03632nam 2200601Ia 450 99620551720331620230725032635.01-280-59489-697866136247270-19-990877-X(CKB)2670000000151145(EBL)886581(OCoLC)778099195(SSID)ssj0000613048(PQKBManifestationID)11407350(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613048(PQKBWorkID)10584711(PQKB)10181724(StDuBDS)EDZ0000077393(MiAaPQ)EBC886581(EXLCZ)99267000000015114520110224d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTrouble in the west[electronic resource] the Persian Empire and Egypt, 525-332 BCE /Stephen RuzickaOxford Oxford University Press20121 online resource (338 p.)Oxford Studies in Early EmpiresDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-993271-9 0-19-976662-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; List of Illustrations; Maps; Introduction: Stories and Sources; 1. Persia and Egypt: The Historical Context; 2. Persian Success: Conquest and Kingship, 525-518; 3. Managing Egypt, 518-415; 4. Losing Egypt, 415-400; 5. Securing the Eastern Mediterranean, 400-395; 6. Into the Aegean, 394-392; 7. To Egypt: Preparations and Campaign, 391-387; 8. The Egyptian War and the King's Peace, 387-386; 9. Egypt Strikes Back: The Cypriot War and the Struggle for the Eastern Mediterranean, 386-379; 10. Preparing the Second Campaign: Engaging Greeks, 380-37311. Pharnabazus and Iphicrates' Egyptian Campaign, 37312. Court Politics and the Collapse of the Third Campaign, 372-365; 13. Egyptian Strategy Shifts: The Genesis of Tachos' Great Offensive, 364-361; 14. Tachos: Campaign and Collapse, 360-359; 15. Persian Counterattack, 359?; 16. Artaxerxes III: King and Commander, 358-350; 17. Loss and Recovery of the Middle Territory, 350-345; 18. Persian Success, 344-342; 19. From Artaxerxes III to Alexander III, 342-332; 20. East, West, and Far West after the Persians: The Long View; Appendix A. Kings of Egypt and PersiaAppendix B. Timeline/Chronological ChartList of Abbreviations; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; XTrouble in the West provides the first full and continuous account of the Persian-Egyptian War, a conflict that continued for nearly the two-hundred-year duration of the Persian Empire. Despite its status as the largest of all ancient Persian military enterprises- including any aimed at Greece- this conflict has never been reconstructed in any detailed and comprehensive way. Thus, Trouble in the West adds tremendously to our understanding of Persian imperial affairs. At the same time, it dramatically revises our understanding of eastern Mediterranean and Aegean affairs by linking Persian dealiOxford Studies in Early EmpiresEgyptHistoryTo 332 B.CIranHistoryTo 640EgyptHistory, Military935.05935/.05Ruzicka Stephen1946-1018717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996205517203316Trouble in the west2397496UNISA