THE ROLE OF PROPAGANDA IN PHILIP’S V POLITICY AT THE END OF THE IIIRD CENTURY BC  

Sivkina Natalya Yuryevna, Candidate of History, associate professor, sub-department of ancient and medieval
history, Nizhniy Novgorod State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky, siny@uic.nnov.ru 

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The author investigates the reasons of negative tradition in a historiography about the person of Macedonian king Philip V. On the basis of studying a lot of sources the author сonsiders, that Philip did not give value to propagation as a metod of political struggle. It fact became one of the reasons of defeat of Macedonia in war with Rome. 

hellenistic monarchy, Antigonids, propaganda, Philip V of Macedon, cult of the ruler, Hellenic league of 224 BC.