A Companion to Ancient Macedonia (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

713 Pages·2010·7.01 MB·English

by  Joseph Roisman

A COMPANION TO ANCIENT MACEDONIA
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington
© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-17936-2
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A COMPANION
TO ANCIENT
MACEDONIA
Edited by
Joseph Roisman
and Ian Worthington
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Contents
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
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vi Contents
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
Sławomir 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
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Contents vii
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
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Illustrations
Maps
1 Mainland Greece xx
Adapted from map 2 in R.M. Errington, A History of
the Hellenistic World: 323–30 BC (Wiley-Blackwell 2008), pp. xvi–xvii
2 Regions of Macedonia xxi
Created for C.G. Thomas by Lance Jenott and altered
by Jason Shattuck
3 Expansion of Macedonia xxi
Created for C.G. Thomas by Lance Jenott and altered
by Jason Shattuck
4 Alexander the Great’s Conquests xxii
Taken from W. Heckel and L.A. Tritle, Alexander the Great:
A New History (Wiley-Blackwell 2009), pp. xx–xxi
5 Roman Macedonia and the Neighbouring Provinces xxiv
Created by J. Vanderspoel
6 Macedonia, Illyria and Epirus xxv
Created for W.S. Greenwalt by Elwood Mills
7 Macedonia and Thessaly xxvi
Reproduced with the permission of Yale University Press
8 Macedonia and Thrace xxvii
Copyright Z.H. Archibald
9 Macedonia in Late Antiquity xxviii
Created by C.S. Snively
10 A map of Macedonia that appeared in the New York Times on
February 4, 1993, illustrating the portrayal of the existence
of two Macedonias xxviii
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List of Illustrations ix
Figures
8.1 Macedonian royal family tree 454–336 BC (Roisman) 158
21.1 Drawing of the Lead Curse Tablet from Pella
(Christesen and Murray) 434
Reproduced with the permission of Emmanuel Voutiras
24.1 Reconstruction drawing of the Philippeum at Olympia (Hardiman) 508
Reproduced with the permission of David Boggs
25.1 Reconstruction drawing of monument of Aemilius Paullus,
about 167 BC (Kousser) 529
Plates
(between pages 356 and 357)
1 Alexander I, octodrachm, 29.06 g, 31 mm, about 475 BC,
Berlin 18200785
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2 Argilus, tetradrachm, 13.92 g, 27 mm, about 490/80 BC,
Berlin 18200925
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
3 Chalcidic League, tetradrachm, 14.43 g, 25 mm, 9 h,
about 390/80 BC, Berlin 18216681
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
4 Amphipolis, tetradrachm, 14.52 g, 26 mm, 6 h,
about 370/60 BC, Berlin 18215936
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
5 Philip II, tetradrachm, Amphipolis mint, 14.29 g, 24 mm, 7 h,
about 355–349/48 BC, Berlin 18201161
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
6 Alexander III, tetradrachm, Amphipolis mint, 17.04 g, 25 mm,
4 h, about 330 BC, Berlin 18204190
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
7 Macedonian first meris, tetradrachm, Amphipolis mint, 16.67 g,
31 mm, 12 h, about 158–150 BC, Berlin 18204055
Reproduced with the permission of the Münzkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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