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Ancient Macedonians in the Greek And Roman Sources.. From History to Historiography.
Edited by Timothy Howe and Frances Pownall
ISBN-13 9781910589700 ISBN-10 1910589705, hardback, xv 301pp, 2018
 
Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection, by an international team of scholars, cast a wider net. They show how classical Greek, hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted, sometimes misinterpreted, 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.
 

The contributors

Victor Alonso Troncoso, Sulochana Asirvatham, Hugh Bowden, Elizabeth Carney, Rebecca Frank, Timothy Howe, Paul Johstono, Alexander Meeus. Sabine Müller. Daniel Ogden. Frances Pownall
 
Contents

Introduction

PART I: SUCCESSION AND THE ROLE OF ROYAL WOMEN

1.A Founding Mother? Eurydike I, Philip II and Macedonian Royal Mythology - Timothy Howe

2. Royal Women as Succession Advocates - Elizabeth Carney

3. A Roman Olympias: Powerful Women in the Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus - Rebecca Frank

PART II: PHILIA, POLITICS AND ALLIANCES

4.Was Kallisthenes the Tutor of Alexander’s Royal Pages? - Frances Pownall

5. Hephaistion –A Reassessment of his Career - Sabine Müller

6. Friendship and Betrayal: The Alliances among the Diadochoi - Alexander Meeus

PART III: ROYAL SELF-PRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY

7. The Animal Types on the Argead Coinage, Wilderness and Macedonia - Victor Alonso Troncoso

8. Alexander as Achilles: Arrian’s use of Homer from Troy to the Granikos - Hugh Bowden

9. The Grand Procession, Galaterschlacht, and Ptolemaic Kingship - Paul Johstono

PART IV: THE MEMORY OF ALEXANDER

10. Legends of Seleukos’ death, from omens to revenge - Daniel Ogden

11. The memory of Alexander in Plutarch’s Lives of Demetrios, Pyrrhos, and Eumenes - Sulochana Asirvatham

Index
 

Classical Review 2020, 433-6.

"The great value of this volume is that it successfully shows how contemporary concerns affected the portrayal of the Argead dynasty, Alexander and the successors. While this dis_x0002_tortion, manipulation and misrepresentation are often examined in relation to the surviving sources from the Roman era, the strong focus in this volume on the ‘invented tradition’ among the first generation is a great addition to the scholarship." Benjamin Pedersen,