Research Catalog

Title

Greece, Macedon and Persia : studies in social, political and military history in honour of Waldemar Heckel / edited by Timothy Howe, E. Edward Garvin and Graham Wrightson.

Publication

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Howe, Timothy
• Garvin, E. Edward (Erin Edward)
• Wrightson, Graham (Graham Charles Liquorish)
• Heckel, Waldemar, 1949-

Description

xiv, 214 pages; 25 cm

Subjects

• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
• Greece > History > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Darius I and the problems of (re)conquest: resistance, false identities and the impact of the past / Sabine Müller -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-2699

ISBN

• 9781782979234
• 1782979239

LCCN

2015002815

OCLC

905419367

Title

Greece, Macedon and Persia : studies in social, political and military history in honour of Waldemar Heckel / edited by Timothy Howe, E. Edward Garvin and Graham Wrightson.

Publisher

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.

Edition

Hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Howe, Timothy, editor.

Garvin, E. Edward (Erin Edward), editor.

Wrightson, Graham (Graham Charles Liquorish), editor.

Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- honouree.

Other Form:

Online version: Greece, Macedon and Persia Hardcover edition. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782979241 (DLC) 2015011177

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2699