In the Shadow of Olympus : : The Emergence of Macedon / / Eugene N. Borza.

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 disco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1990
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1 Toward a History of Ancient Macedonia
  • 2 The Land of Macedonia
  • 3 Prehistoric Macedonia
  • 4 Who Were the Macedonians?
  • 5 Alexander I
  • 6 Perdiccas II
  • 7 Archelaus
  • 8 The House of Amyntas III
  • 9 " . . . The Greatest of the Kings in Europe . . ."
  • 10 Political Institutions in the Age of Philip and Alexander
  • 11 Material Culture in the Age of Philip and Alexander
  • 12 The Emergence of Macedon
  • APPENDIX A. Some Bibliographical Notes
  • APPENDIX B. Some Topographical Notes
  • APPENDIX C. Some Diverse Endnotes
  • APPENDIX D. Addenda to the Paperback Edition
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX