The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome

Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. His many publications include Athens after Empire, Ptolemy I, By the Spear, and Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Brill's New Jacoby since 2003, and in 2019 and 2020 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Society of Antiquaries (London), respectively.

• Preface Figures Abbreviations Maps Introduction: We Three Kings 1. The Kingdom of Macedonia2. Introducing Philip V3. The Social War4. Taking on Rome5. From the First to the Second Macedonian Wars6. The Second Macedonian War7. Fall of the Phalanx8. Macedonia Renascent9. Perseus: Last of the Antigonids10. The Third Macedonian War11. Dismembering Macedonia12. Provincia Macedonia Appendix: "Fake News:" The Sources on Philip V and PerseusBibliography, Index

The Macedonian king Philip V is usually remembered as the man whose alliance with Hannibal triggered the Roman expansion in the East. Drawing upon epigraphic discoveries of the last decades that document Philip's military and administrative reforms and responses to crises and correct the hostile account of the historian Polybius, Ian Worthington has composed a nuanced and up-to-date narrative of a life that started with ambitions and triumphs, and ended with defeats and tragedies. Philip's actions generated a process that Polybius calls symploke: the entanglement of political developments in Europe, Africa, and Asia. With this book, he now takes the place that he deserves among the greatest protagonists of the Hellenistic Age.