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""En Filipo II y el Arte de la Guerra tendremos la oportunidad de conocer en profundidad a uno de los más grandes reyes de la antigua Macedonia. Gracias a su habilidad como estratega, diplomático, político y soldado, heredó un reino... more
Ancient Macedonia, The Macedonic Wars 320-270 bce
Macedonian empire division after the death of Alexander III of Macedon and civil wars between the Macedonic kingdoms ruled by Macedonian dynasties.
Macedonian empire division after the death of Alexander III of Macedon and civil wars between the Macedonic kingdoms ruled by Macedonian dynasties.
An appendix of the deciphered words and terms from the middle text of the Rosetta Stone.
Original English version of R. Strootman, Regalità e vita di corte in età ellenistica’, in: M. Mari ed., L’età ellenistica. Società, politica, cultura (Rome: Carocci Editore, 2019) 133–144.
The death of Perdiccas, son of Orontes, during his invasion of Egypt is a fact hardly understandable, so that we can find different explanations for this event. The main goal of this paper is to establish a connection between Perdiccas'... more
The immemorial timeworn creation myths of the world, of the Supreme Creator-God from the sky, the Great Mother-Goddess of the Earth, the birth of the young Sun-God, myths of the Moon that gets to the earth and turns into a cow, conception... more
Талах В. Н. Рожденный под знаком кометы: Митридат Эвпатор Дионис / В. Н. Талах; под ред. В. Н. Талаха, С. А. Куприенко. — изд. 2-е, доп. и перераб. — Киев: Видавець Купрієнко С. А., 2013. — 215 с. : ил. — ISBN 978-617-7085-08-8.
Овој труд претставува фрагмент од историскиот дел на докторската дисертација на Ранко Младеноски со наслов „Ликот на Александар Македонски како интерактивен код на културите во македонската книжевност“ што беше одбранет на Филолошкиот... more
An argument for Cynane the daughter of Philip II.
Published in: Jubilaeus VII in memoriam Professoris Margaritae Tachevae
Published in: Jubilaeus VII in memoriam Professoris Margaritae Tachevae
This paper seeks to bring Cleopatra, 7th and final wife of Philip II of Macedon, out of the shadows by decoupling her murder from the assassination of Philip and thereby answering two interrelated questions: (1) why were Cleopatra and... more
Olympias of Epirus is one of the main characters in the history of the emergency of Macedonia as an international power with Philip II and Alexander. Nevertheless, despite the many books, papers and studies that had been improving our... more
The dearth of accurately datable documents from the time (323–c. 275 BCE) of Alexander the Great’s Successors (also known as the Diadochi or Diadochoi) has contributed to uncertainty regarding the dating of key events from this time. In... more
The Iconography of Macedonian queens from Macedon (5th and 4th century B.C.) to the Hellenistic kingdoms. Roots, associations, developments, later tradition. Hera the queen of Olymp, the representations of the Macedonian queens (Euridice,... more
Course Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic Age (roughly the 16 th to the 1 st centuries BCE), drawing on both source materials and modern... more
This paper focuses on the figure of Alexander the Great in a set of Macedonian folk traditions circulating in Northern Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Macedonian Alexander-folk traditions represent a peculiar set... more
An epigraphical survey (with digital mapping component) of Greece and Magna Graecia reveals a pattern as to where Hephais-based names appear, up through the second century BCE. Spelled with an /eta/, these names are almost exclusively... more
After careful comparison of the finds of Archontiko with the new unearthings from Aigai and the wider region of Macedon it seems more likely that the Macedonians had not expanded to Axios River before the last decade of the sixth century.... more
Трудот претставува интерпретација на македонските книжевни дела во кои фигурира историската личност Александар III Македонски како лик со доминантна улога на интерактивен код на културите. Се тргнува од тезата дека со ликот на Александар... more
Основната цел на овој труд е да се афирмираат и да се актуелизираат неколку суштински, но истовремено и нејасни и дискутабилни проблемски прашања од македонската фолклористика поврзани со местото и улогата на античко-македонскиот крал... more
The Balkan peninsula has long been considered as Europe’s tinderbox; and with good reason! With so many languages, ethnic groups (or peoples), and religious systems, the Balkans lived their most peaceful period of their millennia long... more
Edited with Michael Stuart Williams. Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, ‘both king and father of all’. More recently, however,... more
El descuartizamiento de una perra como ceremonia de purificación previa a un combate ritual que el ejército macedonio celebraba en las Jándicas podría tener relación con el culto a la diosa Enodia, una diosa equivalente a Hécate en el... more
Hesychius' Macedonian words are those which he assigns to the Macedonians as a whole, as well as to individual Macedonians such as Amerias, Alexander, Marsyas, etc. These terms are analyzed through and Indo - European perspective to find... more
A study on the siege machinery and tactics by Alexander the great from Thebes to Gaza.
A compilation of the attested Macedonian words in the Suda Lexicon
This article is about the study of a hoard of seventeen bronze coins found near the new entrance of the archaeological site of Pella.This hoard constitutes one of the few known cases of numismatic concealment during the lifetime of Philip... more
In this paper the excavation of 2009, that brought to light part of Pella's north forification of the Classical period, is presented. Trial trenches led us to the dating of this wall in the late 5th or early 4th century BC. Furthermore,... more
The body of preserved data on the first Persian incursion on the northern coast of the Aegean is rather small. A dissection of the information preserved in Herodotus, combined with a detailed analysis of the features of local geography,... more
A compilation of all of the attested Macedonian words in the lexicon made by Hesychius of Alexandria. (The previous one was taken down to correct for an error. All of the translations are now correct.)
This is the first part of Chapter 1 of my Honours thesis (1980). It begins with a brief discussion of basic military principles and of relevant tactical unit types. A much more detailed discussion of the function of Light Infantry,... more
espanolLa muerte de Perdiccas, hijo de Orontes, durante su invasion de Egipto es un hecho dificil de comprender, por lo que podemos encontrar diferentes explicaciones para este evento. El objetivo principal de este articulo es establecer... more
The secret of the Kastas tomb revealed