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Table of Contents:

• Darius I and the problems of (re)conquest: resistance, false identities and the impact of the past / Sabine Müller
• Clausewitz, the culminating point of attack, and Greco-Persian wars / E. Edward Garvin
• Thucydides and the failure in Sicily / Brian Bosworth
• Women and symposia in Macedonia / Elizabeth Carney
• Infantry and the evolution of Argead Macedonia / William Greenwalt
• Equine aspects of Alexander the Great's Macedonian cavalry / Carolyn Willekes
• Macedonian armies and the perfection of combined arms / Graham Wrightson
• Military unrest in the age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon: defining the terms of debate / Lee L. Brice
• Opposition to Macedonian kings: riots for rewards and verbal protests / Joseph Roisman
• Arrian and "Roman" military tactics: Alexander's campaign against the autonomous Thracians / Timothy Howe
• Counter-insurgency: the lesson of Alexander the Great / Edward M. Anson
• The comparison between Alexander and Philip: use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme / Guiseppe Squillace
• The Callisthenes enigma / Gordon Shrimpton
• Alexander's unintended legacy: borders / Stanley Burstein
• Cleomenes of Naucratis, villain or victim? / Elizabeth Baynham
• Cult of the dead and vision of the afterlife in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni
• The career of Sostratos of Knidos: politics, diplomacy and the Alexandrian building programme in the early Hellenistic period / Alexander Meeus
• What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus? / Daniel Ogden
• Polybius on naval warfare / Philip DeSouza
• Rome's apparent disinterest in Macedonia 168-148 BC / John Vanderspoel.

Contributors:

Howe, Timothy , editor

Garvin, E. Edward (Erin Edward) , editor

Wrightson, Graham (Graham Charles Liquorish) , editor

Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- , honouree

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Greece, Macedon and Persia (Hardcover edition; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 — ISBN 9781782979241; LCCN 2015011177)

Subjects:

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Greece — History — Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DF234 .G66 2015

ISBNs:

9781782979241 (electronic bk.)
1782979247 (electronic bk.)
9781782979234 (hardback) [Invalid]
1782979239 (hardback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

905450291

Other Control Numbers:

1131569 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12762861