ABSTRACT
Historian Theopompus of Chios, son of Damasistratus, was one of the most important historians and public men in the years leading up to and including the reigns of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great. Although there are good reasons for doubting it, Theopompus is widely credited with being one of the pioneers of "oratorical" or "tragic history", in part due to the alleged influence of the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates whose student he was later thought to have been. Given the propensity in antiquity to epitomize works and then view those epitomes as different productions from the material from which they came, it is probable that Theopompus did in fact write all of the above works. However, unlike Xenophon's text, which reports events down to 362 bc, Theopompus took his narrative down only to the year 394 bc. As the title suggests, it is an account of Greek history understood as unified by the activities of Philip; according to Polybius.
