Alexander & his successors
Subtitle: essays from the Antipodes : a companion to Crossroads of history: the age of Alexander; Alexander's empire: formulation to decay
By: Pat Wheatley & Robert Hannah, editors
Publisher: Regina Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Claremont, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781930053588
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Congresses; History
Other titles: Alexander and his successors; Crossroads of history.; Alexander's empire.
Notes: "A third international symposium, entitled 'Alexander the Great and his Successors', was held for invited delegates from 23-25 August 2006, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand"--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Elizabeth Baynham; title: Johann Gustav Droysen, Alexander the Great and the Creation of the Hellenestic Age  -- Brian Bosworth; title: Source-Critical Reflections on Cleitarchus' Work  -- Victor Parker; title: Jeder Hat Alexander-Bild, Das Er Verdient: The Changing Perceptions of Alexander in Ancient Historiography  -- Boris Dreyer; title: Historical Method and a Chronological Problem in Diodorus, Book 18  -- John Walsh; title: Philip II and the Creation of the Macedonian Pezhetairoi  -- Edward M. Anson; title: The Asthetairoi: A Closer Look  -- Waldemar Heckel; title: Macedonians, Heroes and Athenian Burial Laws  -- Lara O'Sullivan; title: Alexander's Snake Sire  -- Daniel Ogden; title: The Divinity of Alexander in Egypt: A Reassessment  -- Andrew Collins; title: Omens of the Death of Alexander the Great  -- Paul McKechnie; title: The Death of Alexander the Great: Reconsidering Poison  -- Leo Schep; title: The Decadence of the Thessalians: A Topos in the Greek Intellectual Tradition from Critas to the Time of Alexander  -- Frances Pownall; title: Cassander's Wife and Heirs  -- Franca Landucci Gattinoni; title: Some Remarks on the Funerals of the Kings: From Philip II to the Diadochi  -- Victor Alonso; title: The 'Otago Alexander'  -- Robert Hannah; title: (Re)Making Demosthenes: Demochares and Demetrius of Phalerum on Demosthenes  -- Craig Cooper; title: The Besieger in Syria, 314-312 BC. Historiographic and Chronological Notes -- Pat Wheatley.