The history of the Argeads new perspectives
The Macedonian Argead Empire had an interesting and fascinating history already before its rise under its most famous rulers Philip II and his son Alexander III. Furthermore, the history of their predecessors provides a context for understanding their activities. This volume, based on a conference o...
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Harrassowitz Verlag
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Classica et orientalia
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Macedonian Argead Empire had an interesting and fascinating history already before its rise under its most famous rulers Philip II and his son Alexander III. Furthermore, the history of their predecessors provides a context for understanding their activities. This volume, based on a conference on Argead Macedonia in 2015, offers an account of the place of Argead Macedonia in the wider ancient world from the sixth century BC to the second century AD and beyond. Argead Macedonia is explored in the context of its regal, structural, historical, courtly and military traditions. Its alliances and enmities, its political networks and environment are scrutinized particularly in regard to Persia, but also to Greece Persia, Thrake, and Skudra / Jeffrey D. Lerner -- The achaemenid creation of Karia / Jeremy LaBuff -- The Persian impact on Bithynia, Commagene, Pontus, and Cappadocia / Christoph Michels -- The Persian impact on Macedonia : three case studies / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Geography and politics in Argead Makedonia / Waldemar Heckel -- Coins and constructions : the origins of Ardead coinage under Alexander I / Johannes Heinrichs -- Plain tales from the hills : Illyrian influences on Argead military development / Timothy Howe -- Alexander's tents and camp life / Victor Alonso Troncoso & Mauricio Álvarez Rico -- The Macedonian economy under the Argeads / Kai Ruffing -- Argead marriage policy / Elizabeth Carney -- The Argeads : archaeological evidence / Olga Palagia -- The Argeads and the Greek sanctuaries / Hugh Bowden -- The symbolic capital of the Argeads / Sabine Müller -- The Hellenic impact on Ancient Macedonia : conceptualizing origin and authority / Elias Koulakiotis -- The role of Greek literature in the Argead court / Frances Pownall -- Macedonian body language in the attic orators / Joseph Roisman -- Ghosts from the past : the memory of Alexander I of Macedonia and its propagandistic use during the reign of Philip II / Goiseppe Squillace -- Philip II and the Scythians in the light of Alexander historiography / Reinhold Bichler -- Cassander and the Argeads / Franca Landucci -- The Argeads and the second sophistic / Sulochana R. Asirvatham -- Concluding remarks / Richard Stoneman |
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| Beschreibung: | Conference in June 2015 at Innsbruck University (Introduction) |
| Beschreibung: | VI, 304 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm, 568 g |
| ISBN: | 3447108517 3-447-10851-7 9783447108515 978-3-447-10851-5 |