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Zusatztext There is a great deal to like in this wide-ranging and erudite volume, and precious little to criticise ... and the quality of the scholarship is manifest ... this volume represents a refreshingly different, and deeply necessary, approach to all that surrounds the Macedonian conqueror. Informationen zum Autor Pat Wheatley is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Klappentext This volume! dedicated to Professor Brian Bosworth! is a collection of essays written by twenty international scholars! and takes as its focus the life of Alexander the Great! although coverage also extends from Egyptian and Homeric parallels! through Roman historiography! to Byzantine coinage. Zusammenfassung This volume, dedicated to Professor Brian Bosworth, is a collection of essays written by twenty international scholars, and takes as its focus the life of Alexander the Great, although coverage also extends from Egyptian and Homeric parallels, through Roman historiography, to Byzantine coinage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Maps and Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham: Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation; Works by A. B. Bosworth; 1 Judith Maitland †: MHNIN AEI?E TAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles; 2 Waldemar Heckel: Alexander! Achilles! and Heracles: Between Myth and History; 3 Lara O'Sullivan: Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God; 4 Elizabeth Baynham: Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC; 5 Edward M. Anson: Alexander at the Beas; 6 David Whitehead: Alexander the Great and the Mechanici; 7 Ian Worthington: From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree; 8 Norman G. Ashton: Craterus Revisited; 9 Daniel Ogden: Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World; 10 Timothy Howe: Cleopatra-Eurydice! Olympias! and a 'Weak' Alexander; 11 Elizabeth D. Carney: Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia; 12 Robin Lane Fox: King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery; 13 Ken Sheedy and Boyo Ockinga: The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt; 14 Pat Wheatley: Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence; 15 Getzel M. Cohen: Polis Hellenis; 16 David Kennedy: Thapsacus and Zeugma; 17 Jane Bellemore: Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great; 18 Arthur J. Pomeroy: Tacitus and the Crises of Empire; 19 John R. Melville-Jones: Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III; Bibliography ...
