{"title":"The Argead Kings of Macedonia in the 'Chronicle' of John of Nikiu","authors":"Maxim Kholod","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.105","url":null,"abstract":"This essay deals with a description of the reigns of the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (Philip II, Alexander the Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus) in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu (late 7th century AD). The author argues that in contrast to John of Nikiu’s information about Philip II and Philip III Arrhidaeus, the account of Alexander found in his Chronicle is far from being merely a truncated version of the corresponding story given by John Malalas (6th century AD), but has a certain self-sufficiency. Therefore, in the opinion of the author, it can be well assumed that the image of Alexander presented by John of Nikiu holds a special, albeit quite modest, place among the portraits of the great conqueror we find in the Byzantine world’s literature.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"17 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138980030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artémis Digaia Blaganitis en Macédoine","authors":"M. Hatzopoulos","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.115","url":null,"abstract":"The study of a copy of an inscription, now lost, and of a text of Hesychius leads to the interpretation of two mysterious invocations of Artemis, \"Blaganitis\" and \"Digaia\", known on an altar found before the last war in Emathia. Furthermore, they allow us to make some conclusions about the phonology of the old Macedonian dialect.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138980726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Degen, Alexander III. Zwischen Ost und West. Indigene Traditionen und Herrschaftsinszenierung im makedonischen Weltimperium (2022)","authors":"Marco Ferrario","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.86","url":null,"abstract":"Review of J. Degen, Alexander III. Zwischen Ost und West. Indigene Traditionen und Herrschaftsinszenierung im makedonischen Weltimperium. Stuttgart, Steiner Verlag, 2022, 489 pp. [ISBN 9783515132831].","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122299169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archelaos I and the development of Macedon","authors":"Diego Chapinal-Heras","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.75","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to examine the figure of Archelaos I and developments in Macedon during his reign and the 5th century as a whole. Literary accounts point to what might have been an attempt to improve the administration and organization of the kingdom. A careful analysis of the sources is essential to understand the role played by Archelaos I, together with the position that Macedon occupied in the Greek world, in a series of developments during those years which offered the kingdom the opportunity to increase its power.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126541677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Book and Further Recent Scholarship on Seleukid Royal Women","authors":"A. Coşkun","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.95","url":null,"abstract":"The article sets out by briefly surveying recent scholarship on the Seleukid kingdom and Hellenistic queenship. Two important works that fall into both fields: Women and Monarchy in the Ancient World edited by Beth Carney and Sabine Müller (2021) and Basilissa authored by Christiane Kunst (2022). The discussion, however, concentrates on the first monograph that systematically explores Seleukid queenship: Robin Hämmerling’s Zwischen dynastischem Selbstbild und literarischem Stereotyp. Königinnen der Seleukiden und der Mittelmächte Kleinasiens (2019). By investigating the roles of the sister and the mother of the king as well as inter-dynastic marriages, Hämmerling explores the extent of the basilissa’s autonomous agency. Revisiting the evidence leads the author of the present article to many alternative views, especially concerning the early Seleukid women from Apama over Stratonike to Laodike I-IV . While Hämmerling rightly identifies the sibling marriage among the Seleukids as ritual role play until the generation of Antiochos III, the same arguments should have induced him to challenge the standard claim that there was a radical change beginning with Antiochos the son of Antiochos III. Another shortcoming is the assumption of monogamy as the norm in the House of Seleukos, although the evidence clearly favours polygamy as the prevailing model. But Hämmerling’s main conclusion is confirmed: the political power of the Seleukid queen was limited and confined to some instances of troubled successions; her typical role was to represent the royal family rather than to rule. Yet he omits an investigation into the basilissa title. He follows the traditional view that it could be borne by every woman of the king’s family, whereas the present paper argues that it is mostly attested for only one woman, namely the mother of the designated successor, co-ruling king, or king after his succession. The position of the basilissa was thus to support the smooth dynastic transition at the polygamous court, it did not come with any institutional power.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131278351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of D’Agostini, Anson, Pownall (eds.), Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity. Studies in Honor of Elizabeth D. Carney (2021)","authors":"Borja Antela","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.101","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Monica D’Agostini, Edward M. Anson, Frances Pownall (eds.), Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity. Studies in Honor of Elizabeth D. Carney, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2021, 287 pp. [ISBN 978-1-78925-498-3; eISBN 978-1-78925-499-0].","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125126608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Ferrara, Basileus e Basileia. Forme e Luoghi della Regalità Macedone (2020)","authors":"Borja Antela","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.102","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Francesco Maria Ferrara, Basileus e Basileia. Forme e Luoghi della Regalità Macedone, Roma, Edizioni Quasar, 2020, 437 pp. [ISBN 978-88-5491-047-8; eISBN 978-88-5491-030-0].","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127947358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argead Women and Religion","authors":"E. Carney","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.93","url":null,"abstract":"The studies on the relationship between religion and Macedonian monarchy have been mainly focused on male rulers. This paper tries to compile and analyse the evidence for Macedonian royal women. This article demonstrates the importance of public religion and patronage for those women through archaeological, epigraphical, and textual evidence. The corpus shows that religious affairs in Macedonia were necessarily entangled with political and cultural aspects, hindering straightforward conclusions about the range and evolution of the royal women in the public religion of Argead Macedonia.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131021817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reseña de Antela-Bernárdez, Apología de Olimpia de Épiro: Tres ensayos críticos (2021)","authors":"Antonio Ignacio Molina","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.96","url":null,"abstract":"Reseña de B. Antela-Bernárdez, Apología de Olimpia de Épiro: Tres ensayos críticos, Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2021, 136.pp. [ISBN 978-84-7882-872-2].","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"94 4 Pt 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129478104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and Alexander the Great","authors":"Edward M. Anson","doi":"10.5565/rev/karanos.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.94","url":null,"abstract":"Alexander the Great was religiously both a man of his time and the catalyst for change in the pattern of Greek religious life. He accepted the ubiquity of divine presence in the world and participated actively in the practice of Greek paganism, but he was also imbued with his own importance which evolved over time into a belief in his own divinity. This belief and the desire for such recognition led to the worship of Hellenistic kings as mortal gods.","PeriodicalId":129714,"journal":{"name":"Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121695629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}