ADVERTISEMENT The Macedonian empire quickly cracked up, however, leaving behind multiple successor states under Greek-speaking royal families. These were the richest societies of the Mediterranean ...

The Macedonian conquest was widely detested and resisted in a Persian Empire military historian Grainger describes not as the discordant mélange of peoples depicted in classical Greek accounts ...

he emphasizes that the Macedonian wasn’t conquering brand-new territory, mile by mile, but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal ...

This had an irreversible impact on Byzantine culture and society, as the definition of “Roman” would go through an evolution during the Macedonian Renaissance. The Byzantine Empire during the ...

A large black-and-white mosaic decorates the floor of the House of Dionysus at Pella, capital of the Macedonian Empire. The majority of Pella’s visible ruins date to the Hellenistic period.

That was the recurrent, ultimately insurmountable, challenge faced by the empire-building Macedonian king Alexander the Great during the last seven years of his life, a tumultuous period now under ...