Ancient Macedonia - Softcover

King, Carol J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415827280 ISBN 13: 9780415827287

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The first English-language monograph on ancient Macedonia in almost thirty years, Carol J. King's book aims to provide a detailed narrative account of the rise and fall of Macedonian power in the Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean region during the five-hundred-year period of the Macedonian monarchy from the seventh to the second century BCE. King draws largely on ancient literary sources for her account, citing both contemporary and later classical authors. Material evidence from the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics is also explored.

Ancient Macedonia balances historical evidence with interpretations, those of the author as well as other historians, and encourages the reader to engage closely with the source material and the historical questions which that material often raises. This volume will be of great interest to both under- and post-graduate students, and those looking to understand the fundamentals of the period.

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Review

This authoritative, well-written narrative history of ancient Macedonia, from its early days to absorption by Rome, is sorely needed, and will become a staple of university courses to do with ancient Greece and Macedonia. The numerous illustrations help to bring the text alive, and a stand-alone chapter on the Macedonian military helps to show how and why the army was the most feared and successful before that of Rome.

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- Professor Ian Worthington, University of Missouri, USA

About the Author

Carol J. King is Associate Professor of Classics at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. King is an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece (Regular Member 2001 2002, Senior Associate Member 2013 2014), and a past Research Assistant at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC (1999 2000). She has taught classics courses at several universities in the US and Canada. Her primary research focuses on the historiography of Alexander the Great and the literary evidence for ancient Macedonia more broadly. In addition to political and military history, she has also published on divination practices in ancient Macedonia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0415827280
• ISBN 13: 9780415827287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308