A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.

An exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon.

The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome provides a chronicle of the last three kings of Macedonia: Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148).

During the tumultuous age of empire, Ottoman Macedonia became a blank canvas onto which Great Powers and neighboring states projected their aspirations, grievances, ambitions, and state-building endeavors.

The author's purpose in compiling this book is to help the teaching of Hellenistic history at undergraduate and graduate level by providing students and teachers with a representative selection of accurately translated documents dealing ...

The Making of a King is the first book in more than a century to tell the gripping story of the rule of Antigonus Gonatas: how he gained the Macedonian throne, how he held it, the nature of his court, the measures he took towards the Greeks ...

"Our volume tells the story of Macedon's complex relations with Greece, Egypt, and the Near East in the "middle period" of the post-Alexander era.

Hugh Poulton . . . provides a fair and perceptive account of the difficult relations between [Macedonians and Albanians in the new republic]. . . . it is one of the best guides I have read to what may be a dark and troubled future." ...

This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered.

A treasure trove of adventures, Macedonia is emerging as a top new tourist destination.

Die Frauen am Hofe Alexanders des Großen und seiner Nachfolger sowie das veränderte Rollenspektrum der Frau im Hellenismus stehen in dieser Publikation erstmals im Mittelpunkt.

The life of Arsinoë II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. This book provides the first accessible biography of this fascinating queen.

"With meticulous and wide-ranging scholarship, Professor Billows gives this vigorous, huge, and hugely ambitious figure his just deserts.

In a corrective to the standard explanations of his aims, Billows shows that Antigonos was scarcely influenced by Alexander, seeking to rule West Asia and the Aegean, rather than the whole of Alexander's Empire.

The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Engels uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible.

The chronology of the period 323-311 BC, from the death of Alexander the Great until the battle of Gaza, and the way how Diodor of Sicily depicts it in the books 18-20 of his Universal History has occupied the scholarly world from the ...

In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment ...

The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided ...

Eurydice (the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II, and grandmother of Alexander the Great) was the first royal Macedonian woman who played a role in the public life of ancient Macedonia.

This volume supplies a historical analysis of this unique source with a full translation and running commentary on Books 13-15.

A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Great's vast empire was torn asunder in the years after his death

This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age.

Traces the life of the warrior king of Macedonia who conquered and united the known world of his time.

In Power-Sharing Executives, Joanne McEvoy asks whether certain institutional rules can promote cooperation between political parties representing the contending groups in a deeply divided place.

These two volumes cover the entire period of Macedonia’s written history.

This edition features a new translation of both texts, introduction, notes, guide to military systems and terminology, maps and a full index.

In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon.

Teresa Carpenter has produced a turn-of-the-century international thriller with precision, drama, and historical perspective. This is a story for our time.

Ancient Greece.

Um Makedonien ist es wieder still geworden. Noch 1999, als es die gewaltigen Fluchtlingsstrome aus dem Kosovo zu bewaltigen hatte, stand es im Mittelpunkt des Weltinteresses.

Cassandro, figlio di Antipatro, che fu il primo re dei Macedoni estraneo alla dinastia di Alessandro, e da annoverare tra i protagonisti delle vicende del primo Ellenismo, alla cui conoscenza tanto hanno contribuito, negli ultimi decenni, ...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this single-volume history, R. Malcolm Errington provides a modern account of the political and social framework of ancient Macedon.

Anthropologist and author Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic cultural identity and the role of the state in building a nation.

The third edition of the only English-language guide to Macedonia, one of Europe's least-discovered gems.

This book investigates the kinds and quantities of treasure seized by Alexander the Great, from gold and silver to land and slaves, and reassesses the widespread belief that the Macedonian king used the profits of war to improve the ancient ...

The Alexander the Great that features in this illustrated guide is the one we are all familiar with: the king who lived a life of mythical proportions' and never lost a battle'.

Readable full-length narrative of the Third Macedonian War, which effectively made Rome an almost global power beyond compare.

This text provides an insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.

Includes information on doing genealogical research in Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Eastern Europe, Poland, and Greece and research techniques such as interpreting family histories and ancestry DNA test results, collecting personal histories ...

In all these things, Philip exceeded Alexander s triumphs.This book establishes Philip s legitimate and deserved place in military history, which, until now, has been largely minimized in favor of his son by the classicist writers who have ...

A novel from the acclaimed author of The Tiger Queens, for readers looking for “strong and determined female protagonists” (Historical Novel Society) and “a sprawling historical saga” (Renee Rosen).

It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: the greek city-states of the fourth century b.c., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; England in the twenties and thirties, and the failure to stop Germany's ...

Told in a simple narrative linking certain historical events with the great Macedonian figures Philip and Alexander, the eight stories in this book follow one another like scenes in a film.

Still the only English travel guide to the country, this second edition has been completely updated to keep up with the advances in this former Yugoslavian territory that has enjoyed independence for over a decade.

This is continued by a close analysis of Seleucus' rise to power in Babylonia, the foundation of arguably the greatest dynasty of the post-Alexander period, in which Babylonian documentary evidence is combined with the Greek literary ...

A beautiful priestess of the Goddess, sister to the Queen of Epiros, is compelled by her destiny to seek out and wed the most powerful man of the time, King Philip of Macedon.

Contains geographical, political, economic assessments for the British delegates to the 1919-1920 Paris Peace Conference.

Classicist James Romm tells the story of the men who followed Alexander and found themselves incapable of preserving his empire--a world formerly united, now ripped apart into a nightmare of warring nation-states struggling for domination, ...

A study into accounts of Rome's foreign policy surrounding an offensive against Philip V and Greece.