Macedonia

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Alexander I of Macedon between Persia and Greece: his sister's marriage to a Persian governor suggests submission, yet as a friend of Athens he advises the Greeks while assisting Xerxes' march through his lands.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam explore the life of the Macedonian king and general Alexander the Great, weighing four film versions, Irish accents, and a slip mixing Persian Wars with Peloponnesian.

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With Pat Wheatley

Professor Pat Wheatley of the University of Otago discusses Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great, who conquered vast territory in a short time and defeated the formidable Achaemenid Empire.

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With Elizabeth D. Carney

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The herald Eurybates tells Unnefer of Ptolemy the Macedonian's early life: his upbringing, his education in Pella, his service at Chaeronea, and the sack of Thebes.

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With Ian Worthington

Dr Ian Worthington, Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, discusses King Philip II of Macedon, famous on a number of counts, among them being the father of Alexander the Great.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Philip II of Macedon, 359 to 336 BC, often neglected beside his son, saves a crumbling backwater kingdom and through reforms, diplomacy and generalship makes it the dominant power of the Greek Peninsula.

Part of Tides of History

The episode credits Philip the One-Eye with turning Macedonia into the preeminent power in the Greek world within just 20 years, laying the foundation for the much better-known exploits of his son Alexander.

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The episode describes Macedonia as a semi-barbarian backwater on the fringes of the Greek world for most of ancient Greek history, until the rise of King Philip II began to change that very quickly.

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Demosthenes, the Athenian politician, leads the resistance against Philip II and Alexander the Great and against Macedonian expansion into the other Greek states.

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Philip II, father of Alexander III and one of Macedonia's most important rulers, is examined here for his exceptional diplomatic abilities.

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The opening episode asks whether Alexander was Greek or Macedonian, names the philosopher who ghosted young Alexander, and asks where the Greek gods supposedly lived and whether Alexander believed he belonged among them.

Part of Kings and Generals

Philip II, learning from Epaminondas, Pelopidas and Iphicrates, reforms his armies into the Macedonian phalanx, and this covers how the pezhetairoi were trained and their panoply and combat role.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Macedonia goes from backwater kingdom to supreme overlord of Greece, and the episode weighs the nature of its identity and whether it can truly be called Greek.

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The Macedonian Phalanx and the Companion Cavalry as the bread and butter of the Macedonian Army, plus a discussion of whether Alexander deserves as much credit as he gets.

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Valentine, referencing the article 'Men you can Trust,' asks why no foreign invader tried to take Macedonia while the bulk of Alexander's army was in Asia and India.

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Jsoth asks why the sarissa-wielding Macedonian phalanx struggled and even lost ground against Darius' mercenary Greeks during the battle of Issus, despite an expected advantage from its longer spears.

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Part of Ithaca Bound

With Charlotte Dunn

Dr Charlotte Dunn of the University of Tasmania returns to discuss how the relationship Greek polities had with the Kingdom of Macedon was mixed after Alexander III's death, some congenial, some acquiescing, others outright revolting.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Philip V's reign of nearly 42 years ends: after two decades of reforms Macedonia is a powerhouse again by 179, while infighting between the princes Perseus and Demetrius threatens the unity of the dynasty.

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Cleomenes III restores Sparta enough to bring the Achaean League to its knees in the Cleomenean War of 228 to 222, and Aratus of Sicyon turns to Macedon under the regent Antigonus III Doson.

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After a controversial rise, King Perseus proves an able ruler, and his rising popularity earns the enmity of those like Eumenes II of Pergamon, who accuses him of secretly planning war on Rome, leading to the Third Macedonian War.

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The 240s and 230s shake up Greece: Macedon under Demetrius II struggles with Greek Leagues, Illyrian tribes and a monarch's premature death, while young King Agis IV seeks to return Sparta to her ancestral ways.

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The Seleucids as prolific city-founders turn North Syria into a new imperial heartland standing in for Macedonia, and peoples from Babylonia and Jerusalem to Greek immigrants respond to Seleucid rule and Greek culture.

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Emboldened by success in the Social War, Philip V allies with Hannibal Barca against Rome in 215, and the First Macedonian War of 215 to 206 BC is mainly a conflict among the states of Greece.

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The philosopher-king Antigonus II Gonatas hosts intellectual celebrities at Pella and Macedon prospers, while Greece stirs toward rebellion in the Chremonidean War and with Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League.

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Crowned at 18 after Antigonus III Doson dies in 221, Philip V proves a king in the mold of Pyrrhus and Alexander, campaigning against the Aetolian League in the Social War and sidestepping corrupt advisors.

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Antigonus II Gonatas, traditionally preferring philosophers over the camp, takes the throne of Macedon and seeks to restore order after nearly 25 years of anarchy, facing Celtic barbarians, cannibalistic tyrants and Pyrrhus.

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Miles asks what armour Macedonian and late Hellenistic Phalangites wore, whether lighter equipment like the linothorax gave way to heavier metal armour over time, and if not, whether it is known why.

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Rome declares war on Perseus in 171, the Third Macedonian War drags on, and the consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus destroys the royal army at Pydna in 168, ending the Antigonid dynasty and the Macedonian kingdom.

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The Second Macedonian War, 200 to 197 BC: Philip V holds his own against Rome until Titus Quinctius Flamininus forces a showdown at Cynoscephalae that radically changes the balance of power in Greece.

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This opens the series on the Macedonian Wars, crucial for the Roman republic and the Hellenic states, leading to the battles of Cynoscephalae and Pydna and the Greco-Roman world that followed.

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Fifteen years after the Macedonian kingdom is abolished, Andriscus claims to be the lost heir of Perseus and invades Macedonia in 150, and the Fourth Macedonian War leads to a permanent Roman presence.

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Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series concludes with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Pydna, fought in 168 BC.

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Kings and Generals' Roman - Macedonian Wars series continues with the Third Macedonian War and the battle of Callinicus, fought in 171 BC.

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The manipular Roman legion, which fought the Carthaginian army, is matched against the Macedonian phalanx that Philip created, across the battles of Asculum, Heraclea, Cynoscephalae and Pydna.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

The origins of Macedon: Balkan migrations, a Bronze Age tribe Herodotus calls the Makednoi, the official Argead descent from Heracles and Argos, and expansion out of the Pierian Mountains by the reign of Alexander I.

Part of Kings and Generals

This traces the ancient origins of Macedonia before it became an empire under Philip and Alexander, with a focus on its relationship with the other Hellenic states.

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With Judith Mossman

For the Macedon Depth Study, Judith Mossman revises Plutarch's account of the life of Alexander and others with James, in this bitesize episode for Ancient History A Level students.

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In this episode, Murray tells us about the development of the Macedonian phalanx.

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Bill asks how long the Macedonian sarissa really was, noting he has often read twenty feet and sometimes longer.

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Jacob wonders whether field artillery was ever used against a Macedonian-style phalanx, arguing its close formation and immobility should have left it extremely susceptible to scorpion or ballista fire, and if not, why not.

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A listener asks how the Macedonian phalanx reacted if cavalry attacked it, and whether it had a specific tactic developed to hold off cavalry assaults.

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In this episode, Murray ponders the question of why Sparta adopted the Macedonian Phalanx.