Alexander's Marshals
Alexander's Marshals

Author: Waldemar Heckel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1317389220

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This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to personalities, bias in the sources, and the social as well as military setting, including more on familial connections and regional origins in an attempt to create a better understanding of factions. The major confrontations, military and political, are treated in greater detail within the biographies, and a discussion of the organization and command structure of the Makedonian army has been added.

The Marshals of Alexander's Empire
The Marshals of Alexander's Empire

Author: Waldemar Heckel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-26

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1134942656

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This book presents for the first time in English a detailed study of the closest friends and most trusted commanders of Alexander the Great - their career-progress, their rivalry with one another, and their influence on Alexander. The Marshals of Alexander's Empire is a blend of biography and prosopography that sheds light on some of the most dynamic individuals of the age of Alexander.

The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great

Author: Daniel Ogden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1108887422

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Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Here, an international team of experts clearly explains the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. They introduce key themes of his campaign as well as describing aspects of his court and government and exploring the very different natures of his engagements with the various peoples he encountered and their responses to him. The reader is also introduced to the key sources, including the more important fragmentary historians, especially Ptolemy, Aristobulus and Clitarchus, with their different perspectives. The book closes by considering how Alexander's image was manipulated in antiquity itself.

Mr. Marshal's Flower Book
Mr. Marshal's Flower Book

Author: Alexander Marshal

Publisher: Royal Collection

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905686032

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A dazzling rendition of the 17th-century horticulturist's famed watercolors, this most exquisite and fascinating work of botanical art has been admired for centuries for its dazzling color and its incredible attention to the intricacies of a varied array of plant species. The collection will delight garden enthusiasts and art lovers alike.Viking Studio

Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great
Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great

Author: Joseph Roisman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002-12-16

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 900421755X

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Many important issues surrounding Alexander the Great's conquest have captured the interest of scholars and general readers since antiquity. This book acquaints us with these issues and their current interpretations, and opens up new directions of investigation as it confronts them. It covers a broad range of topics: the ancients' representations of the king in literature and art; Alexander's relations with Greeks, Macedonians, and the peoples of Asia; the military, political, sociological, and cultural aspects of his campaigns; the exploitation of his story by ancient philosophers to argue a moral point and by modern communities to affirm or contest ethnic and national identities. This volume will be of interest to scholars and nonspecialists alike and serve as a standard reference work for years to come.

The Mediterranean Sea From Alexander To The Rise Of Rome
The Mediterranean Sea From Alexander To The Rise Of Rome

Author: Mark Luttenberger

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 1662469128

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This book is designed to describe the environmental, political, socioeconomic, and military life of the inhabitants that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea from the fourth through the second centuries BC. This story relates the complex dynamic interrelationships among the people and states of the Mediterranean basin. The book explores the greater Mediterranean world that stretched from India to Spain. It begins with a review of some of the geographical, environmental, and structural characteristics of the Mediterranean basin. The balance of the book then proceeds to trace the political, military, and economic development of this region. We review the rise of Macedon under Philip II through the conquests of Alexander the Great. In the eastern basin, the development and conflicts of the Hellenistic kingdoms of the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Antigonid dynasties are then traced. We then turn the page and discuss the rise of Carthage and Rome as republics in the western basin. Next, the conflict between these two powers is analyzed which leaves Rome supreme in the west. The next chapters narrate the struggle between Rome and the Hellenistic kingdoms for dominance in the east. The book concludes with Roman supremacy established throughout the Mediterranean by the end of the second century. From the apex conqueror of antiquity Alexander the Great, we conclude with the establishment of the apex empire that was Rome.

Ancient Historiography on War and Empire
Ancient Historiography on War and Empire

Author: Timothy Howe

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2016-11-30

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1785703021

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In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; the murders of Philip II, his last and seventh wife Kleopatra, and her guardian, Attalos; Alexander the Great’s combat use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of character in the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority. In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the ‘literary’ and in others more towards the ‘historical’, but what all of the essays have in common is both a critical attention to the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire.

Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction

Author: A. B. Bosworth

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780199252756

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Ten essays from a symposium held at Newcastle University in 1997, which examine the general themes of kingship and imperialism by focusing on the romances that surround Alexander.

A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C.
A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C.

Author: M. Cary

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-28

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1040035019

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A History of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their statecraft, war-craft and economic practice; and a summary of later Greek achievement in the fields of art, literature, science, philosophy and religion.

Philip and Alexander
Philip and Alexander

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 046509550X

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This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world -- and their rise and fall from power. Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time and building a new one in their place. He claimed to be the son of a god, but he was actually the son of Philip II of Macedon. Philip inherited a minor kingdom that was on the verge of dismemberment, but despite his youth and inexperience, he made Macedonia dominant throughout Greece. It was Philip who created the armies that Alexander led into war against Persia. In Philip and Alexander, classical historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows that without the work and influence of his father, Alexander could not have achieved so much. This is the groundbreaking biography of two men who together conquered the world.