Regional Study: Macedonia

Harvard FAS

This course will explore the political and cultural history of Macedonia and northern Greece, from the archaic period to late antiquity. We will focus on questions of change, recurrence, and continuity within the long history of this frontier region, at the threshold of the Aegean and Balkan worlds.The course will be discussion-based, and texts, objects, and ideas will be brought into dialogue around themes that are arranged roughly chronologically. These will include the formation and…