"Chaeronea, 2 August 338 BC: A day that changed the world" Exhibition Catalog – Bilingual Edition

Bilingual catalog published in the context of the new series of archaeological exhibitions “Human Histories” for the exhibition “Chaeronea, 2 August 338 BC: A day that changed the world”. The catalog presents the battle of Chaeronea, the one that pitted the Macedonians against the allied Hellenic cities and emphasizes its importance in shaping the new Hellenistic world. It consists of 453 pages and includes all the objects of the exhibition per section, with detailed explanatory texts in Greek and English and rich photographic material. Through the texts of the curators, as well as some of the leading scholars in the field, an attempt is made to highlight the specific battle as the event that finally brought the Macedonians to the position of the dominant power, decisively influencing the entire ancient world. More than 240 objects from numerous museums and collections in Greece and abroad are presented, some of which are published for the first time, highlighting a historical event that was destined to change the world.

Edited by Panagiotis P. Iossif – Ioannis D. Fappas