Good day everyone, I’m Elena and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia: Alexander the Great and Hellenism. Today I’ve a wonderful news about a new paperback edition of something important which I’m sure will be beautiful:
A Companion To Ancient Macedonia
by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, Paperback
This title will be released on June 22, 2023
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.
Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He has authored and edited several books, among them Brill’s Companion to Alexander the Great (ed., 2003), The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005), and Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence (ed. with J.C. Yardley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
- 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
Ian Worthington is Curators’ Professor of History, Department of History, University of Missouri. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on Greek history, epigraphy and oratory, including Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004), The Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and Philip II of Macedonia (2008).
Paperback version
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 978-1119266808
696 pages
39,52 €
This is a to-buy book: the hardback edition almost costs 200 € but this version is at a much more reasonable price and I was no longer hoping for a cheaper version to come out but it’s finally out and I can’t wait to read it!. If you would like to save a Google Calendar alert you find it HERE.
Table of contents:
Front Matter (Pages: i-xxvii)
Colour Plates (Pages: c1-c16)
Part I : Preamble
CHAPTER 1
Why Study Ancient Macedonia and What this Companion is about (Pages: 1-20)
Edward M. Anson
Part II : Evidence
CHAPTER 2
The Literary and Epigraphic Evidence to the Roman Conquest (Pages: 21-40)
P. J. Rhodes
CHAPTER 3
The Numismatic Evidence (Pages: 41-62)
Karsten Dahmen
Part III : Macedonia and Macedonians
CHAPTER 4
The Physical Kingdom (Pages: 63-80)
Carol G. Thomas
CHAPTER 5
Macedonians and Greeks (Pages: 81-98)
Johannes Engels
CHAPTER 6
Perspectives on the Macedonians from Greece, Rome, and Beyond (Pages: 99-124)
Sulochana R. Asirvatham
Part IV : History
CHAPTER 7
The Early Temenid Kings to Alexander I (Pages: 125-144)
Sławomir Sprawski
CHAPTER 8
Classical Macedonia to Perdiccas III (Pages: 145-165)
Joseph Roisman
CHAPTER 9
Philip II (Pages: 166-185)
Sabine Müller
CHAPTER 10
Alexander the Great, Macedonia and Asia (Pages: 186-207)
Dawn L. Gilley, Ian Worthington
CHAPTER 11
Alexander’s Successors to 221 BC (Pages: 208-224)
Winthrop Lindsay Adams
CHAPTER 12
Macedonia and Rome, 221–146 BC (Pages: 225-250)
Arthur M. Eckstein
CHAPTER 13
Provincia Macedonia (Pages: 251-275)
John Vanderspoel
Part V : Neighbours
CHAPTER 14
Macedonia, Illyria and Epirus (Pages: 277-305)
William S. Greenwalt
CHAPTER 15
Macedonia and Thessaly (Pages: 306-325)
Denver Graninger
CHAPTER 16
Macedonia and Thrace (Pages: 326-341)
Zosia Archibald
CHAPTER 17
Macedonia and Persia (Pages: 342-369)
Marek Jan Olbrycht
Part VI : Politics, Society, Economy and Culture
CHAPTER 18
Macedonian Kingship and other Political Institutions (Pages: 371-391)
Carol J. King
CHAPTER 19
Social Customs and Institutions: Aspects of Macedonian Elite Society (Pages: 392-408)
Noriko Sawada
CHAPTER 20
Macedonian Women (Pages: 409-427)
Elizabeth Carney
CHAPTER 21
Macedonian Religion (Pages: 428-445)
Paul Christesen, Sarah C. Murray PhD student in Classics
CHAPTER 22
The Macedonian Army (Pages: 446-471)
Nicholas Victor Sekunda
CHAPTER 23
The Political Economy of Macedonia (Pages: 472-504)
Paul Millett
CHAPTER 24
Classical Art to 221 BC (Pages: 505-521)
Craig I. Hardiman
CHAPTER 25
Hellenistic and Roman Art, 221 BC–AD 337 (Pages: 522-542)
Rachel Kousser
Part VII : After Rome
CHAPTER 26
Macedonia in Late Antiquity (Pages: 543-571)
Carolyn S. Snively
CHAPTER 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 (Pages: 572-598)
Loring M. Danforth
Bibliography (Pages: 599-650)
Index (Pages: 651-668)
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Alessandro III di Macedonia 