| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Waldemar Heckel, Bibliography; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Wald; Chapter 1: Darius I and the Problems of (Re)conquest: Resistance, false identities and the impact of the past; Chapter 2: Clausewitz and Ancient Warfare; Chapter 3: Thucydides and the Failure in Sicily; Chapter 4: Women and Symposia in Macedonia; Chapter 5: Infantry and the Evolution of Argead Macedonia; Chapter 6: Equine Aspects of Alexander the Great's Macedonian Cavalry; Chapter 7: Macedonian Armies, Elephants, and the Perfection of Combined Arms |
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Chapter 8: Military Unrest in the Age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon: Defining the terms of debateChapter 9: Opposition to Macedonian Kings: Riots for rewards and verbal protests; Chapter 10: Arrian and 'Roman' Military Tactics. Alexander's campaign against the Autonomous Thracians; Chapter 11: Counter-Insurgency: The lesson of Alexander the Great; Chapter 12: The Comparison between Alexander and Philip. Use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme; Chapter 13: The Callisthenes Enigma; Chapter 14: Alexander's Unintended Legacy: Borders |
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Chapter 15: Cleomenes of Naucratis, Villain or Victim?Chapter 16: Cult of the Dead and Vision of the Afterlife in Early Hellenistic Macedonia; Chapter 17: The Career of Sostratos of Knidos: Politics, Diplomacy and the Alexandrian Building Programme in the Early Hellenistic Period; Chapter 18: What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus?; Chapter 19: Polybius on Naval Warfare; Chapter 20: Rome's Apparent Disinterest in Macedonia 168-148 BCE; Index |
| Summary |
Greece, Macedon and Persia contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of warfare, politics and power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions, written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conflict at the heart of social, political and economic activity. Though focusing on a single theme war the papers are firmly based in the context of the wider social and literary issues of Ancient Mediterranean scholarship and as such, consider war and conflict as part of a complex matrix of culture in which historical actors articulate their relationships with society and historical authors articulate their relationships with history. The result is a rich understanding of Ancient World history and history-writing. The volume is presented in honour of Waldemar Heckel, a foremost scholar of Alexander the Great and ancient warfare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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| SUBJECT |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast |
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057087
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Howe, Timothy, editor
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Garvin, E. Edward (Erin Edward), editor.
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Wrightson, Graham (Graham Charles Liquorish), editor.
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Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- honouree.
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| LC no. |
2015002815 |
| ISBN |
1782979263 |
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9781782979265 |
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