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
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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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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).
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