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UNINA9910797974203321 |
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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 |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1-78297-926-3 |
1-78297-924-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Waldemar Heckel, Bibliography; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Wald; Chapter 1: Darius I and the Problems of (Re)conquest: Resistance, false identities and the impact of the past; Chapter 2: Clausewitz and Ancient Warfare; Chapter 3: Thucydides and the Failure in Sicily; Chapter 4: Women and Symposia in Macedonia; Chapter 5: Infantry and the Evolution of Argead Macedonia; Chapter 6: Equine Aspects of Alexander the Great's Macedonian Cavalry; Chapter 7: Macedonian Armies, Elephants, and the Perfection of Combined Arms |
Chapter 8: Military Unrest in the Age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon: Defining the terms of debateChapter 9: Opposition to Macedonian Kings: Riots for rewards and verbal protests; Chapter 10: Arrian and 'Roman' Military Tactics. Alexander's campaign against the Autonomous Thracians; Chapter 11: Counter-Insurgency: The lesson of Alexander the Great; Chapter 12: The Comparison between Alexander and Philip. Use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme; Chapter 13: The Callisthenes Enigma; Chapter 14: Alexander's Unintended Legacy: Borders |
Chapter 15: Cleomenes of Naucratis, Villain or Victim?Chapter 16: Cult |
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of the Dead and Vision of the Afterlife in Early Hellenistic Macedonia; Chapter 17: The Career of Sostratos of Knidos: Politics, Diplomacy and the Alexandrian Building Programme in the Early Hellenistic Period; Chapter 18: What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus?; Chapter 19: Polybius on Naval Warfare; Chapter 20: Rome's Apparent Disinterest in Macedonia 168-148 BCE; Index |
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