A.M. Hakkert, 1975. — 130 p. There is an almost strange quality to much of the surviving evidence for political thought in the Hellenistic period. The philosophers usually taken to be most characteristic of the Hellenistic period and whose views were to prove by far the most influential for subsequent political thinkers—the Epicureans, Stoics, and sometimes, honorifically,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians in the repopulation and rebuilding of their daughter-city, Abdera in...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians in the repopulation and rebuilding of their daughter-city, Abdera in...
University of Toronto Press, 2024. — 416 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 61). The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in...
University of Toronto Press, 2024. — 416 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 61). The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in...
Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1996. — xvii, 579 p. — (Hellenistic Culture and Society 18). A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study,...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 416 p. The Hellenistic period was a time of unprecedented cultural exchange. In the wake of Alexander’s conquests, Greeks and Macedonians began to encounter new peoples, new ideas, and new ways of life; consequently, this era is generally considered to have been one of unmatched cosmopolitanism. For many individuals, however, the broadening of...
Editors. — Future Publishing, 2021. — 148 р. — (All About History). Alexander the Great chronicles the life of one of the greatest figures in history – from his birth to parents Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias, through to his death at the age of 32. It was a life in which he achieved greatness and came to be regarded as a god by the 40,000 men who, for eight long years,...
Clarendon Press, 1983. — 263 p. The Attalid Kingdom, centered on Pergamon, was the most important of the kingdoms of Asia Minor that emerged in the third and second centuries B.C. The first authoritative treatment of the subject since 1906, this book assesses the copious epigraphical evidence, discusses the significance of the reign of Attalos I and the of the Roman settlement...
University of California Press, 2010. - 246 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 52).
Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus...
University of California Press, 2010. - 246 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 52).
Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort has been made to connect the mythic life and career of Alexander to the stories about Jesus...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 372 p. The volume offers a timely (re-)appraisal of Seleukid cultural dynamics. While the engagement of Seleukid kings with local populations and the issue of “Hellenization” are still debated, a movement away from the Greco-centric approach to the study of the sources has gained pace. Increasingly textual sources are read alongside archaeological and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 372 p. The volume offers a timely (re-)appraisal of Seleukid cultural dynamics. While the engagement of Seleukid kings with local populations and the issue of “Hellenization” are still debated, a movement away from the Greco-centric approach to the study of the sources has gained pace. Increasingly textual sources are read alongside archaeological and...
Harper Collins Ibérica, 2019. — 425 p. Del ocaso de un reino al amanecer de un imperio: el encuentro entre Cleopatra, hábil y poderosa soberana de Egipto, y tres grandes protagonistas de la antigua Roma (César, Antonio y Octavio) cambiará para siempre el curso de la historia. El mundo de hoy no sería el mismo sin Cleopatra, una soberana culta, inteligente y dotada de una...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 241 p. Alexander the Great's life and career are here examined through the major issues surrounding his reign. What were Alexander's ultimate ambitions? Why did he pursue his own deification while alive? How did he administer his conquests? Did he actually set the world in ‘a new groove' as has been claimed by some scholars? Each of the key themes,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 248 p. Alexander’s Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age.Offers an account of the power struggles between Alexander’s rival generals in the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 241 p. Alexander the Great's life and career are here examined through the major issues surrounding his reign. What were Alexander's ultimate ambitions? Why did he pursue his own deification while alive? How did he administer his conquests? Did he actually set the world in ‘a new groove' as has been claimed by some scholars? Each of the key themes,...
Second Edition. — Brill, 2015. — 315 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 383; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 383 Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2nd edition) updates the original work in light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents much new analysis influenced by this continuing scholarship. Eumenes of Cardia was a royal...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 256 p. Philip II was not only the father of Alexander the Great, but in many respects was also the father of his son's incredible career. It was the father who unified Macedonia into the first European nation and who created the army with which his son conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated the Hellenistic Age. This volume is not the standard...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 256 p. Philip II was not only the father of Alexander the Great, but in many respects was also the father of his son's incredible career. It was the father who unified Macedonia into the first European nation and who created the army with which his son conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated the Hellenistic Age. This volume is not the standard...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 250 p. Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror’s death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt’s incorporation into the Roman Empire. This book is not...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 250 p. Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror’s death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt’s incorporation into the Roman Empire. This book is not...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 250 p. Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors. He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror’s death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt’s incorporation into the Roman Empire. This book is not...
Boston - Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 285 p. — (Studies in Philo of Alexandria and Mediterranean antiquity). — ISBN13: 978-0391042094; ISBN10: 0391042092. Eumenes of Cardia is a remarkable figure even by the standards of his age. He was a royal secretary turned successful general and a Cardian Greek in a period dominated by native-born Macedonians. The surviving...
Brepols, 2024. — 172 p. The Hellenistic world, with its many new cultural trends and traditions, has often proved a challenging period for scholars. In the wake of changing political, religious, cultural, economic, and social conceptions and practices, gender roles and notions also underwent significant change, leading to the emergence of strong female figures. Up to now,...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78570-584-7. Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — XVI, 361 pp.
The Seleukid empire, the principal successor-state of the empire of Alexander the Great, endured for over 200 years and stretched, at its peak, from the Mediterranean to the borders of India. This book provides a wide-ranging study of the empire's economy and the methods used by the Seleukid kings to monetise and manage it so as...
London – New York: Routledge, 2001. – 326 p. ISBN: 0-203-99592-9 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN: 0-415-23466-2 The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the...
Routledge, 2006. — 326 p. The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330–30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 450 p. This selection of essays by key names in the field of ancient economies in the 'Hellenistic' age (c. 330-30 BCE), provides essential reading for anyone interested in the evolutionary building blocks of economic history in the eastern Mediterranean and neighbouring regions. Case studies look at management and institutions; human mobility...
Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 2000. — 362 s. Bu kitabın amacı, Galatların Hellenistik Çağ Küçükasyası'nda oynadıkları tarihi rolün ortaya konulması ve konuya ilişkin antik kaynaklarla modern literatürde bulunan karmaşık bilgilerin sistemleştirilerek anlaşılır bir hale getirilmesidir. Bütün bunlar yazılırken, Galatların Hellen-Roma dünyası, özellikle Hellenistik krallıklarla...
Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2003. — 194 p. The reason for the paucity of publications on Egyptian queens when compared to kings is probably partly on account of the difficulty of finding relevant information. Personalities are virtually impossible to determine, the closest we can come is to consider the achievements of individuals and their presentation, which means that it...
Routledge, 2014. — 200 p. The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 625 p. The Hellenistic period began with the considerable expansion of the Greek world through the Macedonian conquest of the Persian empire and ended with Rome becoming the predominant political force in that world. This new and enlarged edition of Michel Austin's seminal work provides a panoramic view of this world through the medium of...
Genève : Fondation Hardt, 1976. — 332 p. A. B. Bosworth, Arrian and the Alexander Vulgate. Fritz Schachermeyr, Alexander und die unterworfenen Nationen. Robert D. Milns, The army of Alexander the Great. R. M. Errington, Alexander in the Hellenistic World. Gerhard Wirth, Alexander und Rome. Erkinger Schwarzenberg, The Portraiture of Alexander. E. Badian, Some Recent...
Introduction by Eugene M. Borza. — Routledge, 2013. — 560 p. Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced...
Routledge, 2013. — 557 p. Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced by lectures and reviews in his own...
Introduction by Eugene M. Borza. — Abingdon – New York: Routledge, 2012. — XX, 536 p. Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of...
Brill, 1976. — 286 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 4). This book can be recommended as a thorough and on the whole very accurate account of the main highly offices and the state's duties of those who administered the Ptolemaic Egyptian Empire. However, formuch of its history, the empire of the Ptolemies extended well beyond the confines of Egypt.Over the...
Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004. - 319 p. This book presents in translation 175 of the most revealing documents that have survived on stone and papyrus from the Hellenistic period. Presents over 150 sources in translation.Captures the political, social, economic and religious dynamism of the Hellenistic kingdoms and cities. Covers the entire Hellenistic world, with...
Buch und Welt, 1968. — 342 p. In wahrhaft königliches Leben läßt Peter Bamm zu neuem Glanz erstehen mit einem brillanten Text und mit großartigen Bildern. Es ist das Leben Alexanders des Großen, der, ein Zweiundzwanzigjähriger, auszog, ein Weltreich zu erobern, und elf Jahre später starb als Herr der Länder und Völker von Hellas bis zum Indus. Die ganze Geschichte dieses...
Probsthain and Company, 1920. — 355 p. Автор данной классической монографии подробно исследует влияние социальных и культурных традиций греко-македонского эллинизма на историю государств античной северной Индии. Автор рассматривает различные сферы культурной жизни древней Индии, в которых культура эллинизма так или иначе проявила себя, а именно: литературу, философию,...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 692 p.
This book is an account of the battles fought by Judas Maccabeus between 166 and 160 B.C. against the forces of the Seleucids during the revolt of the Jews against domination by the Seleucid empire. It reexamines the accepted assessments of Judas Maccabeus' activities and achievements and seeks to reconstruct the course of the military...
Cambridge University Press, 1976. — xii + 305 pp. — (Cambridge Classical Studies). This is a study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. In the first part of the book Dr Bar-Kochva discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of man-power, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the...
University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 272 p.
ISBN-10: 0226037363.
Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. — 170 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 187). The Pyrrhic War attracted a great deal of attention in antiquity as the first contest between the burgeoning Roman Empire and the powers of the Hellenistic world. While blame for the initiation of hostilities fell squarely upon the polity of the Tarentines, scholars have long been wary of accounts relating...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. — 170 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 187). The Pyrrhic War attracted a great deal of attention in antiquity as the first contest between the burgeoning Roman Empire and the powers of the Hellenistic world. While blame for the initiation of hostilities fell squarely upon the polity of the Tarentines, scholars have long been wary of accounts relating...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 428 p. This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC), and argues that Ptolemaic police officials enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels of society when crimes were committed. Throughout the nearly 300 years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 428 p. This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC), and argues that Ptolemaic police officials enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels of society when crimes were committed. Throughout the nearly 300 years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 288 p. This volume challenges preconceptions of Athenian politics and history. It sets out to demonstrate that the widely received view that Hellenistic Athens and her political leaders were radically different from their Classical counterparts is fundamentally flawed. Through a re-examination of the internal politics of Hellenistic Athens, both in...
Lerner Publishing Group, 2014. — 152 p. As legend has it, a young prince, Alexander, once subdued a wild stallion others couldn't control. Impressed by the youngster's bravery, his father, King Philip of Macedonia, predicted that Alexander would need to find a kingdom big enough for his ambitions. And when Alexander became king, that's exactly what he did. Alexander and his...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. — 168 p. Классический обзорный труд английского историка, построенный целиком на документальных источниках (в том числе, и на папирусной базе), масштабно освещает историю Эллинистического, Римского и Византийского Египта (как государства, а затем - провинции) в период с 332 года до н.э. по 642 год (момент захвата Египта арабами).
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 256 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these Diadochi (Successors) were consummate professionals who had learnt the art of war under...
CNRS Éditions, 2016. — 255 p. Pourquoi, contrairement aux habitudes des cités grecques et malgré les avertissements de Platon qui avait dénoncé les dangers d’établir une ville au bord de la mer, Alexandrie a-t-elle choisi le plus mauvais mouillage de la Méditerranée, bordé de marécages et de déserts ? Pourquoi un général de vingt-quatre ans, avant tout soucieux de « casser du...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. — 253 p. The Fourth Century. The Rhodian State. The Diadochi and the Great Siege. The Third Century. Philip V and the Appeal to Rome. Rome and the Second Macedonian War. The War with Antiochus III. The Lycian Revolt and a Bride for Perseus. The Third Macedonian War. The End of Rhodian Independence. The Long Twilight. Appendixes.
Arno Press, 1973. — 832 p. Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage est opus encyclopaedicum de imperio Alexandri Magni a philologo Germanico Helimuto Berve anno 1926 apud C. H. Beck editum. Darstellung. Der königlicher Hof "Aula regia" (Die königliche Familie; Die Lebensführung des Königs; Die Hoforganisation; Die Hofgesellschaft; Kultus und Religion) Das Heer...
In 2 vols. — E. Arnold, 1902. — V, 330+VIII, 333+31 pp.
Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA (15 February 1870, London – 18 October 1943, London[1]) was a versatile English philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world. He had an academic position at King's College London. Bevan was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews in 1922 and an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford in 1923....
Routledge, 2014. — 436 p. — (Routledge Revivals). First published in 1927, this title presents a well-regarded study of this intriguing – and often over-looked – period of Egyptian history for the general reader as well as the student of Hellenism. Edwyn Bevan describes his work as ‘an attempt to tell afresh the story of a great adventure, Greek rule in the land of the...
Routledge, 2014. — 435 p. First published in 1927, this title presents a well-regarded study of this intriguing – and often over-looked – period of Egyptian history for the general reader as well as the student of Hellenism. Edwyn Bevan describes his work as ‘an attempt to tell afresh the story of a great adventure, Greek rule in the land of the Pharaohs…the general outlines of...
Aarhus University Press, 1997. — 320 p. The contributors to this volume seek to decipher the Hellenistic citizens' views on vital elements of their society: the city, the ruler, religion, magic and astrology, everyday life and social relations (family and gender), morality, uses of the past, and the iconography of death. How did the changes in political and social ideas affect...
