sentences:  The war with Philip II of Macedon ended in a victory for Philip (the father of Alexander the Great).The Scythian king Ateas fell in battle well into his nineties.Many royal kurgans (Chertomlyk, Kul-Oba, Aleksandropol, Krasnokut) date from after Ateas's time and previous traditions were continued; and life in the settlements of Western Scythia show that the state survived until the 250s BC.