Recent Research on Ancient Macedonia

Abstract

The researches based exclusively on the literary tradition could not describe satisfactorily the political, social, economic and administrative structures of the Macedonian state. New epigraphic evidence discovered on the territory of the Macedonian kingdom in the last decades, linked with the literary information, outlined a more concrete and a more detailed image on the organisation of ancient Macedonia. Remarkable progress has been made in examining the role of the urban centres in the history of he kingdom and also in defining the relations between monarchy and the communities structured after the poliadic model, founded either by the Macedonian kings or conquered and annexed to the kingdom. The inscriptions certify the granting of individual estates within the cities of Kasandreia and Kalindonia by the Macedonian kings, as well as the guarantee of some fiscal immunities.