October 2013 (117.4)

Review Article

Some Comprehensive New Publications on Ancient Macedonia

By Beryl Barr-Sharrar

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Reviewed Works

Das Palmettengrab in Lefkadia, by Katerina Rhomiopoulou and Barbara Schmidt-Dounas, with a chapter by Hariklia Brecoulaki (AM-BH 21). Pp. 166, figs. 18, b&w pls. 33, color pls. 19, maps 8. Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2010. €59.90. ISBN 978-3-0053-4206-3 (cloth). 
 
Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC–300 AD, edited by Robin J. Lane Fox. Pp. xiii + 642, figs. 73, map 1. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2011. $251. ISBN 978-90-04-20650-2 (cloth). 
 
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia, edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Pp. xxvi + 668, figs. 4, pls. 28, maps 10. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, England, and Malden, Mass. 2010. $199.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7936-2 (cloth). 
 
Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy, edited by Angeliki Kottaridi. Pp. 271, figs. 268, maps 3. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Oxford 2011. $45. ISBN 978-1-85444-254-3 (paper).
 
Au royaume dAlexandre le Grand: La Macédoine antique, edited by Sophie Descamps-Lequime, with Katerina Charatzopoulou. Pp. 728, figs. 620. Musée du Louvre, Paris 2011. $108. ISBN 978-2-35031-340-5 (cloth).
Ivory head of a young man from the Tomb of the Palmettes, Lefkadia, ht. 0.038 m (courtesy K. Rhomioupoulou).

Ivory head of a young man from the Tomb of the Palmettes, Lefkadia, ht. 0.038 m (courtesy K. Rhomioupoulou).

Ivory head of a young man from the Tomb of the Palmettes, Lefkadia, ht. 0.038 m (courtesy K. Rhomioupoulou).

Ivory head of a young man from the Tomb of the Palmettes, Lefkadia, ht. 0.038 m (courtesy K. Rhomioupoulou).