Ancient historiography on war and empire
| 1. Verfasser: |
Howe, Timothy
, [VerfasserIn]
, [HerausgeberIn]
Müller, Sabine, 1972- , [VerfasserIn] , [HerausgeberIn] Stoneman, Richard, 1951- , [VerfasserIn] , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
297 pages. |
| ISBN: | 9781785703003 |
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| Online-Zugang: |
Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Foreword: ancient historiography and ancient history
- Part I. Introduction
- Why history? On the emergence of historical writing / Mark Munn
- Part II. Persia and Greece
- The political and the divine in Achaemenid royal inscriptions / Eran Almagor
- Cyrus the Great and the sacrifices for a dead king / Josef Wiesehöfer
- The horse and the stag: Philistus' view of tyrants / Frances Pownall
- Part III. Macedon
- Alexander II of Macedon / William Greenwalt
- "The giver of the bride, the bridegroom, and the bride": a study of the death of Philip II and its aftermath / Waldemar Heckel, Timothy Howe and Sabine Müller
- Royal tombs and cult of the dead kings in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni
- Part IV. The empires of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi
- The financial administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: an interpretation of two passages from Arrian's Anabasis / Maxim M. Kholod
- The eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians / Hugh Bowden
- The casualty figures of Alexander's army / Jacek Rzepka
- Alexander's battles against Persians in the art of the successors / Olga Palagia
- How the hoopoe got his crest: reflections on Megasthenes' stories of India / Richard Stoneman
- Creating the king: the image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1:10 / Aleksandra Kleczar
- Part V. Second sophistic Rome
- The hero vs. the tyrant: legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Alexander-Caesar pairing / Rebecca Frank
- Plutarch's Alexander, dionysos and the metaphysics of power / Elias Koulakiotis
- The artistic king: reflections on a topos in second sophistic historiography / Sabine Müller
- Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham.
