Greece, Macedon and Persia
Subtitle: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel
By: edited by Timothy Howe, E. Edward Garvin and Graham Wrightson
Contributors: Heckel, Waldemar, 1949- honouree
Edition: Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781782979234; 9781782979241
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Darius I and the problems of (re)conquest: resistance, false identities and the impact of the past / Sabine Müller; title: Clausewitz, the culminating point of attack, and Greco-Persian wars / E. Edward Garvin; title: Thucydides and the failure in Sicily / Brian Bosworth; title: Women and symposia in Macedonia / Elizabeth Carney; title: Infantry and the evolution of Argead Macedonia / William Greenwalt; title: Equine aspects of Alexander the Great's Macedonian cavalry / Carolyn Willekes; title: Macedonian armies and the perfection of combined arms / Graham Wrightson; title: Military unrest in the age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon: defining the terms of debate / Lee L. Brice; title: Opposition to Macedonian kings: riots for rewards and verbal protests / Joseph Roisman; title: Arrian and "Roman" military tactics: Alexander's campaign against the autonomous Thracians / Timothy Howe; title: Counter-insurgency: the lesson of Alexander the Great / Edward M. Anson; title: The comparison between Alexander and Philip: use and metamorphosis of an ideological theme / Guiseppe Squillace; title: The Callisthenes enigma / Gordon Shrimpton; title: Alexander's unintended legacy: borders / Stanley Burstein; title: Cleomenes of Naucratis, villain or victim? / Elizabeth Baynham; title: Cult of the dead and vision of the afterlife in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni; title: The career of Sostratos of Knidos: politics, diplomacy and the Alexandrian building programme in the early Hellenistic period / Alexander Meeus; title: What did Arsinoe tell Lysimachus about Philetaerus? / Daniel Ogden; title: Polybius on naval warfare / Philip DeSouza; title: Rome's apparent disinterest in Macedonia 168-148 BC / John Vanderspoel.