Philip was the son of Amyntas by a mother whose name is unknown.
[1] He served as a military officer in the service of the Greek king Alexander the Great.
[6] Pausanias (1.7.1), criticises his marriage to Berenice I and describes him as "a Macedonian but of no note and of lowly origin".
By 317 BC, Berenice married Ptolemy I and became the queen mother of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
As a posthumous honour to Philip, his son Magas, when he served as a priest of the Greek God Apollo, had dedicated an honorific inscription proudly naming him as "the eponymous priest" and "Magas, son of Philip".