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Book Eumenes of Cardia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Anson
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2015-06-29
  • ISBN : 9004297170
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Eumenes of Cardia written by Edward Anson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2nd edition) updates the original work in light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents much new analysis influenced by this continuing scholarship on this particular Successor of Alexander the Great.

Book Eumenes of Cardia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Anson
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-10-01
  • ISBN : 9004496599
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Eumenes of Cardia written by Edward Anson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eumenes of Cardia

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  • Author : Edward Anson
  • Publisher : Mnemosyne, Supplements
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789004297159
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Eumenes of Cardia written by Edward Anson and published by Mnemosyne, Supplements. This book was released on 2015 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2nd edition) updates the original work in light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents much new analysis influenced by this continuing scholarship on this particular Successor of Alexander the Great.

Book Eumenes of Cardia

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  • Author : Edward Madden Anson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Eumenes of Cardia written by Edward Madden Anson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book After Alexander

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  • Author : John Tidmarsh
 & Sydney University Press
  • Publisher : Sydney University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-01
  • ISBN : 1743329652
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book After Alexander written by John Tidmarsh
 & Sydney University Press and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan details the excavation of Hellenistic and Early Roman period horizons carried out at Pella in Jordan by the University of Sydney since 1979. It deals with both the stratigraphy of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels at Pella, and catalogues the pottery recovered from them. Short summaries of relevant work by the College of Wooster are also included. After a brief introduction to the site and history of excavations, a detailed description of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels on the main mound of Khirbet Fahl, on nearby Tell Husn, and in select hinterland locations, then follows. The heart of the study centres on a detailed catalogue of the corpus of some 900 individual Hellenistic-Early Roman pottery fragments, accompanied by outline drawings for each fragment, and a smaller number of images of the more important pieces. Discussion of the relevance and importance of the material remains to the history and archaeology of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods at Pella and more broadly to Jordan and the southern Levant concludes the study.

Book Alexander   s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors

Download or read book Alexander s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors written by Joseph Roisman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander’s elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldiers who followed Alexander on his campaigns and who were divided among his successors as they fought for control of his empire after his death. Yet the veterans played an important role in helping to shape the character and contours of the Hellenistic world. This pathfinding book offers the first in-depth investigation of the Macedonian veterans’ experience during a crucial turning point in Greek history (323–316 BCE). Joseph Roisman discusses the military, social, and political circumstances that shaped the history of Alexander’s veterans, giving special attention to issues such as the soldiers’ conduct on and off the battlefield, the army assemblies, the volatile relationship between the troops and their generals, and other related themes, all from the perspective of the rank-and-file. Roisman also reexamines the biases of the ancient sources and how they affected ancient and modern depictions of Alexander’s veterans, as well as Alexander’s conflicts with his army, the veterans’ motives and goals, and their political contributions to Hellenistic history. He pays special attention to the Silver Shields, a group of Macedonian veterans famous for their invincibility and martial prowess, and assesses whether or not they deserved their formidable reputation.

Book Alexander the Great

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  • Author : Edward M. Anson
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-06-06
  • ISBN : 1441193790
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Alexander the Great written by Edward M. Anson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cogent analysis of Alexander the Great's controversial career.

Book The Greek and Macedonian Art of War

Download or read book The Greek and Macedonian Art of War written by Frank E. Adcock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and shows the military conventions and strategies associated with it. He then recounts how the art of war gradually evolved into new forms through the contributions of such men as the great commander Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon, his son Alexander the Great, and others. He also discusses the independence of land and sea power, describes the first use of calvary, and tells of the ingenious Greek devices of siegecraft, including the "fifth column."

Book Alexander s Heirs

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  • Author : Edward M. Anson
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2014-04-24
  • ISBN : 1118862406
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Alexander s Heirs written by Edward M. Anson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander’s Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age. Offers an account of the power struggles between Alexander’s rival generals in the forty year period following his death Discusses how Alexander’s vast empire ultimately became the Hellenistic World Makes full use of primary and secondary sources Accessible to a broad audience of students, university scholars, and the educated general reader Explores important scholarly debates on the Diadochi

Book The Legacy of Alexander

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  • Author : A. B. Bosworth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0198153066
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Legacy of Alexander written by A. B. Bosworth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the colourful and turbulent period after the death of Alexander the Great and the extraordinary people who created the Successor monarchies. It explains how and why Alexander's empire was split up and investigates the fate of the Macedonian army of conquest.

Book The Age of Alexander

Download or read book The Age of Alexander written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably by Shakespeare. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, depicting, as he put it, 'those actions which illuminate the workings of the soul'. We learn why the mild Artaxerxes forced the killer of his usurping brother to undergo the horrific 'death of two boats'; why the noble Dion repeatedly risked his life for the ungrateful mobs of Syracuse; why Demosthenes delivered a funeral oration for the soldiers he had deserted in battle; and why Alexander, the most enigmatic of tyrants, self-destructed after conquering half the world.

Book Antigonos the One Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State

Download or read book Antigonos the One Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State written by Richard A. Billows and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called by Plutarch "the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors," Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the first detailed study of this great general and administrator, establishing him as a key contributor to the Hellenistic monarchy and state. After a successful career under Philip and Alexander, Antigonos rose to power over the Asian portion of Alexander's conquests. Embittered by the persistent hostility of those who controlled the European and Egyptian parts of the empire, he tried to eliminate these opponents, an ambition which led to his final defeat in 301. In a corrective to the standard explanations of his aims, Billows shows that Antigonos was scarcely influenced by Alexander, seeking to rule West Asia and the Aegean, rather than the whole of Alexander's Empire.

Book Ghost on the Throne

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  • Author : James Romm
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-11-13
  • ISBN : 0307456609
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Ghost on the Throne written by James Romm and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire.

Book Dividing the Spoils

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  • Author : Robin Waterfield
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-11
  • ISBN : 0199931526
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Dividing the Spoils written by Robin Waterfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world.

Book By the Spear

Download or read book By the Spear written by Ian Worthington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique military and cultural history that chronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.

Book The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great  Second Edition

Download or read book The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great Second Edition written by Andrew Chugg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 the author's first book "The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great" was published to the accompaniment of international media attention, since it reported the first credible suggestion as to the current whereabouts of the long-vanished corpse of the illustrious conqueror. In the intervening years, progress by testing the candidate remains has been thwarted by the Church authorities, yet much new information has emerged, casting the enigma in an ever more probing light. In this extensively updated and extended account, the meanderings of the evidence have been tracked with scrupulous care and the tangled threads of erstwhile hidden history have been teased apart. Thus the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world are laid bare, culminating in the novel suggestion that the body stolen from Alexandria in AD828 and now in Venice may have acquired a false identity at the time that paganism was outlawed by the Emperor of Rome in the 4th century AD.

Book Parallel Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plutarch
  • Publisher : e-artnow
  • Release : 2018-11-02
  • ISBN : 8027244579
  • Pages : 1623 pages

Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Plutarch and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 1623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans or Parallel Lives is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD by Plutarch. Parallel Lives comprises 23 pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals described, but also about the times in which they lived. Volume I contains 13 pairs of biographies from Theseus and Romulus to Cimon and Lucullus, with comparisons.