A detailed study of Thessaloniki’s founding, combining archaeological evidence, Strabo’s texts, and Hellenistic urban planning.This book examines the founding of Thessaloniki, one of the most important and enduring Hellenistic cities. It brings together various topics relating to Cassander’s foundation, some of them reconsidered and others examined for the first time, and is informed by the results of the archaeological research of the region around modern Thessalo...