Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider net, to show how Classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted and sometimes misinterpreted information on ancient Macedonians to serve their own literary and political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the historiographical tradition, this volume shows that the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history largely occurred much earlier. This yields a richer and more balanced reflection of both the history and the historiography of this important and controversial people.

Timothy Howe (Professor of History and Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College, Minnesota) is a field archaeologist and literary scholar. His research focuses on Macedonian elites and the methods by which they maintained power. As editor or author he has published widely: Pastoral Politics: Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece; Folly and Violence in the Courts of Alexander the Great and his Successors; Ancient Historiography on War and Empire; Macedonian Legacies; Greece, Macedon, and Persia, and Brill's Companion to Insurgency and Terror in the Ancient Mediterranean. Professor Howe is Senior Editor for the journal Ancient History Bulletin.

Frances Pownall (Professor, University of Alberta) is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (Michigan 2004), as well as a number of lengthy translations and historical commentaries on fragmentary Greek historians in Brill's New Jacoby. She has published widely on Greek history and historiography of the classical and hellenistic periods.