Who were the ancient Macedonians?

The ancient Macedonians were a people whose political, cultural, and military developments significantly influenced the course of history. This video explores not only their remarkable achievements but also their origins, social structures, and cultural practices.

00:00 - 01:01 Intro
01:02 - 02:47 Bronze Age
02:48 - 03:04 Dark Ages
3:05 - 04:35 Geometric Period
04:36 - 11:15 Origins
11:16 - 13:16 The Land
13:17 - 15:36 Neighbours
15:37 - 20:11 Archaic Period
20:12 - 22:37 Culture & Kingship
22:38 - 23:05 Amyntas I
23:06 - 23:25 Alexander I
23:26 - 26:52 Were Macedonians Greek?
26:53 - 27:32 Greco-Persian Wars
27:33 - 28:07 Perdiccas II
28:08 - 29:15 Archelaos I
29:16 - 30:19 Turbulent Period
30:20 - 37:11 Philip II
37:12 - 40:32 Alexander the Great
40:33 - 42:54 Hellenistic Period
42:55 - 46:48 Macedonian Wars
46:49 - 48:02 Roman Province
48:03 - 55:07 Religion
55:08 - 59:31 Language
59:32 - 1:03:06 Epilogue

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Ancient Sources:
-Hesiod, 'Theogony'
-Hesiod, 'Catalogue of Women'
-Herodotus, 'The Histories'
-Thucydides, 'History of the Peloponnesian War'
-Diodorus Siculus, 'Library of History'
-Arrian, 'Anabasis of Alexander'
-Justin, 'Epitome of the Philippic Histories of Pompeius Trogus'
-Polybius, 'Histories'
-Hesychius of Alexandria, 'Lexicon'

Medieval Sources:
-The Suda Encyclopedia
-Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 'The Excerpts of Constantine'
-Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, 'De Thematibus'

Modern Sources:
From the Ashmolean work: 'Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the royal capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of democracy'
-Angeliki Kottaridi, 'The legend of Macedon: a Hellenic kingdom in the age of democracy'
-Robin Lane Fox, 'Macedon, c.650–336 BC'
-Miltiades Hatzopoulos, 'Royalty and democracy: the case of Macedonia'
-Yannis Galanakis, 'Aegae: 160 years of archaeological research'
-Elena Kountouri, 'The Mycenaean presence in Macedonia: new evidence from the region of emathia'
-Ioannes Graekos, 'Trade and exchange in the Macedonian court'
-Ioannes Graekos, 'War and Hunting: the world of the Macedonian king and his companions
-Angeliki Kottaridi, 'Queens, princesses and high priestesses: the role of women at the Macedonian court'
-Angeliki Kottaridi, 'Burial customs and beliefs in the royal necropolis of Aegae'
-Angeliki Kottaridi, 'Aegae: the Macedonian metropolis'
-Harikleia Brekoulaki, 'Painting at the Macedonian court'
-Maria Lilimpaki-Akamati, 'Pella: the ‘greatest of the cities in Macedonia’. The new capital of the kingdom of Macedon'

-M. B. Hatzopoulos, 'Macedonians and other Greeks'
-Julián Méndez Dosuna, 'Macedonian'
-Frank Daubner, ‘What on earth became of them all?’ Continuity and change in Macedonian society
after the Roman conquest
-M. Mari, 'Traditional Cults and Beliefs'
-Nikos Chausidis, 'The eschatological function of
gold foil funerary jewelry in the late Archaic necropolises of Macedonia'
-Afroditi Douitsi, 'Funeral monuments in Macedonia during the Archaic and Classical periods'
-Athanasios Kyriakidis, 'Regional identity in the Chalkidike peninsula during the 5th century BCE'
-Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, 'Ancient Macedonia'
-Nikola Mitevski, 'Ancient Macedonian Language'

From the Brill's Companion to ancient Macedonia
-P. J. Rhodes, 'The Literary and Epigraphic Evidence to the Roman Conquest'
-Karsten Dahmen, 'The Numismatic Evidence'
-Carol G. Thomas, 'The Physical Kingdom'
-Johannes Engels, 'Macedonians and Greeks'
-Sulochana R. Asirvatham, 'Perspectives on the Macedonians from Greece, Rome, and Beyond'
-Sławomir Sprawski, 'The Early Temenid Kings to Alexander I'
-Joseph Roisman, 'Classical Macedonia to Perdiccas III'
-Sabine Müller, 'Philip II'
-Dawn L. Gilley and Ian Worthington, 'Alexander the Great, Macedonia and Asia'
-Winthrop Lindsay Adams, 'Alexander's successors to 221 BC'
-Arthur M. Eckstein, 'Macedonia and Rome, 221-146 BC'
-John Vanderspoel, 'Provincia Macedonia'
-William S. Greenwalt, 'Macedonia, Illyria and Epirus'
-Denver Graninger, 'Macedonia and Thessaly'
-Zosia Archibald, 'Macedonia and Thrace'
-Marek Jan Olbrycht, 'Macedonia and Persia'
-Carol J. King, 'Macedonian Kingship and Other Political Institutions'
-Noriko Sawada, 'Social Customs and Institutions: Aspects of Macedonian Elite Society'
-Elizabeth Carney, 'Macedonian Women'
-Paul Christesen and Sarah C. Murray, 'Macedonian Religion'
-Nicholas Victor Sekunda, 'The Macedonian Army'
-Carolyn S. Snively, 'Macedonia in Late Antiquity'

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