Roman Catholic Church. Ended Templars.
Philip IV. 1605-65. Spanish king 1621-. Lost Portugal, Catalonia, Utrecht.
Philip V. 238-179BC. Macedonian king 221-. Defeated by Rome.
Philip V. The Tall. 1293-1322. French king 1316-. Succeeded over Joan by Salic Law.
Philip V. 1683-1746. First Bourbon king of Spain 1700-. Accession led to War of Spanish Succession, loss of Netherlands and Italian possessions. War of Polish Succession.
Philip VI. 1293-1350. French Valois king 1328-1350.
Philip the Good. 1396-1467. Valois Duke of Burgundy 1419-. Allied with England vs France.
Philippi, Battle. 42BC. Antony and Octavian beat republicans Brutus and Cassius.
Philo. c20BC-50. Alexandrian Jew. Reconciled Jewish faith with Greek reason.
Philoctetes. Mythical Greek warrior. Killed Paris at Troy.
Philomela. Mythical Greek princess. Raped by Tereus. Tongue cut out.
Philostratus. 3C Greek Sophist. Lives of Sophists. Imagines.
Phocaea. Ionian city. Settled Anatolia 10C BC. Colonized Dardanelles, Mediterranean, Black Sea.
Phoebe. Greek Titan, associated with moon.
Phoenix Park Murders. 1882. British Secretary and Undersecretary of Ireland killed by terrorists.
Phrygia. 13-6C BC. Kingdom dominating Asia Minor.