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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792603503321

Titolo

After Alexander : the time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) / / edited by Víctor Alonso Troncoso and Edward M. Anson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Oakville, [Ontario] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78297-063-0

1-78297-065-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Disciplina

938/.08

Soggetti

Greece History Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C Congresses

Macedonia History Diadochi, 323-276 B.C Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The Diadochi history in cuneiform : documentation / Tom Boiy -- The Heidelberg epitome : a neglected Diadoch source / Pat Wheatley -- Seleucus vs. Antigonus : a study on the sources / Franca Landucci Gattinoni -- Duris of Samos and the Diadochi / Frances Pownall -- The Diadochi, invented : tradition, and Alexander's expedition to Siwah / Timothy Howe -- Strabo, India and barbequed Brahmans / Brian Bosworth -- What we do not know about the age of the Diadochi : the methodological consequences of the gaps in the evidence / Alexander Meeus -- The Battle of Gabene : Eumenes' inescapable doom? / Edward M. Anson -- Alexander's Argyraspids : tough old fighters or Antigonid myth? / Elizabeth Baynham -- Agora XVI 107 and the royal title of Demetrius Poliorcetes / Paschalis Paschidis -- Adeimantus of Lampsacus and the development of the early Hellenistic Philos / Shane Wallace -- Iranians in the Diadochi period / Marek Jan Olbrycht -- Nullis umquam nisi domesticis regibus : Cappadocia, Pontus and the resistance to the Diadochi in Asia Minor / Luis Ballesteros Pastor -- The female element of the political self-fashioning of the Diadochi : Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysimachus, and their Iranian wives / Sabine Müller -- Alexander the Great, Ptolemy I and the offerings of arms to Athena Lindia / Giuseppe Squillace -- Propaganda strategies and political document : Philip III's diagramma and the Greeks in 319 BC / Elisabetta



Poddighe -- The Alexandrian foundation myth : Alexander, Ptolemy, the Agathoi Daimones and the Argolaoi / Daniel Ogden -- The Diadochi and the zoology of kingship : the elephants / Víctor Alonso Troncoso.