Macedonia under the Argead Kings

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
By supplementing literary evidence with archaeological findings, Macedonia under the Argead Kings provides a rich history of Macedonia before its most famous rulers, Philip II and Alexander the Great, while also contextualizing their reigns within these new discoveries.
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 w