| Description |
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Diadochi history in cuneiform : documentation / Tom Boiy -- The Heidelberg epitome : a neglected Diadoch source / Pat Wheatley -- Seleucus vs. Antigonus : a study on the sources / Franca Landucci Gattinoni -- Duris of Samos and the Diadochi / Frances Pownall -- The Diadochi, invented : tradition, and Alexander's expedition to Siwah / Timothy Howe -- Strabo, India and barbequed Brahmans / Brian Bosworth -- What we do not know about the age of the Diadochi : the methodological consequences of the gaps in the evidence / Alexander Meeus -- The Battle of Gabene : Eumenes' inescapable doom? / Edward M. Anson -- Alexander's Argyraspids : tough old fighters or Antigonid myth? / Elizabeth Baynham -- Agora XVI 107 and the royal title of Demetrius Poliorcetes / Paschalis Paschidis -- Adeimantus of Lampsacus and the development of the early Hellenistic Philos / Shane Wallace -- Iranians in the Diadochi period / Marek Jan Olbrycht -- Nullis umquam nisi domesticis regibus : Cappadocia, Pontus and the resistance to the Diadochi in Asia Minor / Luis Ballesteros Pastor -- The female element of the political self-fashioning of the Diadochi : Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysimachus, and their Iranian wives / Sabine Müller -- Alexander the Great, Ptolemy I and the offerings of arms to Athena Lindia / Giuseppe Squillace -- Propaganda strategies and political document : Philip III's diagramma and the Greeks in 319 BC / Elisabetta Poddighe -- The Alexandrian foundation myth : Alexander, Ptolemy, the Agathoi Daimones and the Argolaoi / Daniel Ogden -- The Diadochi and the zoology of kingship : the elephants / Víctor Alonso Troncoso |
| Notes |
"This volume contains the revised proceedings of an international symposium on "The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC)", held at the University of La Coruña (Spain), in September 2010." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Diadochen
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C. -- Congresses
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Macedonia -- History -- Diadochi, 323-276 B.C. -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Europe -- Macedonia
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alonso Troncoso, V. (Víctor), author, editor.
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Anson, Edward, author, editor.
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| LC no. |
2012048608 |
| ISBN |
9781782970651 |
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1782970657 |
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9781782970637 |
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1782970630 |
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