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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxbow Books Ltd
Publication date
December 31, 2016
Pages
304
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781785702990
ISBN-10
1785702998
Dimensions
0 by 6.69 by 9.44 in.
Original list price
$75.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; the murders of Philip II, his last and seventh wife Kleopatra, and her guardian, Attalos; Alexander the Great’s combat use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of character in the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority. In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the ‘literary’ and in others more towards the ‘historical’, but what all of the essays have in common is both a critical attention to the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Forward: Ancient Historiography and Ancient History
Part I: Introduction
1 Why History? On the Emergence of Historical Writing
Mark Munn
Part II: Persia and Greece
2 The Political and the Divine in Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
Eran Almagor
3 Cyrus the Great and the Sacrifices for a Dead King
Josef Wiesehöfer
4 The Horse and the Stag: Philistus’ View of Tyrants
Frances Pownall
Part III: Macedon
5 Alexander II of Macedon
William Greenwalt
6 ‘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
7 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
8 The Financial Administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: An Interpretation of
Two Passages from Arrian’s Anabasis
Maxim M. Kholod
9 The Eagle has Landed: Divination in the Alexander Historians
Hugh Bowden
10 The Casualty Figures of Alexander’s Army
Jacek Rzepka
11 Alexander’s battles against Persians in the art of the Successors
Olga Palagia
12 How the Hoopoe Got His Crest: Reflections on Megasthenes’ Stories of India
Richard Stoneman
13 Creating the King: The Image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1-10
Aleksandra Klęczar
Part V: Second Sophistic Rome
14 The Hero vs. the Tyrant: Legitimate And Illegitimate Rule in Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar
Rebecca Frank
15 Plutarch’s Alexander, Dionysos and the Metaphysics of Power
Elias Koulakiotis
16 The Artistic King: Reflections on a Topos in Second Sophistic Historiography
Sabine Müller
17 Flattery, History, and the Pepaideumenos
Sulochana Asirvatham
Index
Table of Contents
Contributors
Forward: Ancient Historiography and Ancient History
Part I: Introduction
1 Why History? On the Emergence of Historical Writing
Mark Munn
Part II: Persia and Greece
2 The Political and the Divine in Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions
Eran Almagor
3 Cyrus the Great and the Sacrifices for a Dead King
Josef Wiesehöfer
4 The Horse and the Stag: Philistus’ View of Tyrants
Frances Pownall
Part III: Macedon
5 Alexander II of Macedon
William Greenwalt
6 ‘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
7 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
8 The Financial Administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: An Interpretation of
Two Passages from Arrian’s Anabasis
Maxim M. Kholod
9 The Eagle has Landed: Divination in the Alexander Historians
Hugh Bowden
10 The Casualty Figures of Alexander’s Army
Jacek Rzepka
11 Alexander’s battles against Persians in the art of the Successors
Olga Palagia
12 How the Hoopoe Got His Crest: Reflections on Megasthenes’ Stories of India
Richard Stoneman
13 Creating the King: The Image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1-10
Aleksandra Klęczar
Part V: Second Sophistic Rome
14 The Hero vs. the Tyrant: Legitimate And Illegitimate Rule in Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar
Rebecca Frank
15 Plutarch’s Alexander, Dionysos and the Metaphysics of Power
Elias Koulakiotis
16 The Artistic King: Reflections on a Topos in Second Sophistic Historiography
Sabine Müller
17 Flattery, History, and the Pepaideumenos
Sulochana Asirvatham
Index
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