Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

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 Info. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
©2015

Item Status

Edition Hardcover edition.
Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.)
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Chronological Term 359-323 B.C
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Howe, Timothy, editor.
Garvin, E. Edward (Erin Edward), editor.
Wrightson, Graham (Graham Charles Liquorish), editor.
Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Greece, Macedon and Persia. Hardcover edition. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782979234 (DLC) 2015002815 (OCoLC)905419367
ISBN 9781782979241 electronic book
1782979247 electronic book
9781782979265 electronic book
1782979263 electronic book
9781782979258
1782979255
9781782979234