Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University. His many publications include Athens after Empire, Ptolemy I, By the Spear, and Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Brill's New Jacoby since 2003, and in 2019 and 2020 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London) and the Society of Antiquaries (London), respectively.

• Preface


• Figures


• Abbreviations


• Maps


• Introduction: We Three Kings


• 1. The Kingdom of Macedonia


• 2. Introducing Philip V


• 3. The Social War


• 4. Taking on Rome


• 5. From the First to the Second Macedonian Wars


• 6. The Second Macedonian War


• 7. Fall of the Phalanx


• 8. Macedonia Renascent


• 9. Perseus: Last of the Antigonids


• 10. The Third Macedonian War


• 11. Dismembering Macedonia


• 12. Provincia Macedonia


• Appendix: "Fake News:" The Sources on Philip V and Perseus


• Bibliography, Index

The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome provides a chronicle of the last three kings of Macedonia: Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148). Far from being a mere postscript to Macedonia's Classical greatness or collateral damage in Rome's ascendancy in the east, Philip and Perseus should be remembered for heroically striving to preserve their kingdom's independence against staggering odds.