Ancient historiography on war and empire 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 Arrians Anabasis Maxim M. Kholod The eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians Hugh Bowden The casualty figures of Alexanders army Jacek Rzepka Alexanders 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 Plutarchs 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