Editing Darius III (section)

=== Philip's campaign ===
Bagoas soon attempted to poison Darius III as well, but his plans were discovered. Darius III summoned Bagoas and asked him to drink a toast for him, giving him his cup which was filled with poison. Bagoas was forced to drink the cup, resulting in his death.<ref name="DIO XVII 5">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/17A*.html#8 Book XVII, Chapter 5].</ref>{{sfn|Heckel|2020|pp=11–12}} This happened around the time of Alexander's accession to the Macedonian throne in the autumn of 336 BC.{{sfn|Badian|2000|p=252}} At the start of Darius III's reign, [[Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt|Egypt]] and Babylon may have briefly been plunged into rebellion. Regardless, they were seemingly not of heavy significance, as reports about the events quickly disappear.{{sfn|EIr.|1994|pp=51–54}}

In 336 BC [[Philip II of Macedon]] was authorized by the [[League of Corinth]] as its [[Hegemony|Hegemon]] to initiate a sacred war of vengeance against the Persians for desecrating and burning the [[Athens|Athenian]] temples during the [[Greco-Persian Wars#Later Conflicts|Second Persian War]], over a century before. He sent an advance force into [[Anatolia|Asia Minor]] under the command of his generals [[Parmenion]] and [[Attalus (general)|Attalus]] to liberate the Greeks living under Persian control. After they took the Greek cities of Asia from [[Troy]] to the [[Büyük Menderes River|Maiandros river]], Philip was assassinated and his campaign was suspended while his heir consolidated his control of Macedonia and the rest of Greece.