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Author:   Timothy Howe ,  Sabine Müller ,  Richard Stoneman
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9781785702990

ISBN 10:   1785702998
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors Forward: Ancient Historiography and Ancient History Part I: Introduction 1 Why History? On the Emergence of Historical Writing Mark Munn Part II: Persia and Greece 2 The Political and the Divine in Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Eran Almagor 3 Cyrus the Great and the Sacrifices for a Dead King Josef Wiesehöfer 4 The Horse and the Stag: Philistus’ View of Tyrants Frances Pownall Part III: Macedon 5 Alexander II of Macedon William Greenwalt 6 ‘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 7 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 8 The Financial Administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: An Interpretation of Two Passages from Arrian’s Anabasis Maxim M. Kholod 9 The Eagle has Landed: Divination in the Alexander Historians Hugh Bowden 10 The Casualty Figures of Alexander’s Army Jacek Rzepka 11 Alexander’s battles against Persians in the art of the Successors Olga Palagia 12 How the Hoopoe Got His Crest: Reflections on Megasthenes’ Stories of India Richard Stoneman 13 Creating the King: The Image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1-10 Aleksandra Klęczar Part V: Second Sophistic Rome 14 The Hero vs. the Tyrant: Legitimate And Illegitimate Rule in Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar Rebecca Frank 15 Plutarch’s Alexander, Dionysos and the Metaphysics of Power Elias Koulakiotis 16 The Artistic King: Reflections on a Topos in Second Sophistic Historiography Sabine Müller 17 Flattery, History, and the Pepaideumenos Sulochana Asirvatham Index

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All of the papers are thought-provoking… * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * This is a massive, well-organised work on the historiography and history of the ancient world; as such, it makes a significant contribution to the present-day overview of historiography; the papers are erudite, well written, [...] Last but not least, it offers numerous fresh and provocative approaches to the seemingly marginal and/or somewhat neglected themes of historiography. * Ancient West & East *

All of the papers are thought-provoking... * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Author Information

Timothy Howe is Professor of History and Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College (USA). His main research interests are in Alexander the Great, ancient Mediterranean warfare, agriculture, law, religion, trade, and, Greek and Latin epigraphy. Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University (Germany) where she specialises in ancient Near East, Greece, Macedonia and Rome including iconography and the study of ancient writers in relation to archaeological evidence. Richard Stoneman is Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter (UK) with particular research interest in the continuity of the Greek world and Greek tradition up to the present day and in Alexander the Great, especially in later legend.

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