Editing Philip III of Macedon (section)

==Arrhidaeus in fiction==
He appears as one of the main characters in the novel ''[[Funeral Games (novel)|Funeral Games]]'' by [[Mary Renault]]. In Renault's version, the villainous Cassander slows down his advance on Macedonia to give Olympias enough time to kill Arrhidaeus and Eurydice.

Arrhidaeus is also a main character in [[Annabel Lyon]]'s novel ''The Golden Mean''. In it, the young Arrhidaeus is tutored by Aristotle while he also mentors his younger half-brother, the future Alexander the Great. Alexander, who is initially disgusted with his brother's inferior intellect, learns to love him before he sets out to conquer the world.

In the Japanese fiction manga ''[[Historie]]'', he was shown as an intellectually disabled child, who became happy when [[Eumenes]] made him a toy chariot and became sad when [[Alexander the Great]] destroyed his toy. Eumenes later replaced it with a new one, telling him to bury the chariot.

Arrhideaus is also portrayed in the Indian historical drama series [[Porus (TV series)|''Porus'']].

Phillip is a prominent character in the [[Eric Flint]] novel ''The Alexander Inheritance'' and its sequel ''The Macedonian Hazard.'' Phillip is portrayed as having an affectionate relationship with Eurydice that is marred by his inability to stand being touched. The appearance of a cruise ship of time travelers a few months after Alexander's death changes history, and prevents Phillip and Eurydice's deaths, although they spend a time as prisoners of [[Antigonus I Monophthalamus]]. He is portrayed as having a [[spectrum disorder]], but a photographic memory and a talent for mental arithmetic. His condition improves after sessions from a therapist among the time travelers, along with medical marijuana and other drugs, and fathers a child with Eurydice in the second book.