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Notes on video lecture:
The Nature of Macedon
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on July 2, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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there were prominent 4th century Greeks who didn't consider the Macedonians to be Greek or                  at all
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or they made this claim for                      reasons
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what we know is that the Macedonian kings, including                   , could speak, write, and read Greek fluently
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although some sources indicate that Greeks couldn't necessarily understand Macedonians
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because Macedonian was probably a dialect of           
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but one can say that Macedon was a very                    kind of place than the Greek city states
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there were some Greek city-states which had kings during the              century
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but in the vast majority of the 1000 and more polis, or city-states of the Greek world, there were in fact assemblies of                 , councils, and elected officials who were bound by often written laws
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in Macedon by contrast, the                kings were essentially the state, bound by no constitutional restrictions, written or otherwise
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the Temenid kings were understood to have descended from a man named Temenus of           , who was said to be a descendent of Heracles
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Macedonian army might acclaim a new king and might serve as in                trials of Macedonian nobles
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but the kings serves as the                       
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the selected their own successors
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they made rulings in cases of                   
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and treaties between Macedon and other places were signed in the names of the kings themselves
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there were no                        or lawyers in Macedon
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the Macedonian kings lived among their picked companions and friends,                  as many women as they wished, sometimes even for diplomatic reasons, and drinking heavily
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their parties were famous, even                   
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at those parties, the Macedonian              didn't hesitate to speak their minds
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the parties often ended in                   
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most of the kings who preceded              died in battle or were assassinated
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Macedon really was an                    tempered by assassination
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for all of the drama and bloodshed, the Macedonian kings were finally able to
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master their              in lower and upper Macedon
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harness the                    of the kingdom
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King Archelaus I of Macedon (469-399 BC)
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raised the level of               
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                   came to the Macedonean court between 408-406 BC
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wrote one of his most troubling and powerful tragedies, the               , a the Macedonian court
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the foundation of the court in            is still visible today
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richly decorated
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Pella was no cultural                    during the fourth century BCE
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it means that Alexander the Great was not brought up among a bunch of barbarian            as some Athenian orders applied
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yet the threat of                    persisted
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because the power in Macedon was                 
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between 400-360 BC there were          kings of Macedon
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                   III (368-359 BC)
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killed in a battle against the Illyrians along with 4000 soldiers
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               IV (infant)
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was left to be king barely old enough to walk let along defend the kingdom
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Philip II
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in his place, his uncle, Philip II took power, father of Alexander the Great
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took responsibility for the                of Macedon
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gave his                  to Amyntas
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set about a reform of Macedon's          that would lead to the creation of the world's first truly                          army
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Alexander
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was Amyntas' cousin and so Alexander had him              to insure that he would stay in power
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used that professional army to conquer the                empire

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######################### (469-399 BC)
[Ἀρχέλαος]
  • king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, he was a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state administration, the military, commerce, and the arts
  • moved the Macedonian capital from Aigae to Pella and founded Macedonian Olympian Games in Dion, among other reasons because the Greek Olympic Games were forbidden to barbarians, or outsiders, including the Macedonians
  • completely reverse Macedon's relationship with Athens, as they experienced a crushing defeat at Syracuse in late 413 during which most of their ships were destroyed, Archelaus generously supplied the Athenians with the timber they needed to rebuild
  • issued high quality coinage
  • was a man of culture and extended cultural and artistic contacts with southern Greece
  • hosted great poets, tragedians, including Agathon [Ἀγάθων] (no works survived) and Euripides (who wrote his tragedies Archelaus and The Bacchae while in Macedon), as well as musicians and painters, including Zeuxis (no works survived), the most celebrated painter of the time

Spelling Corrections:

decendent ⇒ descendent
Alexander the Great, the Terrible, or the Insignificant
Why Study Alexander the Great?
The Importance of the Battle of Thermopylae
The Peloponnesian War and Internal Greek Struggles
Early Macedon
The Nature of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon's Military Reforms
Alexander's Cavalry Units
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)