It has taken almost 25 years to get an agreement between the governments in Athens and Skopje on what to call the entity once known as the Former Yugoslav Republic …
PHILIP II. (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia, the son of Amyntas II., and the Lyncestian Eurydice, reigned 359-336. At his birth the Macedonian kingdom, including the turbulent peoples of the …
Alexan’der the Great, son of Philip of Macedon, was born at Pella, in 356 B. C. Gifted by nature and carefully educated by Aristotle, he early gave promise of his …
ALEXANDER III, known as The Great[1] (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, was the son of Philip II. of Macedon, and Olympias, an Epirote princess. His father was pre-eminent for practical …
Preface This letter about ancient Macedonia was sent to the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, by 200 Classical Scholars from around the world. The number of …
ALEXANDER. What fellow art thou, who darest thus to lie at thy ease in our presence, when all others, as thou seest, rise to do us homage? dost thou not know …
Olga Palagia delivered a webinar on behalf of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on 1 April, on Macedonian painting. She opposed basic patterns of Macedonian paintings to …
In November 333, Akexander defeated the Persian king Darius III. After this battle of Issus, Darius offered to surrender half of his empire. The Macedonian king considered this not enough; the Greek author Arrian of Nicomedia describes Alexander’s …