Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel

229 Pages·2015·14.32 MB·English

by  Timothy Howe

GREECE, MACEDON AND PERSIA

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
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CONTENTS
Waldemar Heckel, Bibliography vii
Contributors xi
Forward xiii
Introduction: Wald 1
1 Darius I and the Problems of (Re)conquest: Resistance, false identities
and the impact of the past 5
Sabine Müller
2 Clausewitz, the Culminating Point of Attack, and Greco-Persian Wars 11
E. Edward Garvin
3 Thucydides and the Failure in Sicily 27
Brian Bosworth
4 Women and Symposia in Macedonia 33
Elizabeth Carney
5 Infantry and the Evolution of Argead Macedonia 41
William Greenwalt
6 Equine Aspects of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian Cavalry 47
Carolyn Willekes
7 Macedonian Armies and the Perfection of Combined Arms 59
Graham Wrightson
8 Military Unrest in the Age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon:
Defining the terms of debate 69
Lee L. Brice
9 Opposition to Macedonian Kings: Riots for rewards and verbal protests 77
Joseph Roisman
vi Contents
10 Arrian and ‘Roman’ Military Tactics. Alexander’s campaign
against the Autonomous Thracians 87
Timothy Howe
11 Counter-Insurgency: The lesson of Alexander the Great 94
Edward M. Anson
12 The Comparison between Alexander and Philip.
Use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme 107
Guiseppe Squillace
13 The Callisthenes Enigma 114
Gordon Shrimpton
14 Alexander’s Unintended Legacy: Borders 118
Stanley Burstein
15 Cleomenes of Naucratis, Villain or Victim? 127
Elizabeth Baynham
16 Cult of the Dead and Vision of the Afterlife
in Early Hellenistic Macedonia 135
Franca Landucci Gattinoni
17 The Career of Sostratos of Knidos: Politics, Diplomacy and the
Alexandrian Building Programme in the Early Hellenistic Period 143
Alexander Meeus
18 What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus? 172
Daniel Ogden
19 Polybius on Naval Warfare 181
Philip DeSouza
20 Rome’s Apparent Disinterest in Macedonia 168–148 BC 198
John Vanderspoel
Index 207
WALDEMAR HECKEL, BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
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tr. by J. C. Yardley, with introduction, notes 1930053282 (hbk) 1930053290 (pbk).
and appendices by W. Heckel. (Penguin The Greeks at War. From Athens to Alexander, Philip
Classics: Harmondsworth, 1984) pp. 337. ISBN de Souza, Waldemar Heckel and Lloyd Llewellyn-
0140444122. Reprinted with corrections 2001; Jones. Forward by Victor Davis Hanson (Osprey,
repr. with updated bibliography 2004; republished 2004).
by BCA 2004. Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great.
Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World: The Nickle Prosopography of Alexander’s Empire (Oxford:
Numismatic Papers, edited by W. Heckel and R. Blackwell Publishers, 2006). ISBN 1405112107.
D. Sullivan (WLU Press: Waterloo, 1984) pp. xvi, The Macedonian Warrior: Alexander’s Elite Infantryman,
307. ISBN 0889201307. Papers of the Nickle Waldemar Heckel and Ryan Jones; Christa Hook
Numismatics Conference, Calgary, October 19– (Illustrator). Warrior series. (Osprey, 2006) ISBN
23, 1981. 1841769509.
The Last Days and Testament of Alexander the Great: Alexander’s Empire. Formulation to Decay, edited by
A Prosopographic Study. Historia Einzelschriften, Waldemar Heckel, L. A. Tritle and P. V. Wheatley
Heft 56 (Stuttgart, 1988) xiv, 114. (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2007). ISBN
The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (Routledge: 1930053452.
London and New York, 1992), xxvi, 416. ISBN The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Key Conflicts
0415050537. Out of print, but available in Kindle of the Ancient World. (Cambridge: Cambridge
electronic version. University Press, 2007). ISBN 9780521842471.
Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Alexander the Great: A New History. Edited by
Trogus, Volume I. Books 11–12: Alexander the Great, Waldemar Heckel and L. A. Tritle. (Wiley-
trans. by J. C. Yardley, commentary by W. Heckel, Blackwell, 2009). ISBN 97811405130813 (cloth);
Clarendon Ancient History Series (Oxford, 1997) ISBN 97811405130820 (pbk).
xxiv, 360. ISBN 0198149077 (hbk); 0198149085 Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius
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