HIS 4A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Ancient Macedonians, Vergina, Peloponnesian War
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Oct 8 his 004 western civ lecture notes. Vergina: towns that macedonian king used as capital. Macedon: look at the group of people live here. Outside of persian empire and other empires around. They do not speak greeks, they did not call themselves greek. Greek culture: civilized, be part of the city: macedonian kings were polygamous. Greek culture was urban, macedonians were semi-nomadic pastoralists. Neither macedonians or greeks viewed macedonians as greek. The language was related to greek, but difficult for greeks to understand. Kings sought to hellenize themselves and their courts: macedonian kings worked hard to keep peace among violent nobles. Phillip ii: within 10 years of becoming king. He strengthened bond between king and nobility. Slow to recover from the cost of the peloponnesian wars. Phillip imposed his authority over more and more cities. Demosthenes, orator, urged athenians to recognize phillip as a threat.
