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Macedonian Legacies
Author: Timothy Howe
Publisher:
Published: 2016-10-07
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781539365655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The people of Alexander the Great, the Ancient Macedonians, had a profound and lasting impact on world history. Macedonian Legacies, dedicated to one of the foremost experts in the field, Eugene N, Borza, traces many of the important cultural and historical contributions of Alexander's people. In 13 essays, field experts offer new research on such topics as war on land and sea, sport and athletics, empire and rule, and cultural reception In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the 'literary' and in others more towards the 'historical', but what all of the essays have in common is a critical attention to the contribution of Macedon on the world of the ancient Mediterranean.
Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History
Author: James Pettifer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1350226157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet remains unconventional in its way of life, embodies the many contradictions of modern history and in exploring its roots James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region. Drawing from oral testimonies and attentive to the construction of national histories, this book considers how the development of international borders, movement of people and role of national identities within imperial borderlands shaped Macedonia today. What is more, by centering the lakes and making use of an innovative environmental historical methodology, Pettifer and Vickers offer the first environmental history of this multi-ethnic borderland region shared by Greece, North Macedonia and Albania. The result is a nuanced and sophisticated transnational account of Macedonia from prehistory to the 21st century which will be essential reading for all Balkan scholars.
A History of Macedonian Sociology
Author: Naum Trajanovski
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 3031488695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient Macedonians in Greek and Roman Sources
Author: Tim Howe
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1910589977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider net, to show how Classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpret and sometimes misinterpret information on ancient Macedonians to serve their own literary and political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the historiographical tradition, this volume shows that the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history largely occurred much earlier. It reflected the complicated dynastic politics of the Argead royal house, the efforts of Alexander himself to redefine Macedonian kingship, and the competing strategies of the Successors to claim his legacy. Facing the complexity of the source tradition about the ancient Macedonians yields a richer and more balanced reflection of both the history and the historiography of this important and controversial people.
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
Author: Joseph Roisman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-12-06
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 1405179368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. 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
'Elliniki Istoria' "Greek History"
Author: Patrick Tapinou
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1483661075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book Elliniki Istoria, is a book about all of pre-modern Greek history, with a focus on Greek warfare and the political development of the Greek world, from it's beginnings in the Ancient era until the dawn of the early modern era. So, this book covers the Ancient Greeks from the proto-Greek culture, through to the Greek Bronze Age, Greek Dark Ages, Archaic Greek period, the Classical Age of the Greek World, the Hellenistic Age of the Greeks, and then to the Medieval Greek era of the Byzantine Greeks. The book will seek to enlighten readers on Greek military history and Greek warfare, while showing the sophistication of pre-modern Greek civilization.
Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives
Author: Thomas M. F. Gerry
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2022-04-20
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1648894453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives' provides readers with opportunities to reconnect with the origins of thought in an astonishingly wide variety of areas: politics, economics, art, spirituality, gender relations, medicine, literature, philosophy, music, and so on. As the chapters in the book show, Classical Greek thought still informs much of contemporary culture. There are countless books and articles that deal with ancient Greece historically, and a similar number that focus on Greece as a contemporary travel destination. There is both a lot of interest in Greece as a place now, and in Greece’s history and culture, which formed the early origins of much of Western civilisation. The distinctive attraction of 'Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives' is that it brings together, by means of fascinating examples, the two areas of interest: Greece’s past in relation to its, and our, present. In addition to the general interest factor, the book suggests questions for re-examination: the individual chapters provide abundant original research on their subjects, and in most cases offer critiques on the assumptions about, and the interpretations of, Greece’s ancient and contemporary cultural practices. These challenges themselves stimulate far-reaching thought and discussion, a feature highly attractive to readers (and students) wishing to develop a more in-depth understanding of the legacies of ancient Greece.
A History of Macedonia
Author: Robert Malcolm Errington
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780520063198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this single-volume history, R. Malcolm Errington provides a modern account of the political and social framework of ancient Macedon. He places particular emphasis on the structure of the Macedonian state and its functioning in different stages of historical development from the sixth to the second century B.C. Errington's main emphasis is not on the biographies of the great kings but rather on the flexible political interplay between king, nobility, and people; on the growth of cities and their political function within the state; and on the development of the army as a motor of military, social, and politicalchange.
Ancient Macedonia
Author: Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3110718685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nearly two centuries have passed since K. O. Müller published the first "scientific" study "on the habitat, the origin and the early history of the Macedonian people". An ever growing number of publications appearing each year has rendered urgent a critical appraisal of this exuberant production, the more so that many aspects of ancient Macedonia remain controversial, if not problematic. Yet after seventy years of large-scale systematic excavations the activity of Greek archaeologists, as well as the labour of scholars from all over the world, have revealed a heretofore terra incognita and given a consistency to the people that Alexander led to the end of the known world. Now more than ever before we can tackle the "main problems" that have been contested without conclusion: Where exactly was Macedonia? Which were its limits? Where did the Macedonians come from? What language did they speak? What cults did they practice? Did they believe in an afterlife? What political and social institutions did they have? What was Alexander's role in his father's death? What were his aims? To what extent can we trust ancient historians? Alexander failed to provide a stable successor to the Achaemenid multiethnic empire, and the sands of Egypt have effaced even the traces of his last abode, yet if he returned to life, he could still boast in the words of Cavafy, a modern Alexandrian in every sense, “a new Hellenic world, a great one, came to be ... with the extended dominions, with the various attempts at judicious adaptations. And the Greek koine language all the way to outer Bactria we carried it, to the peoples of India”.
