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Document Details : Title: Argead Macedonia in the Western Borderland of the Achaemenid Empire Author(s): DEGEN, Julian Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 24 Date: 2025 Pages: 1-22 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.24.0.3295106 Abstract : This paper examines the impact of the Achaemenid empire on Argead Macedonia by locating the latter within the broader framework of an imperial borderland. These were areas in which the political control of the empire was not permanent, although its power was still palpable. Even beyond its administrative boundaries, the empire yielded impact on the peoples living in the borderlands, stimulating discourses that produced new and distinct worldviews. Using the concept of imperial borderlands offers potential to provide new contexts to the foundation myth of the Argead house passed down by Herodotus. Here, it is being argued that this foundation myth is a blend of various elements circulating the western borderlands among which elements of imperial power prevailed. |
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