Aarhus University Press, 1996. — 147 p. Kingship was probably the most important institution in the Hellenistic world. The enormous territories conquered by Alexander the Great were not organized as democratic republics or a Greek type of "tyranny", but as monarchies inspired by the Macedonian kingdom and the Persian Empire. In fact, the idea of kingship was, so to speak,...
University of California Press, 1997. - 544 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society).
Called by Plutarch ''the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,'' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. Billows provides the...
Revised Edition. — University of California Press, 2023. — 544 p. — (Hellenistic Culture and Society). Called by Plutarch ''the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,'' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years....
The Overlook Press, 2018. — 304 p. In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names, and the works of Homer are regularly adapted into movies. The most important hero of all,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1994. — 240 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 22). Kings and Colonists deals with Macedonian imperialism in the 4th-2nd centuries BCE, the time of King Philip II and Alexander the Great, and of the dynasties of Alexander's successors, with special emphasis on western Asia. The first part of the book examines the origins of Macedonian...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 332 p. Hellenistic Egypt brings together for the first time the writings of the preeminent historian, papyrologist, and epigraphist Jean Bingen. These essays, first published by Bingen from 1970 to 1999, make a distinctive contribution to the historiography of Hellenistic Egypt, a period in ancient Egypt extending from its conquest by...
Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1991. - 297 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics).
The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum's landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only...
Durham University, 1999. — 186 p. The purpose of this thesis is to present a more balanced interpretation of Alexander’s worth as a general. Chapter One considers what shaped Alexander's campaign aims and strategies throughout his reign and how successfully he pursued these aims and strategies. Chapter Two deals with Alexander's major battles, focusing upon the battles of Issus...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — 540 p. From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now, in this vivid volume, readers can embrace the spirit of the classical...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 528 p. From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now, in this vivid volume, readers can embrace the spirit of the...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 176 p. An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the ages. John Boardman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greece, and his acclaimed books command a broad readership. In this book, he looks beyond the life...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 180 p. An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the ages. John Boardman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greece, and his acclaimed books command a broad readership. In this book, he looks beyond the...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 176 p. An illustrious scholar presents an elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great's representations in art and literature through the ages. John Boardman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greece, and his acclaimed books command a broad readership. In this book, he looks beyond the...
University of California Press, 2018. — 300 p. In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their...
University of California Press, 2018. — 300 p. In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their...
Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. — XIV, 300 p. In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. — 266 p. After having been for decades the province of a relatively small group of scholars, the Hellenistic polis has become central to the research agenda of Ancient historians more broadly. This development can be traced from the early nineties of the last century, and has picked up pace in a sustained fashion at the turn of the millennium. Recent...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 362 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 258). Das Phänomen der teils bürgerkriegsartigen Konflikte in griechischen Poleis, das die Forschung unter dem Begriff "Stasis" zusammenfasst, ist in der Vergangenheit vorwiegend mit Blick auf die Archaik und Klassik untersucht worden. Henning Börm zeigt hingegen, dass es auch nach Alexander dem Großen in den...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 347 p. In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent archaeological discoveries and an enhanced understanding...
Profile Books, 2004. — 312 p. An entertaining and enlightening book about Alexander the Great, whose leadership and strategic genius made him one of history's greatest empire builders, and who has since influenced and inspired a great number of people from different fields - business, politics, military. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) is arguably the greatest military...
Clarendon Press, 1980. — 397 p. This, the second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the ancient historian Arrian, deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyses Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity....
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996 - 218 p. In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between 329 and 325 BC, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with the peoples he conquered, and addresses the question of what it meant to be on the receiving end of the conquest, drawing a bleak picture of...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 307 p. This major study by a leading expert is dedicated to the thirty years after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. It deals with the emergence of the Successor monarchies and examines the factors which brought success and failure. Some of the central themes are the struggle for pre-eminence after Alexander's death, the fate of the...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 370 p. This book collects together ten contributions by leading experts in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and viewed as a whole represent a wide spectrum of methodology. This first English collection of...
University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 109 p. The extraordinary adaptability and durability of Greek culture in times of momentous change is revealed in this book, as G. W. Bowersock seeks to interpret Hellenism in a predominantly Christian world. In this effort he sheds new light on a late paganism that has often been seen as moribund and shows it to have been unexpectedly...
University of California Press, 1996. — 270 p. Egypt After the Pharaohs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, cultural, and intellectual ferment...
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 912 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-928614-0. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 474 p. Migration und Mobilität können als prägende Merkmale der Epoche des Hellenismus bezeichnet werden. Die Forschung zur hellenistischen Polis hat sich in jüngerer Zeit besonders diesen Phänomenen gewidmet und den Blick auf die Formen der Vernetzungen verschiedener Poleis gerichtet. Demgegenüber wurde bislang nicht systematisch untersucht, welche sozialen...
Salerno Editrice, 2018. — 168 p. Olimpiade fu tra le figure più carismatiche e influenti del mondo antico, ricoprì un ruolo fondamentale nella storia greca, in quanto moglie di Filippo il Macedone e madre di Alessandro Magno. Visse in un'età di espansione per la Macedonia del consorte; in cui l'Epiro di suo fratello, il Molosso, si proietta sull'occidente italiota, istituendo...
C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1977. — 499 p. Пропосографическая монография-справочник известного историка рассказывает о наиболее известных и знатных деятелях Спарты, живших там в период с 323 года до н.э. до момента завоевания всего Пелопонесса Аларихом (в 396 году н.э.).
Amor Fati Publications, 2017. — 698 p. Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was practiced in the Mediterranean region from approximately the first century BCE until the seventh century CE. It is the source of many of the modern traditions of astrology that still flourish around the world today, although it is only recently that many of the surviving...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 192 p. This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived empire within the broad...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 216 p. This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived empire within the broad...
Editions Gallimard, 2016. — 688 p. Est-il encore nécessaire et utile de parler d'Alexandre le Grand - dira-t-on peut-être - alors même que le rythme et l'ampleur des publications qui lui sont consacrées paraissent incontrôlables? André Aymard, l'un des plus perspicaces parmi les historiens de l'Antiquité, eut en 1953 une formule lapidaire : "Alexandre ne manque pas...
Annales Littéraires de l'Université de Besançon, 1982. — 518 p. C'est avec cette conception helléno- et européo-centriste que Pierre Briant a entrepris de rompre, de façon plus nette et plus systématique, qu'on ne l'avait fait jusqu'ici ; d'une part en reprenant l'analyse de divers textes grecs (la plupart relatif à Alexandre et aux dialogues, dont il est un spécialiste bien...
D.S. Brewer, 2018. — 319 p. How was Alexander the Great - controversial king, conqueror, explorer, and pupil of Aristotle, the subject of histories, romances, epic poetry, satires, and sermons in most of the languages of Europe and the Middle East - read, written and rewritten during the High Middle Ages? Aiming to illuminate not only the conqueror's history but also the...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. — 474 p. This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the "injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors," the author offers the reader a new, more balanced...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. — X, 196 p. — (University of California Publications in History 39). A monograph on one of the historians of Alexander, who also accompanied Alexander and was a pupil of Diogenes the Cynic.
The University of Alberta Press, 1979. — 205 p. Robert Buck's history examines the archaeological record, takes a fresh look at what the ancients said about the Boeotians and at the references of classicists of more recent times, retells the legends, and reconstructs the history of the region from the heroic Bronze Age to the Pelopponesian War.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 331 p. The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly controversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prominently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent discoveries, however, indicate that the period was not simply illustrative of the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 576 p. This book covers the political, diplomatic, and military history of the Aegean Greeks of the fourth century BC, raising new questions and delving into old disputes and controversies. It includes their power struggles, the Persian involvement in their affairs, and the ultimate Macedonian triumph over Greece. It deals with the political...
Brill, 1997. — 226 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 109). The Third Sacred War (356–346 BC) was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by Philip II of Macedon, and the Phocians. The war was caused by a large fine imposed in 357 BC on the Phocians by the Amphictyonic League (dominated at that moment by Thebes),...
Gorgias Press, 2003. — 682 p. A Syriac edition, with English translation, of a the folk-lore and legends connected to Alexander the Great. This ancient text represents a Greek text that is much older than any text that has been known before. Introduction. The Egyptian Origin of the Alexander Story. The Versions of the Fabulous History of Alexander. English Translation. Book I....
Routledge, 2008. — 682 p. Written by one of the most remarkable and erudite scholars of the early twentieth century, this book gives a unique and authoritative picture of one of the greatest men in ancient history. The object of this work is to present lovers of legend and history Alexander, translations of all Ethiopic accounts of that man in English and to add to this...
Elibron Classics, 2000. — 610 p. Сборник переводов и комментариев сказаний об Александре Македонском Псевдо-Каллисфена и других авторов, составленный сэром Э.А.Т. Уоллесом Баджем (1857 - 1934), известным английским египтологом, востоковедом и филологом, сотрудником Британского Музея, автором множества работ по истории Древнего Востока. Доп. информация: Репринт издания 1896 года,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 372 p. This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 372 p. This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and...
University of California Press, 1994. — 552 p. This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format of two essays followed by a...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 294 p. With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 294 p. With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 458 p. With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea – both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea – and the Nile, this book offers a new and original perspective on Ptolemaic power in a key period of Hellenistic history. Within the developing Aegean empire of the Ptolemies, the role of the navy is examined together with that...
English Universities Press, 1947. — 297 p. This book presents a fairly balanced account of Alexander with three chapters dealing with his legacy. Burn does not use footnotes but he quotes sources such as Arrian and Plutarch. It's a good introduction to a controversial subject.
Cambridge University Press, 1985. - 173 p. Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other major authors who are today well represented in English translations. But much equally valuable documentary material is buried in inscriptions and papyri and in the works of Greek and Roman grammarians and scholars, and...
Cambridge University Press, 1968. — 159 p. In "the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization," J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism. E. A. Barber's essay, "Alexandrian Literature," deals with the characteristic styles of the...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 387 p. Olynthus, an ancient city in northern Greece, was preserved in an exceptionally complete state after its abrupt sacking by Phillip II of Macedon in 348 B.C., and excavations in the 1920s and 1930s uncovered more than a hundred houses and their contents. In this book Nicholas Cahill analyzes the results of the excavations to reconstruct the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 368 p. In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 368 p. In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these...
University of California Press, 1990. - 214 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society).
To begin, Canfora is an excellent writer. As the back of this work promises, the prose reads as if from a novel. However, as soon as Canfora reaches the scholarship, there is about 30 pages where this spirit break downs, and he begins speaking about detailed scholarly considerations on sources...
Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014. — 534 p. De la fin du ive siècle au Ier siècle av. J.-C., le royaume séleucide fut, avec ses concurrents lagide et antigonide, une des principales puissances du monde hellénistique. Les conquêtes de Séleucos, le fondateur de la dynastie, lui permirent en effet de dominer au début du IIIe siècle un territoire qui, de la mer Égée à l'Asie...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 374 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 206). In the hellenistic period the Greek city-states are thought to have lost their independence and thereby also their possibilities of democratic government. This study shows that interstate relations among the Greek cities of coastal Asia Minor were active. Measures were taken to solve conflicts and to...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 368 p.
The careers of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great (III) were interlocked in innumerable ways: Philip II centralized ancient Macedonia, created an army of unprecedented skill and flexibility, came to dominate the Greek peninsula, and planned the invasion of the Persian Empire with a combined Graeco-Macedonian force, but it was...
Oxford ; New York (N.Y.) ; Auckland [etc] : Oxford University Press, 2013. — XII, 215 p. Abbreviations Timeline Genealogical Tables Map of eastern Mediterranean one Arsinoë’s Background and Youth: 318/14–300 two Arsinoë as the Wife of Lysimachus: ca . 300–281 three Arsinoë and Ptolemy Ceraunus: 281–279–76 four Arsinoë’s Return to Egypt and Marriage to Ptolemy II: 279–275 five...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 384 p. In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.C. to 168 B.C. Women were excluded from the exercise of power in most of the Hellenic world. However, Carney shows that the wives, mothers, and daughters of kings played important roles in...
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013. — xii, 215 p. : ill., map. — (Women in Antiquity). The life of Arsinoë II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. Her marriage to her full brother Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, was the first of the sibling marriages that became a dynastic feature of the Ptolemies. With...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2015. — 400 p. The Hellenistic courts and monarchies have in recent years become one of the most intensively studied areas of ancient history. Among the most influential pioneers in this process has been the American historian Elizabeth Carney. The present book collects for the first time in a single volume her most influential articles. Previously...
New York: Routledge, 2006. — 221 p. — (Women of the Ancient World). The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and conducts a close...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 169 p. — (BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 1943). On the specific level, this work is an enquiry into Karia (south-western Turkey) and the Hekatomnids in the 4th century BC, a Persian satrapy and its political strategies expressed in its state monuments. On the general level, this is a study of divine kingship, on the creation of a...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. — 385 p. The charismatic Alexander the Great of Macedon (356–323 B.C.E.) was one of the most successful military commanders in history, conquering Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and the lands beyond as far as Pakistan and India. Alexander has been, over the course of two millennia since his death at the age of thirty-two, the...
