LEADER 03270nam 2200493 450 001 9910792678103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78570-302-1 010 $a1-78570-300-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973342 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4770584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11318407 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL979260 035 $a(OCoLC)964065992 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4770584 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973342 100 $a20170104h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aAncient historiography on war and empire /$fedited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Mu?ller and Richard Stoneman 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cOxbow Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 311 $a1-78570-299-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword: ancient historiography and ancient history -- Part I. Introduction -- Why history? On the emergence of historical writing / Mark Munn -- Part II. Persia and Greece -- The political and the divine in Achaemenid royal inscriptions / Eran Almagor -- Cyrus the Great and the sacrifices for a dead king / Josef Wieseho?fer -- The horse and the stag: Philistus' view of tyrants / Frances Pownall -- Part III. Macedon -- Alexander II of Macedon / William Greenwalt -- "The giver of the bride, the bridegroom, and the bride": a study of the death of Philip II and its aftermath / Waldemar Heckel, Timothy Howe and Sabine Mu?ller -- Royal tombs and cult of the dead kings in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni -- Part IV. The empires of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi -- The financial administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: an interpretation of two passages from Arrian's Anabasis / Maxim M. Kholod -- The eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians / Hugh Bowden -- The casualty figures of Alexander's army / Jacek Rzepka -- Alexander's battles against Persians in the art of the successors / Olga Palagia -- How the hoopoe got his crest: reflections on Megasthenes' stories of India / Richard Stoneman -- Creating the king: the image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1:10 / Aleksandra Kleczar -- Part V. Second sophistic Rome -- The hero vs. the tyrant: legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Alexander-Caesar pairing / Rebecca Frank -- Plutarch's Alexander, dionysos and the metaphysics of power / Elias Koulakiotis -- The artistic king: reflections on a topos in second sophistic historiography / Sabine Mu?ller -- Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham. 606 $aMilitary history, Ancient$xHistoriography 606 $aHistory, Ancient$xHistoriography 615 0$aMilitary history, Ancient$xHistoriography. 615 0$aHistory, Ancient$xHistoriography. 676 $a938.0072 702 $aHowe$b Timothy 702 $aMu?ller$b Sabine 702 $aStoneman$b Richard 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792678103321 996 $aAncient historiography on war and empire$93688774 997 $aUNINA