Macedonia under the Argead Kings: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower

Ancient Macedonia is often synonymous with Alexander the Great.After all, his conquests stretched the Macedonian Empire thousands of miles wide, and during his reign Macedonia was without equal.Alexander and his father, Philip II, who raised Macedonia to superpower status, still dominate our perceptions of this ancient kingdom and empire.Macedonian kings before Philip and Alexander are often portrayed as their opposites--weak and ineffectual--but this book proves that this is a mistake.While Macedonia under the Argead Kings covers the reigns of Philip, Alexander, and his immediate successors, it takes an even closer look at what life was like in Macedonia before its most famous rulers.While the literary evidence speaks of Macedonia's internal disunity during this period, as well as its dynastic upheavals, it is important to note that the authors of this literature were often Greeks, who had very different perspectives of what their enemies, the Macedonians, were like.This book suppleme