In the Shadow of Olympus
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Aegae (Achaea)
Amphipolis
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek coinage
Ancient Macedonians
Archaeology
Archaic Greece
Argead dynasty
Arrhabaeus
Arrhidaeus
Arrian
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Balkans
Brasidas
Bronze Age
Burial
Cassander
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Central Macedonia
Chalkidiki
City-state
Classical Greece
Culture of Greece
Demosthenes
Early Period
Emathia
Epigraphy
Epirus
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Greek World
Greeks
Haliacmon
Hegemony
Hellenistic period
Hellenization
Herodotus
Illyrians
Literature
Lyncus
Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Macedonia (Greece)
Molossians
Monarchy
Mycenaean Greece
Northern Greece
Olynthus
Orestis (region)
Paeonia (kingdom)
Peloponnese
Perdiccas
Philhellenism
Polis
Potidaea
Prehistory
Pydna
Sitalces
Strepsa
Thasos
The Persians
Thermaic Gulf
Thessaloniki
Thessaly
Thracian treasure
Thracians
Thucydides
Tomb
Upper Macedonia
Vergina
Veria
Via Egnatia
Warfare
Western Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008806
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