Overlook Press, 2004. An analysis of Alexander the Great's political and military accomplishments traces the path of his armies while charting the course of his influence, citing his impact on military tactics, scholarship, and politics throughout history while describing the many roles with which he has been credited.
University of California Press, 1997. — 323 p. The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wide-ranging exploration of current...
Pan Books, 2013. — 368 p. Paul Cartledge, one of the world’s foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 BC), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and founder of a new world order. Alexander's legacy has had a major impact on military tacticians, scholars, statesmen, adventurers, authors, and filmmakers....
London, Routledge, 2002. — 303 p. This book is one of a series on the States and Cities of Ancient Greece and subtitled “A Regional History 1300 - 362 B.C.”, which might suggest it is a synthesis of current knowledge on Spartan and Lakonian history with a reasoned discussion of areas in dispute. For better or worse, it is not that sort of book, but Cartledge’s attempt to create...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 463 p. Spanning the period from Alexander the Great's accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volume provides a vivid account of the innovative civilization of the Hellenistic world. It provides an authoritative overview of the often violent political history of the period, analyzes the...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander’s death, Antigonus, then governor of the obscure province of Phrygia,...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander’s death, Antigonus, then governor of the obscure province of Phrygia,...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander’s death, Antigonus, then governor of the obscure province of Phrygia,...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1473886643. Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest Greece, but his mother was forced to flee into exile to protect his life when he was a mere infant. Yet he prospered in troubled times and rose from a refugee to a king. Always an adventurer he was deeply involved in the cut-and-thrust campaigning, coups and...
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 250 p. This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on...
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 250 p. This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all...
Pen & Sword, 2012. — 272 p. This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 480 p. The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. His successors reorganized Persian lands to create a new empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean as far as present-day Afghanistan, while in Greece and Macedonia a fragile balance of power repeatedly dissolved into war. Then, from...
Profile Books, 2018. — 480 p. The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance of power...
Profile Books, 2018. — 480 p. The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance of power...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0631226079. In the 300 years between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the battle at Actium, continual warfare had a dramatic effect on Hellenistic society and culture. Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the many different ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. The volume shows how war was...
Charles River Editors Press, 2019. — 60 p. After he had finished off the Persian Empire, Alexander must have been glad to leave Persia and its adjoining provinces at his back. Alexander was planning to march onwards, into India, and had made overtures to the wild tribesmen that inhabited the region that is now Pakistan, but he had been abruptly refused. The chieftains of the...
Charles River Editors, 2016. — 54 p. Although the Seleucid Empire is less well known, Alexander’s general Seleucus was no less successful in “Hellenizing” Persia and parts of Asia Minor. The Greek influence is still readily visible in the region thousands of years later. Anthropologists have found that some of the earliest Buddha statues constructed in India bear an uncanny...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 239 p. At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, but aside from its role in the Greco-Persian Wars and its collapse at the hands of Alexander the Great, it has been mostly overlooked. When it has been studied, the historical sources have mostly been Greek, the very people the...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 74 p. In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for the young Macedonian king. One night, while...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 64 p. At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen, but aside from its role in the Greco-Persian Wars and its collapse at the hands of Alexander the Great, it has been mostly overlooked. When it has been studied, the historical sources have mostly been Greek, the very people the Persians...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 138 p. In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for the young Macedonian king. One night, while...
Besançon, 2015. — 460 p. Greek kings' domination in Central Asia and Western Antique India was effective from the IIIth Century BC till the beginning of Christian Era. The Greek kings of Central Asia image appears warlike, because their power was at the beginning and mainly a military one. We may suppose that, according to the example of the other Hellenistic sovereigns, these...
Cornell University Press, 2000. — 248 p. Few other civilizations rival Ancient Egypt in its power to capture the modern imagination, and Cleopatra VII, monarch at the end of the Ptolemaic period, has always been preeminent among its cast of characters. Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic empire, Cleopatra oversaw not only...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 190 p. This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which derives from that area of southern (Upper) Egypt known as the Apollonopolite (or Edfu) nome and is now preserved in Copenhagen. Dating from the late second century BC, this survey provides a...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 254 p. This volume focuses on questions of Greek and non-Greek cultural interaction in the eastern Mediterranean and the ancient Near East during a broadly defined Hellenistic period from 400 BCE–250 CE. While recent historiographical emphasis on the non-Greek cultures of the eastern Mediterranean is a critical methodological advancement, this...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 360 p. Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, the largest of the successor states of Alexander the Great. Exploring the question of how a man becomes a king, it specifically examines the role of usurpers in this particular kingdom - those who attempted...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 360 p. Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, the largest of the successor states of Alexander the Great. Exploring the question of how a man becomes a king, it specifically examines the role of usurpers in this particular kingdom - those who attempted to...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 360 p. Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, the largest of the successor states of Alexander the Great. Exploring the question of how a man becomes a king, it specifically examines the role of usurpers in this particular kingdom - those who attempted...
Routledge, 2024. — 230 p. This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a “second Sun”. Conceived by Alexander the Great and designed by Sostratus, the...
Routledge, 2024. — 230 p. This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a “second Sun”. Conceived by Alexander the Great and designed by Sostratus, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 695 p. This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts, created for purposes of taxation, to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 395 p. This book consists of two closely related parts. Volume I publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. Volume II uses these texts, created for purposes of taxation, to provide historical studies analysing fundamental aspects of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Brill, 1983. — 175 p. The Eponymous Priests in Alexandria. The Eponymous Priests in Ptolemais. Prosopographical Index. Index of Names. Greek-Demotic. Index of Νames. Demotic-Greek. Index of Names. Greek-Hieroglyphic. Index of Sources.
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 289 p. A mother of six, immensely wealthy and ambitious, Berenice II, daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artist ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Through she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of murder around her, she became one of the most...
University of California Press, 2006. - 503 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 46).
This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red...
University of California Press, 1996. — 474 p. This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference works in the field of Greek history...
University of California Press, 2013. — 440 p. This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen’s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical...
University of California Press, 2013. — 440 p. This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen’s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical...
Franz Steiner, 1978. — 95 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 30). The administration and organization behind the great colonization programs of the Seleucid kings is a fascinating but problematic area of Hellenistic history. While we know something about why the Seleucid kings were interested in founding new colonies, we know very little about how they were administered and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 314 p. Mit dem Leitmotiv der Außenbeziehungen spricht der Band Themen an, die in der globalisierten Welt von heute überragende Bedeutung haben. Aus dieser Erfahrung sind Impulse entstanden, die auch in der althistorischen Forschung das Bewusstsein für die Komplexität solcher Beziehungen geschärft haben. In der Antike verstanden gerade die...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 350 p. The third century BC was a particularly troubled period of ancient Greek history, when the Aegean sea became the main stage for power struggles between various royal circles and dynasties, including the Antigonids and the Ptolemies. This volume addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during this time by focusing on the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 350 p. The third century BC was a particularly troubled period of ancient Greek history, when the Aegean sea became the main stage for power struggles between various royal circles and dynasties, including the Antigonids and the Ptolemies. This volume addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during this time by focusing on the...
Economica, 2012. — 154 p. La bataille de Chéronée 338 BC est une mal aimée de l'histoire. Pourtant, elle est l'une des rares batailles pleinement décisives de l'Antiquité. Préparée par la Macédoine durant un quart de siècle, elle fut le choc de deux coalitions, de deux politiques et de deux manières différentes de faire la guerre. Ce fut aussi une des premières batailles à gros...
Peeters, 2019. — 512 p. — (Collection Latomus 360). Seleukos I (312-281) was the strongest among the Successors of Alexander the Great, and his territory extended as far as Thrace in the West and Pakistan in the East for over a century. His kingdom reached a new pinnacle under Antiochos III (223-187), who combined military vigour with political skill, but also bears...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 322 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 240). The study of royal women has been one of the most dynamic fields of inquiry into the Hellenistic world (ca. 336–30 BC) and has dramatically shifted our perceptions of gender, status, and influence in the ancient world. Amid numerous works on the Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Argeads, this volume is the first to...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 322 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 240). The study of royal women has been one of the most dynamic fields of inquiry into the Hellenistic world (ca. 336–30 BC) and has dramatically shifted our perceptions of gender, status, and influence in the ancient world. Amid numerous works on the Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Argeads, this volume is the first to...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 396 p. — (Seleukid Perspectives 1). Seleukid Perspectives explore the largest successor kingdom to Alexander the Great's empire. Seleukid kings established their power on the battlefield but did not rely on coercion alone. They constructed an ideal of kingship to render their authority morally and religiously acceptable. For this, they considered...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 296 p. The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great’s life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander’s Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient authors, as well as the audience, in the personal life of the most famous men and women of the...
Bellona, 1988. — 165 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Gaugamela, also called the Battle of Arbela, was the decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. In 331 BC Alexander's army of the Hellenic League met the Persian army of Darius III near Gaugamela, close to the modern city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though heavily outnumbered,...
Harrassowitz, 2023. — 348 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 31). The Seleucid Empire presided over one of the most pivotal and creative periods of Iranian history, a fact that has often been elided or misunderstood in both ancient and modern historiography. Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History examines the Seleucid Empire within the context of ancient Iranian...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 279 p. This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture in the United States of America. Daugherty provides a broad overview of the influence of the Egyptian queen by looking at her presence in film, novels, comics, cartoons, TV shows, music,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 384 p. — (Oxford Classical Monographs). — ISBN 978-0-19-886172-0, 978-0-19-260627-3. Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. — 489 p. — (Oriens et Occidens 39). Die Faszination an Alexander III. (dem Großen) ist nach wie vor ungebrochen, obwohl mittlerweile zahlreiche biographische Darstellungen vorliegen. Ein kaum berücksichtigter Aspekt seiner Herrschaft ist das von ihm geschaffene Imperium, das sich über Makedonien, Griechenland und einen Großteil des Achaimenidenreichs...
Institute for Balkan Studies, 1981. — 408 p. It is a great honor to present a edited volume commemorating the scholarly contributions of Charles F. Edson to the study of ancient hellenistic Macedonia. Professor Edson could not have foreseen at the outset of his career, that archaeological discoveries and a general quickening of interest in Macedonia's remote past would bring...
Philipp von Zabern, 2013. — 146 S. Der Pergamonaltar ist eines der größten antiken Kunstwerke. Sein Erbauer, König Eumenes II., dankte mit ihm den Göttern für die Wohltaten, die sie ihm erwiesen - immerhin überlebte er einige Anschläge auf sein Leben und war in zahlreiche Kriege verwickelt. Barbara Demandt erzählt in ihrem Buch das Leben dieses antiken Staatsmanns und zeigt,...
Philipp von Zabern, 2013. — 144 S. Der Pergamonaltar ist eines der größten antiken Kunstwerke. Sein Erbauer, König Eumenes II., dankte mit ihm den Göttern für die Wohltaten, die sie ihm erwiesen - immerhin überlebte er einige Anschläge auf sein Leben und war in zahlreiche Kriege verwickelt. Barbara Demandt erzählt in ihrem Buch das Leben dieses antiken Staatsmanns und zeigt,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 556 p. The aim of this work of reference is to provide a full year-by-year list of officials from archaic and classical Athens, along with, where appropriate, a short notice of their activities, including all the evidence pertaining to an individual's office in a particular year. It also contains all state decrees datable to any year or which...
Oxford University Press, 1918. — 128 p. Asia Minor is the country which, more than all others, recalls the highest development of Hellenic civilization. Its deeply indented coast formed a chaplet of Hellenic democracies which reached out into the interior and actually attacked the Persian civilization, upon which they imposed their own stamp. These democracies constituted the...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 377 p. This original historical study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between...
University of California Press, 1988. - 159 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 3).
This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context...
Routledge, 2019. — 256 p. Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 B.C. challenges the perception that the Macedonians' advent and continued presence in Corinth amounted to a loss of significance and autonomy. Immediately after Chaironeia, Philip II and his son Alexander III established close relations with Corinth and certain leading citizens on the basis of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. - 428 p. City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous changes in Greek cities during the imperial period ought to be attributed to Roman influence. The topic is crucial to our understanding of the...
Amber Books, 2015. — 288 p. In just 11 years, Alexander the Great’s armies marched 22,000 miles (35,000 km), subjugated Asia Minor, the Levant and Egypt, conquered the mighty Persian Empire, and invaded India. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world. And even after he died in 323 BC, aged 32 and undefeated in battle, his legacy...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 360 p. The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it’s army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to India, earning the sobriquet 'the Great'. Jean Charle Du Plessis has produced the most in...
University of California Press, 2006. - 370 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 48).
This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an exceptionally warlike and aggressive...
Springer, 2020. — 286 p. This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia. Unlike earlier studies that mainly focused on its political history, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, analysing aspects of the economic organization and institutions, and the political...
University of Nebraska Press, 1961. — 390 p. — ISBN-10 0317088505, ISBN-13 9780317088502. The victory of Alexander the Great at Gaugamela in 331 b.c. was his third and final defeat of the Persian armies of Dareios III. Dareios fled eastward across the plains of his dying empire and presently was murdered by his own desperate generals. His successor, the satrap Bessos, reigning...
