In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon

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Princeton University Press, 1992 - 347 pages
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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 of ancient history. He draws from recent archaeological discoveries and an enhanced understanding of historical geography to form a narrative that provides a material-culture setting for political events. Examining the dynamics of Macedonian relations with the Greek city-states, he suggests that the Macedonians, although they gradually incorporated aspects of Greek culture into their own society, maintained a distinct ethnicity as a Balkan people. "Borza has taken the trouble to know Macedonia: the land, its prehistory, its position in the Balkans, and its turbulent modern history. All contribute...to our understanding of the emergence of Macedon.... Borza has employed two of the historian's most valuable tools, autopsy and common sense, to produce a well-balanced introduction to the state that altered the course of Greek and Near Eastern history."--Waldemar Heckel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

 

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Table des matières

The Land of Macedonia
23
Prehistoric Macedonia
58
Who Were the Macedonians?
77
Alexander I
98
Perdiccas II
132
Archelaus
161
8
177
9
183
The Greatest of the Kings in Europe
198
Political Institutions in the Age of Philip and Alexander
231
Material Culture in the Age of Philip and Alexander
253
The Emergence of Macedon
277
Some Bibliographical Notes
283
Some Diverse Endnotes
292
Addenda to the Paperback Edition
301
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Page 206 - ... rather on each occasion used to contract marriages to do with (? according to) (the) war (currently in hand). At any rate, "in the twenty-two years he was king", as Satyros says in his biography of him, "he married Audata the Illyrian and had from her a daughter Kynna. And then he married Phila, a sister of Derdas and Machatas. Then, as he wanted to appropriate the Thessalian people as well, on grounds of kinship, he fathered children by two Thessalian women, one of whom was Nikesipolis of Pherai,...
Page xvi - BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies BSA Annual of the British School at Athens...
Page xiv - Generous grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies and...
Page xvii - Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. REA - Revue des Études Anciennes. REG = Revue des Études Grecques.
Page 243 - army assembly" was constituted to elect a king (as some have argued), why did it not function in June 323? And why (if one accepts the story of the king's last words) did a small group of generals ask the dying Alexander about his choice of successor? Who would enforce such a decision? In the course of the confusion, Perdiccas held the ring (whatever that signified), Ptolemy proposed rule by a junta, and a throng of soldiers pushed for Arrhidaeus.
Page 306 - As a question of method: why would an area three hundred miles north of Athens — not colonized by Athens — use an Attic dialect, unless it were imported? That is, the Attic dialect could hardly be native, and its use is likely part of the process of hellenization. To put the question differently: if the native language of the Macedonians is Greek, what is its Macedonian dialect?
Page 96 - What ever the ethnic origins and identity of the Macedonians, they were generally perceived in their own time by Greeks and themselves not to be Greek.
Page 280 - Greeks never held more than a handful of important posts, and for the most part their acknowledged skills in a number of administrative, athletic, and artistic endeavors were exploited by Alexander in about the same manner as they had been by Darius and Xerxes. Under the most absolute monarchy in their history, the Macedonians in Asia turned out to be terribly ethnocentric, without even the tolerance exhibited by their Persian predecessors.
Page 280 - Yet we have seen that the Macedonians were perfectly capable of both borrowing from and modifying foreign influences in order to suit their own needs. The use of Hellenism and Orientalism by Philip may have been designed to accomplish a specific end: to rule both Greeks and Asians while retaining the traditional hold on the Macedonians themselves.

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À propos de l'auteur (1992)

Borza is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at The Pennsylvania State University.

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