A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

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Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington
John Wiley & Sons, Dec 13, 2010 - History - 704 pages
The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike.
  • Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field
  • Examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman period and beyond
  • Discusses the importance of art, archaeology and architecture
  • All ancient sources are translated in English
  • Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for further reading
 

Selected pages

Contents

Preamble
1
Evidence
21
The Numismatic Evidence
41
Macedonia and Macedonians
63
Macedonians and Greeks
81
Rome and Beyond
99
History
125
Classical Macedonia to Perdiccas III
145
Macedonia and Thrace
326
Macedonia and Persia
342
Politics Society Economy and Culture
371
Aspects
392
Macedonian Women
409
The Macedonian Army
446
The Political Economy of Macedonia
472
Classical Art to 221 ВС
505

Philip II
166
Alexander the Great Macedonia and Asia
186
Alexanders Successors to 221 ВС
208
Macedonia and Rome 221146 вс
225
Provincia Macedonia
251
Neighbours 277
279
Macedonia and Thessaly
306
Hellenistic and Roman Art 221 BCAD 337
522
After Rome 543
545
Ancient Macedonia Alexander the Great
572
Bibliography
599
Index
651
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

A.B. Bosworth Achaemenid Alexander Alexander's alliance Amphipolis Amyntas Ancient Macedonia Antigonid Antigonus Antipater Archaeological Archelaus Argead army Asia Athenian Athens Balkans barbarians battle Cambridge campaign Carney Cassander cavalry Chalcidian chapter cities Classical Coinage coins Companion conquest court cult culture Curt death defeated Demetrius Demosthenes Diod Diodorus E.N. Borza early Empire Epirus ethnic evidence FGrH fourth century Greece Greek Hammond and Griffith Hellenic Hellenistic Heracles Herodotus History of Macedonia hunting Ian Worthington Illyrian inscriptions Iranian Justin kingdom Late Antiquity Livy M.B. Hatzopoulos Macédoine Macedon Macedonian elite Macedonian Institutions Macedonian kings military monarchy N.G.L. Hammond Olympias Oxford Pella Perdiccas Perdiccas III period Perseus Persian Philip Philip II Philippi Plut political Polyb Polybius province Ptolemy Pydna Pyrrhus region reign Republic of Macedonia Roisman Roman Rome royal ruler Shadow of Olympus sources Spartans symposia territory Thessalian Thessaloniki Thessaly Thrace Thracian Thucydides tion tombs tradition Vergina Walbank women World

About the author (2010)

Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He has authored and edited several books, among them Brill’s Companion to Alexander the Great (ed., 2003), The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005), and Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence (ed. with J.C. Yardley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Ian Worthington is Curators’ Professor of History, Department of History, University of Missouri. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on Greek history, epigraphy and oratory, including Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004), The Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and Philip II of Macedonia (2008).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Ancient Macedonia
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
EditorsJoseph Roisman, Ian Worthington
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405179368, 9781405179362
Length704 pages
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