Ancient historiography on war and empire / / edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller and Richard Stoneman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 938.0072 |
Soggetto topico |
Military history, Ancient - Historiography
History, Ancient - Historiography |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-78570-302-1
1-78570-300-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155080103321 |
Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ancient historiography on war and empire / / edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller and Richard Stoneman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 938.0072 |
Soggetto topico |
Military history, Ancient - Historiography
History, Ancient - Historiography |
ISBN |
1-78570-302-1
1-78570-300-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword: 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 Wiesehöfer -- 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 Müller -- 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 Müller -- Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792678103321 |
Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ancient historiography on war and empire / / edited by Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller and Richard Stoneman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
Disciplina | 938.0072 |
Soggetto topico |
Military history, Ancient - Historiography
History, Ancient - Historiography |
ISBN |
1-78570-302-1
1-78570-300-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword: 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 Wiesehöfer -- 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 Müller -- 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 Müller -- Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827127103321 |
Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2017 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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