The palatial complex at Demetrias, the political and administrative centre of the Macedonian rulers, stands on a rocky crag in the eastern part of the city, north of the agora. It was raised in the first half of the second century BC, under King Philip V of Macedon, over an earlier third century BC building, the remains of which were discovered mainly in the northeast sector. The palace was probably abandoned after the battle at Pydna in 168 BC, which marked the end of the Macedonian dynasty, and ...