Macedonian Legacies:
Studies in Ancient Macedonian History and Culture
in Honor of Eugene N. Borza

      This new volume is a justified addition to library shelves, not only because it celebrates one of the foremost scholars in the field, but also for the strides in new research offered here in Gene Borza’s honor. This volume’s contributors include some of the most distinguished names currently involved in Macedonian scholarship and related areas of ancient history. The range of papers is impressive—in areas, in disciplines, and in foci.
 
     Carol Thomas’s opening essay surveys the attitudes, internal and external, ancient and modern, toward ancient Macedonia and “centers” this heretofore “peripheral” border state—just as the study of Macedonia itself (not only of Alexander and Philip) has come increasingly into focus among Hellenists, beginning with the work of Charles F. Edson and N. G. L. Hammond in the late 1960s and early 1970s. So instead of looking into Macedonia from the Greek-Athenian south, this collection hopes to look out from the north—a particularly Macedonian view. The closing paper comes from Kenneth Harl, writing on the battle of Magnesia, which might be seen as the sunset of Macedonian power brought about by yet another initially peripheral state that re-centered that periphery: Rome.
 
      In between Thomas’s and Harl’s papers are a wealth of other essays that employ recent archaeology, art history, social history, military history, philology, comparative literary analysis, prosopography, political analysis and even interdisciplinary work utilizing the social sciences. What is particularly exciting about these papers is how they often combine academic disciplines in fruitful ways to shine new light on old questions.

Editors: Timothy Howe and Jeanne Reames
Publication Date: 11 June 2009

310 Pages (PB)                                                $24.95