Paris : Univers Poche, 2003. — 1041 p. — ISBN13: 978-2020603874. Le livre d'Édouard Will constitue en réalité bien plus qu'une histoire uniquement politique : on y trouve aussi bien une histoire des relations extérieures des royautés hellénistiques que l'analyse de l'activité économique, mais également une histoire des institutions des États grecs, ainsi qu'un cadre...
Philipp von Zabern, 2014. — 189 S. Die Epoche des Hellenismus ist vor allem durch eine Neuerung gekennzeichnet, die sich als ungemein folgenreich erweisen sollte: die Monarchien. Die Herrscher mussten nicht nur auf die Sicherung des Territoriums mit militärischen Mitteln bedacht sein, sondern widmeten sich auch der Dynastiebildung und pflegten verschiedene Formen der...
Philipp von Zabern, 2014. — 189 S. Die Epoche des Hellenismus ist vor allem durch eine Neuerung gekennzeichnet, die sich als ungemein folgenreich erweisen sollte: die Monarchien. Die Herrscher mussten nicht nur auf die Sicherung des Territoriums mit militärischen Mitteln bedacht sein, sondern widmeten sich auch der Dynastiebildung und pflegten verschiedene Formen der...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. — 312 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 196). Seit dem Erscheinen von A. R. Bellingers „The End of the Seleucids“ im Jahr 1949 ist kein Versuch mehr unternommen worden, die Geschichte der späten Seleukiden umfassend zu behandeln. Die nun vorliegende Studie macht deutlich, daß der Niedergang dieser einstigen hellenistischen Großmacht durch römische...
De Gruyter, 2005. — 124 p. In dieser Erst publikation der Stele Kairo TR 27/11/58/4 aus dem 19. Regierungsjahr des Königs Ptolemaios V. Epiphanes (186 v. Chr.) legt der Herausgeber eine neue Version des unter dem Namen Philensis II bekannten Dekrets vor, das sich am südlichen Teil der östlichen Außenwand des Geburtshauses in der Tempelanlage von Philä befindet. Es handelt sich...
USA, Princeton University Press, 1986. - 312 p. This book is a study in depth of the rise to power of Macedonia under the astute leadership of King Philip II, whose diplomatic adroitness and military skill paved the way for the career of his son and heir, Alexander the Great. J. R. Ellis has attempted to arrive at an impartial assessment of the process by which Philip brought...
University of Waterloo, 2017. — 90 p. This thesis seeks to prove that Seleukos IV Philopator was a competent ruler after the death of his father and throughout his peaceful 12 year reign. Seleukos was a king who led a successful reign and led the Seleukid Empire through a challenging time of recovery and rebuilding, undeserving of any neglect or negative reputation he receives...
University of California Press, 2020. — 208 p. The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again.Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are...
Wissenschaftl Buchgesell, 2006. — 137 p. Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über eine zentrale Epoche der europäischen Geschichte. Mit Philipp II. von Makedonien begann eine nicht nur für Griechenland einzigartige neue Zeit. Zielstrebig, als Feldherr, Staatsmann und Diplomat gleichermaßen überragend, legte Philipp die machtpolitischen Grundlagen für das Werk seines Sohnes....
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 192 p. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in hard campaigning which conquered half the known world, during which he was...
Durham University, 2002. — 221 p. Прекрасная, обстоятельная и подробная монография современного английского ученого, в которой на основании анализа множества источников автором выстроена и прописана четкая система всей структуры (состава) македонской армии Александра Великого в Азиатских походах. Помимо фалангитов, гипаспистов и гетайров автор уделяет особое внимание структуре...
University of Durham, 2009. — 268 p. Интересная и достаточно оригинальная монография известного исследователя античности Стефена Инглиша в этот раз структурировано разбирает все самостоятельные военные кампании и походы македонского царя Александра Великого (с 335 по 324 годы до н.э.). Автор старается четко и последовательно объяснить причины, ход, этапы и результаты каждой такой...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 234 p. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements). Most of his thirteen year reign as king of Macedon was spent in hard campaigning which conquered half the then-known world, during which...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 256 p. During his spectacular career of conquest Alexander the Great attacked many cities and fortresses, never failing to take them. Such operations occupied more of his time than his famous pitched battles and were at least as vital in securing his vast empire. Sieges provided some of the sternest tests for the Macedonian army, and it is perhaps telling...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2018. — 332 p. The Seleukids, the easternmost of the Greekspeaking dynasties which succeeded Alexander the Great, were long portrayed as weak, doomed to decline after the death of their first king, Seleukos. Yet they succeeded in ruling much of the Near and Middle East for over two centuries. In this book international scholars argue that in the...
Routledge, 2019. — 204 p. Before Alexander, the Near East was ruled by dynasts who could draw on the significant resources and power base of their homeland, but this was not the case for the Seleukids who never controlled their original homeland of Macedon. The Early Seleukids, their Gods and their Coins argues that rather than projecting an imperialistic Greek image of rule,...
Routledge, 2018. — 204 p. Before Alexander, the Near East was ruled by dynasts who could draw on the significant resources and power base of their homeland, but this was not the case for the Seleukids who never controlled their original homeland of Macedon. The Early Seleukids, their Gods and their Coins argues that rather than projecting an imperialistic Greek image of rule, the...
De Gruyter, 2007. — 500 p. Die griechische Biographie der hellenistischen Zeit stellt eine Gattung dar, die trotz der Bemühungen der letzten Jahrzehnte noch immer unzureichend erschlossen ist. Der Grund hierfür liegt vor allem im fragmentarischen Zustand der Werke. Der vorliegende Sammelband vereint die Vorträge eines internationalen Kongresses in Würzburg im Jahr 2006 zu...
University of California Press, 1990. — 334 p. In this single-volume history, R. Malcolm Errington provides a modern account of the political and social framework of Ancient Macedon. He places particular emphasis on the structure of the Macedonian state and its functioning in different stages of historical development from the sixth to the second century B.C. Errington's main...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 368 p. A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world. Offers a clearly organized narrative with particular emphasis on state and governmental structures Makes extensive use of inscriptions in translation to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 0-631-22537-4. Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander created but did not live to see. - Comprises 29 original essays by leading international...
Classical Press of Wales, 2010. — 372 p. Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the Romans. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. In this book, leading scholars in the field explore the...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. — 472 p. Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loyalty, Hellenistic royal families played roles in a...
Bristol Classical Press, 2011. — 247 p. Stoicism, which came to be closely identified with the Roman establishment, began as a radical doctrine. Indeed Zeno, the first Stoic (335-263Bc), embarrassed his Roman successors by advocating the abolition of money, private property and marriage. How did this change come about? Dr Erskine pieces together the evidence for early Stoic...
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press — 2012 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0806142553; ISBN13: 978-080614255. The Hellenistic world, ushered into existence in 323 b.c.e. through the conquests of Alexander the Great, stretched from India in the east to Sicily in the west. Within this vast region, society was multicultural, but the dominant culture was that of the Greeks (who called...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 240 p. The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great. Over the next century Pergamum was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. The state of Pergamum was incorporated into the Roman Empire between 133/129 BCE and it eventually became Rome's wealthiest...
Random House, 2019. — 496 p. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India - all before his untimely death at age thirty-three. Alexander believed that his empire would stop only when he reached the...
Routledge, 2024. — 370 p. Placing Alexander the Great’s leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital...
Akal, 1989. — 55 p. Introducción. Macedonia bajo Filipo II. El reino de Macedonia antes de Filipo II. Macedonia durante el siglo V. Macedonia en la primera mitad del siglo IV (399-359). Macedonia en época de Filipo II. La ascensión final de Macedonia y la privación general de la autonomía. La guerra contra Macedonia y la batalla de Queronea. La Liga de Corinto y la expedición a...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 400 p. The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the Hellenistic world. This book provides a systematic comparison of the roles of local elites and local populations in the construction, negotiation, and adaptation of political, economic, military and ideological power...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 400 p. The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the Hellenistic world. This book provides a systematic comparison of the roles of local elites and local populations in the construction, negotiation, and adaptation of political, economic, military and ideological power...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 474 p. This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 474 p. This is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 241 p. The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 208 p. Egypt's legendary queen Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) comes to vibrant life in this colorful, readable biography. Historian Michael Foss combines careful scholarship with exciting storytelling to capture Cleopatra's complex personality within the context of the turbulent world-power politics of her day. Cunning, ruthless, nervy, unquenchable...
Rowohlt, 2011. — 825 p. Dieses Buch gilt als die meistgelesene und bestgeschriebene Darstellung Alexanders des Großen und seiner Zeit. Ausgezeichnet mit mehreren Preisen für seine Erzählkunst, schildert Robin Lane Fox mitreißend das Leben eines Herrschers, der ganz in der Welt von Homers Heldenepen lebte und seinen eigenen Mythos schuf: Als neuer »Achill« unterwarf Alexander...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. — 274 p. Alexandria in Egypt is just one of many "Alexandrias"--ancient cities traditionally thought of as having been founded by Alexander the Great. In this book, one of the world's leading experts on the period unravels this fascinating tradition, explaining how it originated in a tendentious political pamphlet of the third century BC, which in...
Clarendon Press, 1972. — 2110 p. Firstly there was his great three-volume Ptolemaic Alexandria of 1972. I still wish that someone had had the sense to get him to change the title to Alexandria under the Ptolemies. ‘Alexandria’ has a resonance which ‘Ptolemaic’ decidedly does not. But Peter Fraser had no time for such frivolities. As for the book itself, massive and austere,...
Newton Compton Editori, 2014. — 257 p. Fino alle soglie dei tempi moderni, e in alcuni casi anche in seguito, qualunque generale che aspirasse a lasciare una traccia di sé nella Storia si è posto come modello Alessandro Magno. Il sovrano macedone fu un conquistatore impareggiabile, in grado di costituire in soli otto anni un impero che andava dalla Grecia all’odierno Pakistan;...
Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 1997. — 255 p. This volume brings together papers written by the members of the second research project of the Finnish Archaeological Institute at Athens. As the subject of our investigation we chose the history of Hellenistic Athens, with the special question “What is ‘Hellenistic’ in Hellenistic Athens?", but we soon realized...
Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958. — 323 p. In a brief and meteoric life (356-323 BC) the greatest of all conquerors redirected the course of world history. Alexander the Great accomplished this feat with a small army-no more than 40,000 men-and a constellation of bold, revolutionary ideas about the conduct of war and the nature of government. In a style both clear and witty, Fuller...
Routledge, 1997. — 96 p. Antigonus Gonatas assumed the title of King of Macedonia in 283 BC; he became the undisputed ruler of Macedonia in 276 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus won not only Macedonia, but also its people. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a well-educated man with a keen interest in philosophy. He gathered...
Washington: Potomac Books Inc., 2010. — 303 p. Philip II of Macedonia (382–336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic and tactical genius, and military...
London: Greenwood Press, 2007. — 305 p. Once warfare became established in ancient civilizations, it's hard to find any other social institution that developed as quickly. In less than a thousand years, humans brought forth the sword, sling, dagger, mace, bronze and copper weapons, and fortified towns. The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the...
University of California Press, 2003. - 382 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 40). "Gaca's book makes a valuable contribution to the history of sexual ethics in antiquity and will be indispensable reading for all scholars and students interested in that topic."--Virginia Burrus, Jrnl of Early Christian Stds "Gaca's ability to navigate confidently across both the Greek...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. — 345 p. In this comprehensive narrative, Robert E. Gaebel challenges conventional views of cavalry operations in the Greek world. Applying both military and historical perspectives, Gaebel shows that until the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., cavalry played a larger role than is commonly recognized. Gaebel traces the operational use of...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. — 200 p. Beginning with an extermination of the legal aspects of war in antiquity--the rules of warfare, rights of conquest, and peace treaties--Professor Yvon Garlan goes on to consider military manpower, dealing with such topics as military aristocracies, the soldier-citizen, mercenaries, slaves and barbarians in the army and the navy. A third...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 240 p. Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C. works from the premise that the traditional picture of hegemony and great men tells only a partial story. The volume's essays present exciting new perspectives based on recent archaeological work and the discovery of new material evidence.
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016. — 278 p. — (Convegno, Milano-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, settembre 2015). Recently, the history of Alexander and his Successors has attracted growing attention of modern academia. The Hellenistic world is not viewed anymore as a moment of decadence after the splendour of the Greek Classical age, enlightened by Athens' bright star, but as...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. — 182 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 171). Cassandro, figlio di Antipatro, che fu il primo re dei Macedoni estraneo alla dinastia di Alessandro, e da annoverare tra i protagonisti delle vicende del primo Ellenismo, alla cui conoscenza tanto hanno contribuito, negli ultimi decenni, molte scoperte archeologiche ed epigrafiche. Anche alla luce di tali...
Walker Books, 2011. — 240 p. He wandered over earth and oceans, experiencing great suffering, but his bravery triumphed, and his many daring exploits were beyond compare. At only twenty years of age and armed with a huge following, Alexander began a voyage that would carve a path for the exploration of lands greater than anyone had ever known. But his victories in the vast...
Verlag C.H. Beck, 2023. — 112 p. Der antike Historiker Diodor rühmt überschwänglich Alexanders Große Taten. Dank seiner Klugheit und Tapferkeit überträfe er an Größe die Leistungen aller anderen Könige, von denen man wisse. In nur zwölf Jahren habe er nicht wenig von Europa und fast ganz Asien unterworfen und damit zu Recht weithin reichenden Ruhm erworben, der ihn den alten...
