By Ian Worthington
ISBN: 978-0197520055
Oxford University Press, 2023 - £22.99
The end of the kingdom of Macedonia is usually told from the perspective of Rome's expansion, which relies upon the testimony of Polybius. The Macedonians, the Achaean League, and the other Greeks are merely characters in Rome's story. However, Polybius' representation of this period has long been considered unreliable, with his pro-Achaean and pro-Roman biases feeding his presentation of events and historical actors, particularly the, modern histories of the period have failed to seriously reconsider the Macedonians' role. This is where Worthington comes in. According to the author, this book is “a history and a reassessment of the last three kings of ancient Macedonia” whose reigns “are seen as postscripts to Macedonian history and subsumed within the history of Roman expansion” (p. xiii).
