As the first English-language monograph on Ancient Macedonia, after about thirty years, Carol J. King's book, Associate Professor of Classics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, offers a detailed narrative of the rise and fall of Macedonia's power in the Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean region during the 500-year period of Macedonian monarchy from the 7th to the 2nd century BC. King extensively utilizes philological evidence for her argumentation, citing both contemporary and later ancient writers. Her research is based on material evidence from the fields of Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Numismatics. The book "Ancient Macedonia" balances historical facts with interpretations - those of the author as well as other historians - and encourages the reader to engage closely with the material of the sources and the historical questions that this material raises.