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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 938.07
• Soggetto geografico: Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C
• Persona (resp. second.): HoweTimothy; GarvinE. Edward (Erin Edward); WrightsonGraham (Graham Charles Liquorish); HeckelWaldemar <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Greece, Macedon and Persia
• ISBN: 1-78297-926-3; 1-78297-924-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797974203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II