München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008. — 342 S. Darstellung Einleitung: Hellenismus - Begriff und Epoche Alexander der Große Das Zeitalter der Diadochen (323-272 v. Chr.) Staat, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft Aspekte der hellenistischen Kultur Hellenistische Politik Grundprobleme und Tendenzen der Forschung Hellenismus - Begriff und Epoche Alexander der Große Das Zeitalter der...
University of Glasgow, 2004. — 214 p. Данная научная монография посвящена исследованию формирования и эволюции внешней политики древнего Македонского Царства в период с 513 по 346 годы до н.э. Основной акцент в своей работе автор делает на эпохе царствования македонского царя Филиппа II (359-336 до н.э.), когда внешняя политика и экспансия Македонии постепенно из местечковой и...
University of Oxford, 2015. — 519 p. The history of Hellenistic Bactria (northern Afghanistan, and areas of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) is particularly obscure and its reconstruction contentious. Unlike other Hellenistic kingdoms very little evidence survives from literary sources and inscriptions; the best primary source is the large quantity of coins issued under the...
Basic Books, 2020. — 608 p. 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...
Brill, 1988. — 195 p. — (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, 5). This study takes as its starting point a complaint made by the late Claire Préaux with regard to Ptolemaic Egypt, that one does not know how to tell Greeks and Egyptians asunder. The author tries to find an answer to this question by making use of the concept of ethnicity developed in modern...
Brill, 1997. — 845 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 172; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 172). The Seleukid kingdom was one of the greatest states of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to India; it is also one of the least known. This reference work lists all the people whose names are known who lived in that kingdom, classifying them...
Brill, 1997. — 832 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 172; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 172). The Seleukid kingdom was one of the greatest states of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to India; it is also one of the least known. This reference work lists all the people whose names are known who lived in that kingdom, classifying them...
Leiden: Brill, 1999. — XII, 339 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplementum 202). This aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians. It is the people of any society who are its constituents, and only when we know who they were and what they did can that society be properly investigated. By accumulating a list...
London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN: 082644394X, 1847251889. In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC. Alexander the Great's empire stretched across three continents and his achievements changed the nature of the ancient world. But for all his military...
Pen & Sword Military, 2019. — 288 p. Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. After Alexander’s death he crushed a Greek uprising and became regent of the co-kings, Alexander’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 288 p. Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. After Alexander’s death he crushed a Greek uprising and became regent of the co-kings, Alexander’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 288 p. Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. After Alexander’s death he crushed a Greek uprising and became regent of the co-kings, Alexander’s...
Routledge, 2016. — 272 p. Diplomacy is a neglected aspect of Hellenistic history, despite the fact that war and peace were the major preoccupations of the rulers of the kingdoms of the time. It becomes clear that it is possible to discern a set of accepted practices which were generally followed by the kings from the time of Alexander to the approach of Rome. The republican...
Clarendon Press, 1991. — 236 p. The cultural history of the Phoenicians seems to have stopped short at the time of Alexander the Great's destruction of the city of Tyre, yet in truth, these people survived the destruction of their cities and the confiscation of their lands to enjoy long periods of peace and prosperity. This study pursues the themes of trade and economic history...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 272 p. Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of Macedon, the political running was made by...
Clarendon Press, 1990. — 280 p. This book is the first detailed study of the foundation, history, government, growth and decline of the cities founded in Syria by Seleukos I in 301BC shortly after the time of Alexander the Great. It throws new light on an important period in ancient history. In particular, Dr Grainger concentrates on the relationship between the kings and the...
Clarendon Press, 1990. — 280 p. This book is the first detailed study of the foundation, history, government, growth and decline of the cities founded in Syria by Seleukos I in 301 BC shortly after the time of Alexander the Great. It throws new light on an important period in ancient history. In particular, Dr Grainger concentrates on the relationship between the kings and the...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 240 p. The death of Ptolemy VI brought his younger brother Ptolemy VIII to the kingship. This was the start of a prolonged, if intermittent, turbulent period of family strife, punctuated by rebellions, plots and wars. One king, Ptolemy VII, was murdered, Ptolemy VIII’s two simultaneous wives plotted and rebelled, and when he died one of these,...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 240 p. The death of Ptolemy VI brought his younger brother Ptolemy VIII to the kingship. This was the start of a prolonged, if intermittent, turbulent period of family strife, punctuated by rebellions, plots and wars. One king, Ptolemy VII, was murdered, Ptolemy VIII’s two simultaneous wives plotted and rebelled, and when he died one of these,...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 240 p. The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt in the West and the Parthians in the East. By the...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 240 p. The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the religiously-inspired insurrection of the Jewish Maccabees, civil war and external invasion from Egypt in the West and the Parthians in the East. By the...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 256 p. The eastern Celtic tribes, known to the Greeks as Galatians, exploited the waning of Macedonian power after Alexander the Great’s death to launch increasingly ambitious raids and expeditions into the Balkans. In 279 BC they launched a major invasion, defeating and beheading the Macedonian king, Ptolemy Keraunos, before sacking the Greeks'...
Leiden: Brill, 1999. — XIV, 585 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplementum 200). A standard history of the Aetolian league which played an important role in history of Hellenistic age. The Aitolians have had a bad press, regarded as pirates and brigands, and their state as a pirate state built on terrorist tactics. This book treats them as what they really were, a normal Hellenistic state....
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 256 p. The Second part of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy III, Ptolemy IV, Ptolemy V and Ptolemy VI. The second volume of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy II, III, IV, V and VI, who between them reigned for a century. Ptolemy III's rule brought the acquisition of Cyrenaica (through marriage) and...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 320 p. In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was reconquered by the Persian Empire in the 340s. This is essential background for Ptolemaic...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 320 p. In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was reconquered by the Persian Empire in the 340s. This is essential background for Ptolemaic...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 320 p. — ISBN-13 9781399090223. — ISBN-10 1399090224. In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was reconquered by the Persian Empire in the 340s....
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 256 p. The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's death and the rise of Rome. It was ruled for all that time by a succession of able kings, but broke down twice, before eventually succumbing to dynastic rivalries, and simultaneous external invasions and internal grasps for independence. The first king,...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 256 p. The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's death and the rise of Rome. It was ruled for all that time by a succession of able kings, but broke down twice, before eventually succumbing to dynastic rivalries, and simultaneous external invasions and internal grasps for independence. The first king,...
Brill, 2002. — 388 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 239). This is the first detailed study of the collision of the two greatest powers of the Hellenistic world. The Roman Republic, victorious over Carthage and Macedon, met the Seleukid kingdom, which had crushed Ptolemaic Egypt. The preliminary diplomatic sparring was complicated by Rome's attempts to control Greece, and by the...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 240 p. The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty,...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 240 p. The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty,...
BRILL, 2010. — XVIII+448 p. — Mnemosyne, Supplements 320; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 320). — ISBN 9789004180505 This book examines the causes and courses of the series of wars in the Hellenistic period fought between the kingdom of the Seleukids and the Ptolemies over possession of Syria. This is a subject always mentioned by...
Bristol Classical Press, 2011. — 128 p. This book presents an interesting overview of some of the main archaeological findings in Mesopotamian cities and in what is now a large part of western Iran. The surveys cover some seven sites, including Babylon, Ctesiphon-Seleucia and Uruk, but also Susa and the vassal state of Elymais, Charax Spasinou (near modern Bassorah) and the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 210 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 1). — ISBN10: 9004207104 ISBN13: 9789004207103. The present study, with its emphasis on identities grounded in cult, focuses rather on what Hall terms secondary indicia of ethnicity, that class of attributes which may very well attend upon an ethnic group, but need not, and which may be present...
Cedar Forge Press, 2017. — 850 p. A unique 'backstory' of Alexander and his successors: the biased historians, deceits, wars, generals, and the tale of the literature that preserved them. 'Babylon, mid-June 323 BCE, the gateway of the gods; prostrated in the Summer Palace of Nebuchadrezzar II on the east bank of the Euphrates, wracked by fever and having barely survived another...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 368 p. Alexander the Great conquered the largest empire the world had ever seen while still in his twenties but fell fatally ill in Babylon before reaching 33 years old. His wife Roxanne was still pregnant with what would be his only legitimate son, so there was no clear-cut heir. The surviving accounts of his dying days differ on crucial detail, with the...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 352 р. Alexander the Great conquered the largest empire the world had ever seen while still in his twenties but fell fatally ill in Babylon before reaching 33 years old. His wife Roxanne was still pregnant with what would be his only legitimate son, so there was no clear-cut heir. The surviving accounts of his dying days differ on crucial detail,...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 359 p. In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed to death; it was a world-shaking event that heralded in the reign of his son, Alexander the...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 350 p. In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed to death; it was a world-shaking event that heralded in the reign of his son, Alexander...
University of California Press, 2013. — 672 p. Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a...
University of California Press, 2013. - 617 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 11).
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the...
London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. - 234 p. A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome. The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritance. This era saw many important...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. — 985 p. — ISBN13: 978-0520083493. The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have...
University of California Press, 1990. — 970 p. The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting...
University of California Press, 1990. — 1000 p. — (Hellenistic culture and society 1). The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics....
University of California Press, 1993. — 283 p. In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A distrust of all ideologies has altered...
Random House Publishing Group, 2008. — 239 p. The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging study covers the prevalent themes and events of those centuries: the Hellenization, by Alexander’s conquests, of an immense swath of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 359 p. Die komplexe Geschichte der hellenistischen Staatenwelt ist in ihren größeren Zusammenhängen einzig durch das umfangreicher erhaltene Werk des arkadischen Politikers und Geschichtsschreibers Polybios fassbar. Mit seinen Historien verfasste er Universalgeschichte, die auf die politischen und militärischen Ereignisse konzentriert ist, aber...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. — 409 p. — (Historia: Einzelschriften 199). Die antike Demokratie ist bislang vor allem mit Bezug auf das klassische Griechenland untersucht worden. Diese Arbeit analysiert nun für die nachfolgende hellenistische Epoche anhand der Stadtstaaten Athen, Kos, Milet und Rhodos sowohl die zentralen politischen Institutionen als auch die Form der jeweiligen...
CUP Archive, 1935. — 340 p. This book provides a detailed history of the employment of mercenaries in the Hellenistic period. Griffith discusses how and why mercenaries were used after the death of Alexander the Great by the Seleucids, Ptolemies, the Greek League and other powers active before the rise of Rome, and includes a section contrasting the pay and maintenance of...
University of California Press, 1984. — 872 p. In this revisionist two-volumes study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Erich Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices...
Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. — 381 p. Cet ouvrage, qui réunit des spécialistes des cités grecques et du royaume ptolémaïque, se propose d’interroger la notion d’identité dans les mondes grecs par le biais des processus d’identification, processus qui conduisent conjointement à singulariser un individu et à le différencier d’un autre pour pouvoir le reconnaître. Il procède de...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 213 p. Transformation von Herrschaft über historisch-politisch unterschiedlich strukturierte geographische Räume ist eines der großen Themen der Geschichte verstanden als Wissen von Wandel in der Vergangenheit. Mit der makedonisch-hellenischen Expansion in den Raum des Achämenidenreiches um 330 v. Chr. und der römischen Expansion in den...
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1969. — 301 p. Based on Ziegler's revised text, this book provides a detailed commentary on Plutarch's "Life of Alexander". It devotes most of its space to historical matters, comparing Plutarch's narrative at every point with the sources. In addition, it adds a fresh introduction and select bibliographies on Plutarch and on Alexander the Great himself.
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 432 p. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian’s own experience as a military commander gave him unique insights into the life of the world’s greatest conqueror. He tells of Alexander’s violent suppression of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 217 p. Our knowledge of Alexander the Great is derived from the widely varying accounts of five authors who wrote three and more centuries after his death. The value of each account can be determined in detail only by discovering the source from which it drew, section by section, whether from a contemporary document, a memoir by a companion...
Alianza Editorial, 2012. — 424 p. La obra no es una biografía de Alejandro, no es un recorrido por sus hechos, no es un análisis de sus acciones bélicas (aunque inevitablemente sí sea todo eso). Hammond no trata de encumbrar a Alejandro como militar, aunque el análisis de la campaña en el norte de Macedonia, de las grandes batallas en Asia o de su campaña en la India, dejan...
Bristol Classical Press, 1980. — 345 p. Within the span of thirteen years, Alexander the Great changed the face of the world more decisively and with more long-lasting effects than any other statesman has ever done. It is therefore no surprise that there has been, and still is, so much debate about both his personality and his achievement. The great merit of this biography is...
John Hopkins University Press, 1994. — 235 p. Philip of Macedon was one of the extraordinary figures of antiquity. Inheriting a kingdom near collapse, he left to his son Alexander the strongest state in Eastern Europe. He developed new military technology and made Macedonia the greatest power in the Western world. He created a united, multiracial kingdom based on liberal...
Clarendon Press, 1989. — 435 p. In 338 B.C. Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece. He was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests during the next twelve years reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, thus creating the Hellenistic world. Based on his earlier work, a first-ever comprehensive history of...
