Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Tomb II and its contents
  • The painted Frieze
  • questions about the Frieze
  • The date of Tomb II
  • Approach and outline of chapters
  • I. The Hunters. The hunt in the Near East
  • the lion hunt in Greece and Macedonia
  • The Macedonian horseman
  • The Northern Aegean horseman
  • A portrait of kingship
  • Portrait within a portrait
  • II. The Hunt. The Citizen hunter
  • The Hero hunter
  • The Group hunter
  • The Heroic as model in Macedonia
  • Heroic nudity
  • III. The Landscape. The Paradeisos possibility
  • The Greek Grove and Sacred Space
  • Sacral elements in pastoral and mythological scenes
  • A heroic landscape
  • IV. Heroes and kings. Portraits in narrative
  • Paradigms in praise songs
  • Reading paradigms in the Vergina Frieze
  • Foundations and the earliest Macedonian kings
  • Conclusions: applying the paradigms at Tomb II
  • Appendix: the date of Tomb II. The vault
  • The "Diadem"
  • Armor, weaponry, and paraphernalia
  • The remains of the female
  • The remains in the main chamber
  • The pottery and metalwork.