A Companion to Ancient Macedonia (eBook)

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).

List of Illustrations viii

List of Contributors xii

Preface xiv

Notes on Style xvi

List of Abbreviations xvii

Maps xx

PART I Preamble 1

1 Why Study Ancient Macedonia and What this Companion is About
3

Edward M. Anson

PART II Evidence 21

2 The Literary and Epigraphic Evidence to the Roman Conquest
23

P. J. Rhodes

3 The Numismatic Evidence 41

Karsten Dahmen

PART III Macedonia and Macedonians 63

4 The Physical Kingdom 65

Carol G. Thomas

5 Macedonians and Greeks 81

Johannes Engels

6 Perspectives on the Macedonians from Greece, Rome, and Beyond
99

Sulochana R. Asirvatham

PART IV History 125

7 The Early Temenid Kings to Alexander I 127

S³awomir Sprawski

8 Classical Macedonia to Perdiccas III 145

Joseph Roisman

9 Philip II 166

Sabine Müller

10 Alexander the Great, Macedonia and Asia 186

Dawn L. Gilley and Ian Worthington

11 Alexander's Successors to 221 BC 208

Winthrop Lindsay Adams

12 Macedonia and Rome, 221-146 BC 225

Arthur M. Eckstein

13 Provincia Macedonia 251

John Vanderspoel

PART V Neighbours 277

14 Macedonia, Illyria and Epirus 279

William S. Greenwalt

15 Macedonia and Thessaly 306

Denver Graninger

16 Macedonia and Thrace 326

Zosia Archibald

17 Macedonia and Persia 342

Marek Jan Olbrycht

PART VI Politics, Society, Economy and Culture 371

18 Macedonian Kingship and Other Political Institutions
373

Carol J. King

19 Social Customs and Institutions: Aspects of Macedonian Elite
Society 392

Noriko Sawada

20 Macedonian Women 409

Elizabeth Carney

21 Macedonian Religion 428

Paul Christesen and Sarah C. Murray

22 The Macedonian Army 446

Nicholas Victor Sekunda

23 The Political Economy of Macedonia 472

Paul Millett

24 Classical Art to 221 BC 505

Craig I. Hardiman

25 Hellenistic and Roman Art, 221 BC-AD 337 522

Rachel Kousser

PART VII After Rome 543

26 Macedonia in Late Antiquity 545

Carolyn S. Snively

27 Ancient Macedonia, Alexander the Great and the Star or Sun of
Vergina: National Symbols and the Conflict between Greece and the
Republic of Macedonia 572

Loring M. Danforth

Bibliography 599

Index 651

"Like others in the publisher's Companions to the Ancient World
series, this volume is intended primarily as an engaging resource
for students new to the subject and scholars in related fields, and
yet these "companions" are also useful for scholars within the
fields under consideration who seek well-rounded, up-to-date
references." (Booknews, 1 February 2011)



"In this volume editor Roisman (classics, Colby College) and
Worthington (history, U. of Missouri) have brought together work
from an international roster of contributors. The lead article
discusses the dramatic changes in scholarly emphasis of the last 30
years that have brought ancient Macedonia to the fore, in
particular increased attention to the role played by Alexander the
Great's father. Ten maps and a set of 28 plates support this
well-organized collection of 27 contributed chapters. Like others
in the publisher's Companions to the Ancient World series,
this volume is intended primarily as an engaging resource for
students new to the subject and scholars in related fields, and yet
these "companions" are also useful for scholars within the fields
under consideration who seek well-rounded, up-to-date references.
Articles are specially commissioned to cover political, military,
social, economic and cultural history, as well as material
culture." (Reference and Research Book News, February
2011)"Overall, this Companion provides a lucid and comprehensive
introduction to the study of ancient Macedonia." (The
Anglo-Hellenic Review, 1 March 2011)