Oxford University Press, 1979. — 755 p. Examines archaeological evidence to illuminate the origins, evolution, and achievements of Macedonia. For those who has interest in the history of ancient kingdom of Macedon, Hammond`s trilogy is the best choice. This volume mainly includes the rules of ancient Macedonian kings from Alexander I to Philip II and gives plenty of details on...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 654 p. Examines archaeological evidence to illuminate the origins, evolution, and achievements of Macedonia. The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided...
Aarhus University Press, 2020. — 182 p. When the vast empire of Alexander the Great broke up, the Macedonian general Seleucus secured the lion's share for himself and went on to become the longest-lived of Alexander's successors. His tactical skills and his military innovations - including his use of war elephants on a scale never seen before in the West - earned him the...
The Great Courses/The Teaching Company, 2010. — 203 p. Alexander the Great - one of the most renowned figures in antiquity - has inspired everything from medieval romances to blockbuster movies, and military leaders from Julius Caesar to Napoleon to the U.S. general Norman Schwarzkopf. But who was this great king of Macedon? And why is he so legendary? Go beyond the myth and...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 240 p. Nearly two centuries have passed since K. O. Müller published the first "scientific" study "on the habitat, the origin and the early history of the Macedonian people". An ever growing number of publications appearing each year has rendered urgent a critical appraisal of this exuberant production, the more so that many aspects of ancient Macedonia...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 240 p. Nearly two centuries have passed since K. O. Müller published the first "scientific" study "on the habitat, the origin and the early history of the Macedonian people". An ever growing number of publications appearing each year has rendered urgent a critical appraisal of this exuberant production, the more so that many aspects of ancient Macedonia...
Athens, 1996. — 558 p. Фундаментальный труд греческого историка посвящен капитальному исследованию эволюции развития государственных гражданских институтов управления и территориальному (областному) устройству древнего Македонского Царства в V-II веках до н.э. (непосредственно на территории именно древней Македонии).
Centre de recherches de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, 2014. — 300 p. Les documents épigraphiques (corpus) publiés dans le volume précédent donnent lieu à une étude approfondie et une exploitation exhaustive de leur riche matériel onomastique et prosopographique, qui permet de suivre l'évolution démographique de la région et d'éclairer les différentes phases de son histoire...
Diffusion De Boccard, 1996. — 236 p. Фундаментальный труд греческого историка посвящен капитальному исследованию эволюции развития государственных гражданских институтов управления и территориальному (областному) устройству древнего Македонского Царства в V-II веках до н.э. (непосредственно на территории именно древней Македонии). Второй том этой работы содержит описания и...
Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on "The Ancient Near East between Classical and Ancient Oriental Traditions", Hatfield College, Durham 7th–9th July 2010. — Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013. — 332 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 5). — ISBN: 978-3-447-06728. Berossos was a priest and historian from Babylon. A contemporary of Alexander the Great and the first Seleucid kings,...
University of Toronto Press, 2000. — 244 p. Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC. The queens of that dynasty started as subordinates of the kings but ended as their superiors. Exactly when and how this change occurred has proven problematic for modern scholars. R.A. Hazzard argues that this change was put...
Malden (USA), Oxford (UK), Victoria (Australia): Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006. – 418 p. ISBN13: 978-1-4051-1210-9 (hard cover: alk. paper) ISBN10: 1-4051-1210-7 (hard cover: alk. paper) This book contains concise biographies of over 800 individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander. Covers significant figures, ranging from leading...
Frank & Timme, 2020. — 541 p. This is the first lexicon focusing exclusively on Argead Makedonia. Spanning from the mythical foundation of the realm to the death of the last Argead ruler, Alexander IV, 247 entries written by 44 international scholars provide information on central aspects of the politics, culture, society, and economy of Argead Makedonia, on the ancient...
Frank and Timme, 2020. — 541 p. This is the first lexicon focusing exclusively on Argead Makedonia. Spanning from the mythical foundation of the realm to the death of the last Argead ruler, Alexander IV, 247 entries written by 44 international scholars provide information on central aspects of the politics, culture, society, and economy of Argead Makedonia, on the ancient...
John Wiley and Sons, 2009. — 392 p. Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures. Written by leading experts in the field. Looks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality,...
Oxford, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004. - 342 p. At his death in 323 BC, Alexander the Great ruled an empire stretching from the Balkans to India, yet the best accounts we have of his life were written hundreds of years after his death. This book presents new translations of the most important ancient writings on Alexander's life and legacy. Substantial extracts from Greek and...
New York: Routledge, 2016. — 372 p. 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...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 398 p. 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,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated. The extent and form of the resistance of the populations he confronted varied according to their previous relationships with either the Macedonian invaders or their own...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated. The extent and form of the resistance of the populations he confronted varied according to their previous relationships with either the Macedonian invaders or their own...
University of British Columbia, 1978. — 293 p. Одна из первых научных монографий известного ученого (и исследователя личности и эпохи македонского царя Александра Великого) Вальдемара Хекеля, написанная им еще в 1973 году, посвящена глубокому исследованию биографий и военных карьер четырех самых ближайших сподвижников и талантливых полководцев (маршалов) Александра Македонского:...
Cambridge Press, 2008. - 218 p. In this book, Waldemar Heckel provides a revisionist overview of the conquests of Alexander the Great. Emphasizing the aims and impact of his military expeditions, the political consequences of military action, and the use of propaganda, both for motivation and justification, his underlying premise is that the basic goals of conquest and the keys to...
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1988. — 127 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 56). The "Last Days and Testament of Alexander the Great", in its Greek and Latin versions, is, in my opinion, what survives of a political pamphlet written during the regency of Polyperchon as propaganda against the Antigonos and Kassandros. It was written by someone familiar with the situation in Asia...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 96 p. — (Osprey guide to...) The age of Alexander and his conquest of the Persian or 'Achaemenid' Empire, which had existed for over two centuries, represents a watershed in the history of the world. This book offers a fascinating insight into the achievements of one of the greatest generals ever known. Alexander's conquests are of profound significance....
USA, Blackwell Publishing, 2006. - 388 p. This book contains concise biographies of over 800 individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander. Covers significant figures, ranging from leading commanders in Alexander's army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign. The only complete...
Foreword by Peter G. Tsouras — Greenhill Books, 2021. — 576 p. A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in Alexander’s army to the nobles of the Persian Empire, and the many other individuals he encountered throughout his life...
Foreword by Peter G. Tsouras — Greenhill Books, 2021. — 576 p. A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in Alexander’s army to the nobles of the Persian Empire, and the many other individuals he encountered throughout his life...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 576 p. A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in Alexander’s army to the nobles of the Persian Empire, and the many other individuals he encountered throughout his life and reign, these complete and...
Scribner's Sons, 1897. — 339 p. This is a classical deeply research work, consisted the biographies of the two greatest heroes and kings of the Ancient Macedon - Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. Alexander came, then, in this April of 334 BC, to the shore of the Dardanelles, with an ambition to possess all Persia as already he possessed all Greece. He was captain of...
Aarhus University Press, 2009. — 375 p. Mithridates VI Eupator, the last king of Pontos, was undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in the late Hellenistic period. Throughout his long reign (120-63 BC), the political and cultural landscape of Asia Minor and the Black Sea area was reshaped along new lines. The authors present new archaeological research and new...
Routledge, 2000. — 373 p. This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the tragic deaths of Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC. The skilful integration of material from a vast array of sources allows the reader to trace the political and...
University of California Press, 2003. - 226 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 44). To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance--how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies--is the...
University of California Press, 2012. - 241 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 47).
The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Frank L. Holt vividly recounts Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria, situating in a broader...
University of California Press, 2012. — 241 p. — (Hellenistic culture and society 47).
The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Frank L. Holt vividly recounts Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria, situating in a broader...
University of California Press, 2012. - 376 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 53).
Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping...
University of California Press, 2012. - 376 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 53).
Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping...
Brill, 1988. — 125 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 104). The creation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia was one of the most famous and far-reaching achievements of Alexander the Great. Yet the process was shaped as much by the political traditions of the natives as by the cultural traditions of the newcomers. This book examines this key historical clash from both sides, and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 295 p. War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, sieges, massacres, annexations, and mass deportations all redistributed property with dramatic consequences for kings and commoners alike. No conqueror ever captured more people or property in so short a lifetime...
University of California Press, 1999. — 248 p. — (Hellenistic culture and society 32). Of all the frontiers of the ancient world, none has endured so long in the poetic imagination as the kingdom of Bactria. In those distant haunts of the Hindu Kush, nearly three thousand miles east of Athens, the early Greeks imagined a never-never land untouched by civilization. Rivers of...
University of California Press, 2014. — 568 p. In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible - the ancient Near East - came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews...
University of California Press, 2014. — 568 p. In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible - the ancient Near East - came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews...
University of California Press, 2014. — 568 p. In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible - the ancient Near East - came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. — 339 p. — (Oriens et Occidens - Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben 41). From Mesopotamia to Central Asia, regions in central Eurasia in the Hellenistic period are often viewed, presented, and imbued with meaning as 'places in between' - cultural melting pots, resulting from a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures after Alexander...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 208 p. As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts of self-creation in a variety of forms, whether literary, dynastic, artistic, or political. His work on...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 214 p. Greece, Macedon and Persia contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography of warfare, politics and power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions, written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiary perspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conflict at the heart of...
Classical Press of Wales, 2018. — 316 p. Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection, by an international team of scholars, cast a wider net. They show how classical Greek, hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted, sometimes misinterpreted, information on ancient...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 618 p. At around 4.00 pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king’s deathbed were his highest subordinates: young, experienced and charismatic commanders – some of the greatest military minds of antiquity –...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 618 p. At around 4.00 pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king’s deathbed were his highest subordinates: young, experienced and charismatic commanders – some of the greatest military minds of antiquity –...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 618 p. At around 4.00 pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king’s deathbed were his highest subordinates: young, experienced and charismatic commanders – some of the greatest military minds of antiquity –...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 618 p. At around 4.00 pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king’s deathbed were his highest subordinates: young, experienced and charismatic commanders – some of the greatest military minds of antiquity –...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 332 p. Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action. The fifteen preserved assembly speeches of the mid-fourth century BC thus provide an...
C.H.Beck, 2001. — 706 S. — ISBN13: 978-3406471544. Вернер Хусс признан во всем мире как один из специалистов по истории эллинизма. В этой книге он представляет синтез своих исследований по истории Египта в эллинистический период (с 332/331-го по 30-е годы до нашей эры). Он предлагает подробное, легко понятное изображение эпохи, которая началась с завоевания страны Александром...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. — (Historia Einzelschriften 85). In der Geschichte vieler Staaten, in denen die Faktoren „Macht“ und „Kult“ in institutioneller Hinsicht nicht zusammengefallen sind, haben sich zwischen diesen beiden Faktoren Beziehungen entwickelt, die weitreichende Folgen gehabt haben. Nach ägyptischer Vorstellung waren beide Größen „theoretisch“ letztlich...
C.H. Beck, 2011. — 386 p. — (Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 104). Ägypten war unter den antiken Ländern das Land, das die differenzierteste Verwaltung besaß. Die Gründe lagen zu einem beträchtlichen Teil in der physischen Beschaffenheit des Landes, die "immer schon" die Schaffung und Erhaltung einer Reihe von ordnenden Kompetenzen erzwungen hatte. Sie lagen aber...
C.H. Beck, 2012. — 155 p. — (Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung Heft 105). Ägypten galt als ein reiches Land, Ägypten war ein reiches Land. Für die Befriedigung der Grundbedürfnisse der Bevölkerung sorgte der Nil, „der große, vielnährende Nil“, der sich zwischen der Libyschen und der Arabischen Wüste hindurchzwängte, um dann im Delta eine größere Anbaufläche zu schaffen....
Routledge: 2001 - 432 p. ISBN10: 041523848X ISBN13: 9780415238489
Product Description: We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is...
Routledge, 2001. — 432 p. We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100...
Brill, 2012. — 204 p. — (Studies in Persian Cultural History 3). Alexander the Great’s military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire included a propaganda campaign to convince the Iranians his kingship was compatible with their religious and cultural norms. This campaign proved so successful that the overt display of Alexander’s Iranian and Zoroastrian preferences...
Duke University, 2012. — 489 p. This work examines the history of the military institutions of the Hellenistic kingdoms. The kingdoms emerged after years of war-fighting, and the capacity to wage war remained central to state formation in the Hellenistic Age (323-31 B.C.). The creation of institutions and recruitment of populations sufficient to field large armies took a great...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 320 p. A study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds. The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. — 345 p. — (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture). Who was Cleopatra? Who is Cleopatra? Viewed as both goddess and monster even in her own lifetime, she has become through the ages saint and sinner, heroine and victim, femme fatale and star-crossed lover, black and white. A protean figure, Cleopatra defies categorization. Cleopatra’s life story,...
Routledge, 2014. — 484 p. Alexander the Great could then turn his forces against the Great King. In ten years, the Persian Empire was overthrown and replaced by a Graeco-Macedonian Empire, which soon split up into great monarchical states. Hellenism spread over all the East. The idea of an empire, that is, of a single power extending its rule to subject peoples of different...
University of California Press, 1996. - 557 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society).
