A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

Language: English

Pages: 696

ISBN: 1405179368

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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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424/3 that records in chronological order four Athenian decrees regarding the city of Methone on the Macedonian coast of the Thermaic Gulf. The second and perhaps the third of them were moved in 426/5, and the fourth (now lost) in 424/3. Although there is no agreement on the date of the first motion, I subscribe to the view that it was passed in 430/29.12 After discussing the option of forgiving Methone its debts to the Athenian treasury (or perhaps to that of the Delian League), the first decree.

The frequent occurrence of a portrait of the emperor and his family, we also find references to the imperial cult. A cult of Divus Iulius is recorded, for example in Thessaloniki, where the epigraphic record of a temple to him is supported by coins with the portrait of the deified Caesar and Augustus.69 In the colony of Philippi, the actual statue group 65 66 67 68 69 Cassandreia: A. Burnett, M. Amandry and P. Pau Ripollès (eds.), Roman Provincial Coinage 1, From the Death of Caesar to the.

Orientation. The region of Tymphaea lies in the eastern slopes of the Pindus massif southeast of Elimeia, thus standing astride routes to Thessaly and to Epirus. As a result it is often placed in the sphere of Epirus.30 The second region, Perrhaebia, is also a mountainous region nestled in both the Mount Bournio and Mount Olympus massifs with a southern orientation toward the Thessalian plain. They were not incorporated into the expanding kingdom as early as Elimeia, Orestis, Lyncestis and.

Religion is discussed by P. Christesen and S.C. Murray in chapter 21. It is dated to the mid- to early fourth century and shows a curse by the present consort on Dionysophon and his projected gamos (marriage) with another woman. This has been judged to be the most important ancient testimony to substantiate the theory that Macedonian was a north-western Greek and mainly Doric dialect (SEG 43.434).41 In the near future one may expect more interesting studies on the origins and the diffusion of.

Aspects of the Hellenic ideal also exploit the Macedonians, but negatively, as an integral part of Alexander’s background that must be suppressed if he is to become successful. For the philosopher Dio Chrysostom, Alexander must be true to his descent from Heracles (here a Cynic model) and temper the warlike (that is, Macedonian) disposition of himself and his Macedonian soldiers with philosophy (Dio, an oblique writer, implies this, for example, in Or. 1.6, 4.8).26 And for Plutarch, Alexander’s.

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