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Greece, Macedon and Persia : Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Edición: | Hardcover edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.