In one of the most important contributions to the study of Roman imperialism to appear in recent years, Robert Kallet-Marx argues for a less simplistic, more fluid understanding of the evolution of Roman power in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor. He distinguishes between hegemonythe ability...
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 314 p. Since 500 BC the mainland Greeks had been threatened by the Achaemenid Persian Empire. They had suffered major invasions but subsequent attempts to take the offensive had been thwarted. With Alexander the Great’s invasion the rules changed. In Macedonia a new model army had been developed, taking the traditional hoplite heavy infantry in a new...
Brill | Schöningh, 2021. — 552 p. — (Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia 45). Eine umfassende Studie der auf Papyrus und Stein überlieferten Gesetzeserlasse, Befehlsbriefe und amtlichen Mitteilungen und Weisungen der Herrscher des ptolemäischen Ägypten (305–30 v. Chr.). Die Studie bespricht die ptolemäische Partikulargesetzgebung zu Militäradministration,...
Autonomous University of Barcelona Press, 2018. — 144 p. — (Special Number dedicated to the memory of A. B. Bosworth). - Editorial. Borja Antela. - Professor Brian Bosworth. A brief biography. - Alexander, Agathoi Daimones, Argives and Armenians. Christian Djurslev, Daniel Ogden. - Alexander the Great, the royal throne and the funerary thrones of Macedonia. Olga Palagia. -...
Finnish Oriental Society, 1997. — 439 p. — (Studia Orientalia 83). According to the definition accepted in the present volume, Hellenism is the mixed culture of the post-Alexander era, in which Greek civilization and the Greek (as well as Macedonian) people participated, but not alone. For instance in Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia, local people and local traditions were as much...
Croydon, UK: Pen and Sword, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1848846185; ISBN13: 978-1848846180 The army that emerged from the reforms of Philip II of Macedon proved to be without equal in the period covered and one of the most successful in the whole of the ancient period. Much has been written on aspects of Macedonian warfare, particularly the generalship of it's most famous...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 256 p. The army that emerged from the reforms of Philip II of Macedon proved to be without equal in the period covered and one of the most successful in the whole of the ancient period. Much has been written on aspects of Macedonian warfare, particularly the generalship of it's most famous proponent, Alexander the Great, yet many studies retread the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 301 p. Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system. Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map – a brittle framework for sovereignty in...
University of California – Berkeley, 2012. — 210 p. In 188 B.C.E., a Roman commission awarded most of Anatolia (Asia Minor) to the Attalid dynasty, a modest fiefdom based in the city of Pergamon. Immediately, the Roman commissioners evacuated along with their force of arms. Enforcement of the settlement, known as the Treaty of Apameia, was left to local beneficiaries, chiefly...
Routledge, 2019. — 152 p. A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE. The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome, resulting in a malleable narrative that emphasized the...
Routledge, 2019. — 192 p. A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE. The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome, resulting in a malleable narrative that emphasized the...
Karnac Books, 2004. — 114 p. This book discusses the psychodynamics of leadership-in and relies on concepts of developmental psychology, family systems theory, cognitive theory, dynamic psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis to understand Alexander's behaviour and actions.
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 252 p. Die Aufsätze des Bandes sind die überarbeiteten und zum Teil stark erweiterten Fassungen von Vorträgen, die im Dezember 2001 auf einem Internationalen Kolloquium in Bonn gehalten wurden. Sie behandeln Probleme, die sich mit der Geschichte jeder Weltepoche verbinden, an deren Anfang, Johann Gustav Droysen zufolge, der Name Alexander steht....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. — 128 р. — (Historia Einzelschriften 145). Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es, den Satrapienbestand des Perserreiches in der Alexanderzeit festzustellen. Den Einstieg bieten die Satrapienlisten im Zusammenhang mit den Reichsteilungen von Babylon (323) und Triparadeisos (320). Der vollständige Bestand des Babylonregisters konnte durch 8 bisher...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. — 348 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 250). Die politische Landkarte der hellenistischen Welt veränderte sich im dritten Jahrhundert v. Chr. wiederholt und tiefgreifend. Gerade die Poleis der Ägäis und Kleinasiens waren von vielfachen Krisen und Umwälzungen betroffen, die die üblichen Mechanismen der Absicherung, wie etwa die Angliederung an eine...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 423 p.
The Seleucid Empire (311-64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan-the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests-the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 448 p. The Seleucid Empire (311-64 BC) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan--the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests--the kingdom encompassed a territory of remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include...
Belknap Press - Harvard University Press, 2018. — 392 p. In this eye-opening book, Paul J. Kosmin explains how the Seleucid Empire’s invention of a new kind of time - and the rebellions against this worldview - transformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future. In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central...
Mariner Books, 2024. — 416 p. A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the...
Mariner Books, 2024. — 416 p. A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. — 557 p. Existing treatments of Peloponnesian history are fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 BC, using both literary and epigraphic evidence. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long shadow was cast by the geo-political changes of the 4th...
Ossolineum, 1972. — 259 p. Książka ta nie jest powieścią o ostatniej królowej Egiptu, jakich już tyle napisano. Jest po prostu historyczną relacją, ściśle i wiernie podającą tylko to, co przekazały źródła. O Kleopatrze jako kobiecie mówią one raczej niewiele; znakomicie natomiast charakteryzują epokę oraz szereg ciekawych postaci, z którymi królowa stykała się w sytuacjach...
University of California Press, 1987. — 212 p. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries archaeological excavation has revealed vast quantities of material relating to the different areas and civilisations of the peoples of the Near and Middle East. Yet this rich source of evidence has invariably been treated from a Europocentric perspective, and interdisciplinary co-operation...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 276 p. Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia rewrites the history of the region, which has traditionally been seen as dominated by empires and home to communities whose claims of freedom and democracy were a sham. With a detailed study of epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, in this study a high level of local agency is...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 276 p. Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia rewrites the history of the region, which has traditionally been seen as dominated by empires and home to communities whose claims of freedom and democracy were a sham. With a detailed study of epigraphical, literary, and archaeological evidence, in this study a high level of local agency is...
Peeters Publishers, 2002. — 384 p. Under the Ptolemies thousands of Greek-speaking foreigners were resident in Egypt: they were active in the armed forces, in the administration, in commerce. In official and notarial documents they are identified by their ethnic, i.e. their real or fictive origin outside Egypt. The present work provides a complete inventory of the ethnics,...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2004. — 592 p. Tough, resolute, fearless. Alexander was a born warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 B.C.E. at age thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled—he had...
Brill, 2012. — 333 p. Examining all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.
De Boccard, 1949. — 625 p. Dans ce volume, une prosopographie des armées des royaumes hellénistiques mérite la première mention. Tous les spécialistes en useront ; quelques-uns, peut-être, la citeront même. Comme l'auteur demande de lui des omissions (qui sont inévitables dans un répertoire), je noterais l'absence de quelques officiers séleucides. Dans les sept chapitres qui...
Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, 2015. — 268 p. — (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge 36). The first part of this study addresses problems of dating and analyzing the ancient literary tradition of Alexander in the light of new papyrus evidence and a critical appraisal of the research. The second part uses major written...
E. Johnston, 1775. — 398 p. Philip II of Macedon (382–336 BC) was the king (basileus) of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty of Macedonian kings, and the third son of King Amyntas III of Macedon, and father of Alexander the Great and Philip III. The rise of Macedon, its conquest and political consolidation...
Mohr Siebeck, 2022. — 437 p. — (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 44). Ce volume porte sur l'évolution à l'époque hellénistique, et dans une perspective comparatiste, des cultes rendus aux rois et aux héros dans trois aires culturelles de l'Antiquité, soit l'Égypte, le Proche Orient (Mésopotamie et Levant) et la Grèce. Durant cette période, le culte royal, dans le cas de...
University of Washington Press, 2012. — 248 p. Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander's conquest to the...
Oakville: American Society of Papyrologists, 2001. — 182 p. — (Classics in papyrology; v. 2). List of Maps. List of Plates. Prefactory Notes. Introduction. The Backdrope: Eldorado on the Nile. The Engineer Kleon. Nikanor and Other Bankers. The Strategos Diophanes. The Recluse Ptolemaios. A Greek Stationed among Egyptians: Cavalry Officer Dryton and his Family. Upward Mobility...
De Gruyter Press, 2019. — 284 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 78). Arrian's Alexander's Anabasis constitutes the most reliable account at our disposal about Alexander the Great's campaign in Asia. However, whereas the work has been thoroughly studied as a historical source, its literary qualities have been relatively neglected, with no autonomous monograph...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 384 p. — (Oxford Classical Monographs). — ISBN 978-0-19-886172-0, 978-0-19-260627-3. Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles...
Basic Books, 2024. — 384 p. The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells...
London: Routledge, 1992. — 287 p. Among Alexander's successors, Lysimachus (c.361-281 BC) is the forgotten man; when he is recalled it is usually as a brutal oppressor of the Greeks, or conversely, as a mediocre man spurred into action only late in life by a domineering woman. As the first full-length study of Lysimachus in the English language, this book aims to reassess...
Page Publishing, 2019. — 322 p. The topic of inquiry is a political, military, and economic history of ancient Macedon during the reign of Philip II (359–336) in the fourth century BC. The first two chapters analyze the early history of Macedon and the development of the political, military, social, and economic institutions of the Macedonian kingdom. The balance of the book...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 425 p.
'This is an engrossing book to read, very dense, beautifully written and enormously rewarding for anyone interested in how language can shape power relations.' - Paola Ceccarelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy'an absorbing and thought-provoking study, which will be essential reading for all serious students of the Hellenistic Near East.'...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 378 p. Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting statues, and the development of families...
University of California Press, 2012. - 624 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 55).
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to...
University of California Press, 2012. — 624 p. — (Hellenistic culture and society 55).
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 208 p. The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek,...
Greenwood Press, 1975. — 277 p. Queens were part and parcel of the Hellenistic era, from the death of Alexander the Great to the last pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra VII. Due to a lack of competent male heirs, women rose to a place of visible rule in the decade following Alexander the Great’s death. Olympias, Adea Eurydice, and Cratesipolis ruled portions of Alexander’s former...
Blackmore Dennett, 2019. — 175 p. Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia...
University of Chicago Press, 1905. — 160 p. В своей работе автор рассматривает политические, военные, социальные и культурные факторы влияния эллинизма на различные регионы македонской Империи Александра Великого, ставшие затем отдельными государствами в эпоху диадохов: собственно Македонию, Грецию, Малую Азию, Египет и Сирию.
Routledge, 2020. — 712 p. — (Routledge Worlds). This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in archaeology, history, literature and art. The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as...
Routledge, 2020. — 712 p. — (Routledge Worlds). This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in archaeology, history, literature and art. The chapters from this international group of experts showcase innovative methodologies, such as...
University of California Press, 2014. — 256 p. In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as...
Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014. — 256p.; illus., maps. In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual...
University of California Press, 2016. — 256 p. In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as...
Institute for Balkan Studies, 1977. — 641 p. — (Papers read at the Second International Symposium held in Thessaloniki, 19-24 August, 1973). We present to your attention a collection of scientific articles by a number of famous scientists-researchers of the history of ancient Macedonia, presented by them in 1973 at a symposium in Thessaloniki, Greece. The articles in this...
Delphi Classics, 2018. — 340 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 85). — ISBN: 9781786563941. An Egyptian priest that flourished in the third century BC, Manetho wrote ‘Aegyptiaca’ (History of Egypt), which provided a detailed history of his homeland to the Hellenic world. Although his original texts are now largely lost, important remains have survived, transmitted to us as...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 370 p. This is the first book on athletics in the Hellenistic era, with 16 contributions covering a range of historical, archaeological and philological perspectives. Previous scholarship has focused primarily on the classical age and the Roman imperial period, but it was in the Hellenistic age that Greek sport saw several important developments:...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 359 p. By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, Joe Manning demonstrates that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions. His book offers a framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state and economy, as well as the relationship between the new Ptolemaic...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 282 p. The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated - separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 282 p. The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated - separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of...
Cooperativa Editrice Universitaria, 1980. — 176 p. Durante il lungo regno di Areo, Sparta riassume un ruolo militare e politico attivo, ponendosi di nuovo a capo di una lega peloponnesiaca. Nonostante la lega fosse stata sconfitta dalla lega etolica nel 281-280 a.C., Sparta continuò ad intervenire anche all'esterno del Peloponneso. Mentre Areo comandava una spedizione militare...
