Greece, Macedon and Persia : studies in social, political and military history in honour of Waldemar Heckel

Weitere Verfasser: Howe, Timothy.
Garvin, E. Edward
Wrightson, Graham
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Ausgabe: Hardcover edition.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 214 p. ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Darius I and the problems of (re)conquest: resistance, false identities and the impact of the past / Sabine Muller
  • Clausewitz, the culminating point of attack, and Greco-Persian wars / E. Edward Garvin
  • Thucydides and the failure in Sicily / Brian Bosworth
  • Women and symposia in Macedonia / Elizabeth Carney
  • Infantry and the evolution of Argead Macedonia / William Greenwalt
  • Equine aspects of Alexander the Great's Macedonian cavalry / Carolyn Willekes
  • Macedonian armies and the perfection of combined arms / Graham Wrightson
  • Military unrest in the age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon: defining the terms of debate / Lee L. Brice
  • Opposition to Macedonian kings: riots for rewards and verbal protests / Joseph Roisman
  • Arrian and "Roman" military tactics: Alexander's campaign against the autonomous Thracians / Timothy Howe
  • Counter-insurgency: the lesson of Alexander the Great / Edward M. Anson
  • The comparison between Alexander and Philip: use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme / Guiseppe Squillace
  • The Callisthenes enigma / Gordon Shrimpton
  • Alexander's unintended legacy: borders / Stanley Burstein
  • Cleomenes of Naucratis, villain or victim? / Elizabeth Baynham
  • Cult of the dead and vision of the afterlife in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni
  • The career of Sostratos of Knidos: politics, diplomacy and the Alexandrian building programme in the early Hellenistic period / Alexander Meeus
  • What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus? / Daniel Ogden
  • Polybius on naval warfare / Philip DeSouza
  • Rome's apparent disinterest in Macedonia 168-148 BC / John Vanderspoel.