Alexander's Empire : Formulation to Decay

by Heckler, Waldemar; Tritle, Lawrence; Wheatley, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781930053458
• ISBN10: 1930053452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Regina Books

Table of Contents

Rhetoric of Philippizing	p. 1
The panhellenism of Isocrates	p. 13
The Philippeum, women, and the formation of dynastic image	p. 27
Born to rule? : succession in the Argead royal house	p. 61
Two studies in the reception and representation of Alexander's sexuality	p. 75
Alexander, Cleitus and Lanice : upbringing and maintenance	p. 109
The games of Alexander the Great	p. 125
The gardener became a king, or did he? : the case of Abdalonymus of Sidon	p. 139
Corinth, Greek freedom, and the Diadochoi, 323-301 B.C.	p. 151
An introduction to the chronological problems in early diadoch sources and scholarship	p. 179
Early Hellenistic chronology : the cuneiform evidence	p. 193
Cuneiform tablets and Aramaic Ostraca : between the low and high chronologies of the early diadoch period	p. 199
War elephants in the Hellenistic world	p. 209
Alexander as icon : some socio-political contexts of Alexander the Great in twentieth-century fiction	p. 233
The Arrian parchment in Gothenburg : new digital processing methods and initial results	p. 245
The earliest evidence for the plot to Poison Alexander	p. 265
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