The land and the people; The monarchy and the Temenid Kings; The
Macedonians and their neighbours down to 452; The organization of
the Macedonian State under Temenid rule; A period of weakness
452-359; The winning of military supremacy 359-323; The
consolidation and expansion of the Macedonian State 359-323;
Government and ideas in Europe in the period of greatness 359-323;
The Macedonians and the Greeks of the Common Peace; The Civil War
and the
splitting of the Macedonian World 323-304; The wars of the Kings
and the division of the Macedonian Kingdom 303-281; The heirs of
strife and the intrusion of foreign powers 281-221; Philip V's
policy in
Greece and his war with Rome 221-196; Macedonia siding with Rome
and at war with Rome 196-167; Institutions of the Macedonian State
c.267-167
`a very useful one-volume summary, with some updating and changes
of mind, of the three-volume "Oxford History of Macedonia.'
History
'N.G.L. Hammond's name has become virtually synonomous with the
study of the history of Macedonia. Hammond remains a much-loved
figure to his colleagues, students, and fellow scholars ... He is,
in short, an institution, and a venerable one at that. Macedonian
State is the vintage Hammond. Indeed, it can function as the
summary of and key to all other Hammond scholarship ... his vision
of the unity of Macedonian past and present can often be
compelling ... His strengths are well known ... Hammonds knowledge
of the now largely vanished traditional culture he encountered in
his early travels in Macedonia has profoundly affected his
understanding of ancient
Macedonian history.'
Elizabeth Carney, Clemson University, Ancient History Bulletin,
5.5/6 (1991)
'A 1992 reprint as a Clarendon Paperback ... should make an
essential study ... more readily available. The brief account of
'sopme Royal Tombs' ... and, even more, 'the women of the royal
house' ... ought to be compulsory reading for all.'
P. Walcot, Greece and Rome, October 1993
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