Tristan Hughes

But it does seem to be part of giving at least this temporary peace, this stability, bringing this conflict to an end.

And it's perhaps, as I say, it's almost a throwback to how Philip would do things.

It's one of the problems that the army simply being there causes resistance.

And when it moves on, well, there's no one to resist for a start.

But also they're less inclined.

Because the army being there, it's a visible presence.

It's a challenge.

It's humiliating.

But also it wants stuff.

It keeps on eating lots of fodder, forage.

It needs meat.

It needs all of these things.

It needs leather to replace its harness.

It needs new weapons, new clothing.

It devours material in areas that are not that wealthy.

So it is starting to, it's a burden.

So moving away, and if you can move away while saving face, which is what he does, you've got enough of a success that you can say, all right, that's fair enough.

We're going, we've won.

does help to calm the situation as well in a strange way.

It's odd because in some sense, you can see if you go back quite a bit further into Greek history, the whole idea of, well, if things haven't been going well in your home city, you go off and you form a colony somewhere else.