A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

I was brought up with the traditional notion of Macedonia being simply the kingdom which produced Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, the subject of the Philippics of Demosthenes: until more recent scholarship has re‐evaluated the period, poor Philip was always viewed by history as the man who brought an end to Classical Greece. Macedonia merits study as an important kingdom in its own right, quite apart from its significant geographical position in the Balkans between Europe and Asia, and its historical position between Classical and Hellenistic Greece. So, the first half of the title of the introductory...