University of Houston, 2016. — 323 p. Literary and archaeological evidence for the Hellenistic Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms is extremely sparse, and scholarship relies heavily on extant royal coins. Innovative methodologies are required to extract information from these coins and better understand the mysterious monarchs who ruled a series of small kingdoms in...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 235 p. — (Ancient Lives). Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall. Phocion (402–318 BCE) won Athens’s highest public office by direct democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was officially honored as a “Useful Citizen.” A student at Plato's Academy, Phocion...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 193 p. Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into a hyper competitive world of royal women through his training under the eyes and fists of stern soldiers and the piercing intellect of Aristotle; through friendships,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 400 p. This volume richly illustrates the multiple ways in which epigraphy enables historical analysis of the postclassical polis (city-state) across a world of geographically dispersed poleis: from the Black Sea and Asia Minor to Sicily via the Aegean and mainland Greece. The collection of 16 papers looks at themes such as the modes of...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1979. — 267 p. Riveste un interesse particolare lo studio dell'epoca ellenistica, è un periodo nel quale sembra che la spinta delle armi e della cultura ellenistiche abbiano sommerso o soffocato le cívíltà orientali, fra queste quella indigena di Cari. Ma durante l'Ellenismo la penetrazione della cultura e delle armi greche fu progressivamente...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1983. — 212 p. Argomento della terza parte del libro, quella che ho maggiormente sviluppato e che mi è costata le fatiche maggiori, è la guerra tra Antioco III e Roma. Ho cercato di scrivere una storia di questo conflitto non tanto come susseguirsi di fatti ed episodi militari, quanto piuttosto come scontro tra due civiltà, la greca ellenistica e la...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 176 p. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander's death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. These states, substantial kingdoms in their own right, dominated Asia Minor, Greece, the Levant and Egypt...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 194 p. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander's death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. These states, substantial kingdoms in their own right, dominated Asia Minor, Greece, the Levant and Egypt...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 472 p. Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 472 p. Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1934. — 46 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 13). This is a careful and documented survey of the prehistoric evolution of kingship as an institution, the forms it assumes in the ancient world, and eventually in Hellenistic culture. The author claims to demonstrate that "the recurrence of this institution in the sophisticated culture...
Brill, 1986. — 205 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 89). This book is about the clash of the Hellenistic world with the Romans, about a late Hellenistic king, a dominant figure of the first century B.C., who refused to accept his inclusion in the Roman sphere of control, and attempted to assert his political independence. A subsidiary theme is the espousal of hellenism by a...
Cornell University Press, 1996. — 234 p. Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. In this richly insightful book, James F. McGlew examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Surveying a vast range of historical and literary sources, McGlew...
The Great Courses, 2013. — 78 p. This series of 24 lectures examines a crucial period in the history of the ancient world, the age ushered in by the extraordinary conquests of Alexander the Great. In all the annals of the ancient world, few stories are more gripping than those from this era. In the opening lectures, you'll explore the enigma of Alexander, son of a brilliant...
Brill, 2018. — 248 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 415; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 415). Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the ‘Greek millennium’ (J.G. Manning’s phrase) in Egypt - living long enough to...
Leiden: Brill, 2008. — 488 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 300; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 300). Heir of Ptolemy son of Lagus, Alexander the Great's general (who took Egypt over in 323 BC), Ptolemy II Philadelphus reigned in Alexandria from 282 to 246 BC. The greatest of the Hellenistic kings of his time, Philadelphus exercised power far...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 635 p. — (Untersuchungen zur Antiken Literatur und Geschichte 149). Diodoros of Sicily's book XIX is the main source for the history of the Diadochoi, Alexander the Great's Successors, from 317 to 311 BCE. With the first full-scale commentary on this text in any language Alexander Meeus offers a detailed and reliable guide to the complicated...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 635 p. — (Untersuchungen zur Antiken Literatur und Geschichte 149). Diodoros of Sicily's book XIX is the main source for the history of the Diadochoi, Alexander the Great's Successors, from 317 to 311 BCE. With the first full-scale commentary on this text in any language Alexander Meeus offers a detailed and reliable guide to the complicated...
T&T Clark, 2021. — 192 p. Against the background of a reconstructed inter-state ethical code, the rise of the Hasmoneans, Judea's ruling dynasty, is given a new perspective. Doron Mendels explores how concepts such as liberty, justice, fairness, loyalty, reciprocity, adherence to ancestral laws, compassion, accountability and love of fatherland became meaningful in the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 136 p. - Considers representations of violence and beheading in sources on Alexander the Great's career - Explores the literary models and cultural factors at work in ancient historiography - Compares and contrasts the approaches of Greek and Roman writers This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great....
New Word City, 2015. — 164 p. Alexander the Great has fascinated people for centuries - and still does. Here, from award-winning historian and journalist Charles Mercer, is the story of the military genius who became a Macedonian king at twenty told with all the color and drama characteristic of Alexander's time. This is a compact history of Alexander the Great, although short,...
Nowtilus, 2009. — 192 p. La figura de Alejandro Magno es una de las más carismáticas y relevantes de la historia universal por esa mezcla de magnanimidad y crueldad que le caracterizaba y por la grandeza de sus campañas que hicieron que en su breve vida unificara Grecia, conquistara Persia y Egipto y llevara su campaña más allá del río Indo. Educado militarmente por Leónidas el...
Ed. by H. M. Cotton and G. M. Rogers. Chapel Hill – London: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 549 p. ISBN13: 978-0-8078-3030-7 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN10: 0-8078-3030-5 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN13: 978-0-8078-5693-2 (pbk.: alk. paper). ISBN10: 0-8078-5693-2 (pbk.: alk. paper). Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford emeritus, is...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 282 p. In this book, Francoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus, comprised a hybrid of Hebrew, Greek, and Roman constructions; depending on the texts, they were a spontaneous feeling, a practice, a virtue, or a precept of...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 443 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 149). This study investigates a particular pattern of communication, employed for the exchange of information between the offices of Ptolemaic Egypt: the "cascade-letters". This definition refers to the mechanism of appending copies of letters by reproducing them in the same sheet of...
München: Akademie Verlag, 2009. — 432 S. — (KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge 11). Antiochos IV. Epiphanes (ca. 210-164) war König des seleukidischen Herrschaftsbereichs. Nach der Niederlage seines Vaters Antiochos III. in der Schlacht bei Magnesia (190) gegen die Römer und den anschließenden Friedensverhandlungen lebte er bis 178 als Geisel in Rom. Er ließ sich nach seiner...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 225 S. — (Oriens et Occidens 23). Les sources cunéiformes du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. ont conservé la trace de 250 individus portant un nom grec, dont la grande majorité date de la période de domination macédonienne (331–141 av. J.-C.) et du début de l'époque parthe (à partir de 141 av. J.-C.). Le lecteur y croise des notables locaux piqués...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 595 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 14). Malgré l’intérêt porté par les hellénistes et les assyriologues à l’histoire économique de la Basse Mésopotamie durant les deux siècles de domination macédonienne (331-129 av. J.-C.), on ne peut que constater l’absence d’étude systématique sur le sujet. Les sources, pourtant, ne manquent pas : on...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 577 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 14). Malgré l’intérêt porté par les hellénistes et les assyriologues à l’histoire économique de la Basse Mésopotamie durant les deux siècles de domination macédonienne (331-129 av. J.-C.), on ne peut que constater l’absence d’étude systématique sur le sujet. Les sources, pourtant, ne manquent pas : on...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 343 p. This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It introduces theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and subjects them to empirical scrutiny using data from Greek and Demotic papyri as...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 343 p. The transition from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt furnishes a natural experiment with which to test models of economic development and political economy. If the logic of such models is consistent with historical evidence, a study of this kind may provide empirical support for theoretical approaches that appeal to scholars working in a...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 272 p. This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitted by mainly Plutarch and Arrian. The vast majority of the texts examined here are constituted by Alexander’s 'private' letters, but the book also includes some letters regarded as official....
Brill, 2018. — 880 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 14). Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great has something for everyone who is interested in the life and afterlife of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics...
Brill, 2018. — 880 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 14). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject’s significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 305 p. — ( Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 171). In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt, Stewart Moore investigates the foundations of common assumptions about ethnicity. To maintain one’s identity in a strange land, was it always necessary to band tightly together with one’s coethnics? Sociologists...
Gyldendal, 1967. — 228 p. — (Classica et mediaevalia: Dissertationes 8). Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria (c. 215 BC – 164 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son of King Antiochus III the Great. Originally named Mithradates (alternative form Mithridates), he assumed the name Antiochus after he ascended...
Routledge, 2024. — 236 p. — (Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities). This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore, and celebrate disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world through a critical examination of art, artefacts, texts, and human remains. Through a...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. – 358 p. ISBN 978-0-521-76551-0 Hardback List of figures and table page Introduction: the absence of Egypt Representing Egypt: ethnography and Orientalism Representing Egypt: imperial and colonial histories The plan of this book: sources and histories Herodotus and an Egyptian mirage Approaching the mirage The priests say, the priests...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 564 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 224). L'autore esamina uno degli aspetti più importanti (e spesso trascurati) dell'età ellenistica: gli epiteti ufficiali dei sovrani e dei loro familiari (con attenzione anche alla titolatura regia nel suo complesso, agli epiteti non ufficiali e ai soprannomi), nel contesto più generale dei cambiamenti politici...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — (Historia Einzelschriften 224). The author explores one of the most important (and so far neglected) topics of Hellenism: the official epithets of kings and relatives (with reference even to the whole royal titulature and to unofficial epithets and nicknames), in the wider context of political and religious changes during the Hellenistic times. The...
University of Chicago Press, 2005. — 320 p. The author lays out the early Ptolemaic tax system, describes the changes in the capitation taxes during the reign of Ptolemy II, discusses the other state and temple revenues, and then reconstructs the prosopography and provenance of thirty-nine tax payers whose names occur frequently in these initial studies. Having then set the stage,...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 314 p. — (Classica et orientalia 19). he 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...
Walter de Gruyter, 2009. — 465 p. The Hellenistic monarchies arose from the collapse of Alexander's empire, and represented new forms of rule. This study demonstrates how the Hellenistic ruler presented himself and his family in picture, text and on official occasions. In particular the representation of the Hellenistic royal couple and the role of the queen at court are...
Brill Schoningh, 2016. — 477 p. Die Geschichte der Argeaden, der Dynastie Alexanders des Großen, ist schillernd. Die makedonischen Herrscher führten zumeist einen zähen Überlebenskampf und mussten ihr diplomatisches Geschick beweisen. Das Argeadenhaus erlebte seinen ersten Aufstieg durch Protektion seitens der Perser und wurde schon lange vor Alexander auch kulturell persisch...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2012 - 384 p. ISBN10: 019538864X ISBN13: 9780195388640 (eng)
While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between the Hellenistic Age has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of...
Palais des Académies, 1977. — 588 p. Bibliographie. Les Galates en Grèce. L'expansion des Celtes dans la vallée du Danube. Les sources relatives à l'invasion des Galates en Grèce. La tradition historique. La tradition légendaire. L'invasion des Galates en Macédoine et en Grèce. Première campagne dans le nord des Balkans. Seconde campagne en Macédoine et en Grèce Centrale. La...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 424 p. Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. In Egypt, he performed the ceremonies needed to be pharaoh, and thus became a god as...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 186 p. — (BAR International Series 3099/Nautical Archaeology Society Monograph Series (NAS) 6). This book proposes a new approach to the Hellenistic and Roman harbours of the Aegean, based on the combined study of harbours and contemporary ships, seamanship, and commerce. It focuses on the capacity of harbours to accommodate and serve certain numbers of...
Cornell University, 2009. — 593 p. This dissertation evaluates the significance of fortification building in Opountian Lokris as a testimony to specific strategic demands made by the Successors of Alexander III of Macedon on her territory. I argue that there is a link between largescale movements of Macedonian armies, installment of royal garrisons in Greek cities and the...
Open Book Publishers, 2020. — 150 p. What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight...
Enslow Publishers, 2000. — 112 p. Describes the efforts of Philip II of Macedonia and his son, Alexander the Great, to unify the different parts of Greece and to establish a vast Greek empire. King Philip II of Macedonia's success in unifying the fractious Greek city-states in the fourth century B.C.E. is skillfully traced in this tightly organized monograph. Less attention is...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 457 p. — (Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 103). — ISBN-13 978-3447107105. Even if Alexander's rule in Asia has to be approached primarily through the study of Greek and Latin authors, many papers in this volume try to look beyond Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius, and...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 464 p. From the Hellenistic period until the Muslim Middles Ages, the words and deeds of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) reverberated through the centuries. The tradition of his conquests and legends, which are best preserved in countless versions of the Alexander Romance, was a focal point of the conference in Wrocław 2019, the results of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. - 435 p. This book is possibly the most comprehensive biography of Alexander in print. It presents his story strictly on the basis of ancient sources, making use as much as possible of contemporary Greek inscriptions, coins, and of non-western evidence (Babylonian tablets, Egyptian papyri, Bactrian parchments). The latter in particular change...
Leiden: Brill, 2017. — 359 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 399). The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. It is a historical commentary which identifies all names and places in this piece of Greek literature approached as a source for the...
New York: The American numismatic society, 1919. — 47 p. + 8 Pl. In the early spring of 333 B. C. Alexander the Great and his Macedonians looked down from the passes of the Tarsos upon the broad and exceptionally fertile plain of Cilicia. Tarsos the capital and principal city of the fourth Satrapy of the Persian Empire lay but a few days march away. As in a similar case,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 408 p. Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a chronological and thematic approach, exploring how Polybius' political, historiographical,...
Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2007. — 139 p. In this short study of Olympia, Nielsen argues that the Olympic games played a major role in ensuring that the polis remained the dominant political system in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. In his view, the Olympic games with their related religious and political activities engendered a strong sense of communal...
F.A. Perthes, 1893. — 519 p. Фундаментальная классическая работа германского историка подробно рассказывает об истории Македонского царства и полисов Греции с 359 по 281 годы до н.э. Большие разделы этой книги посвящены правлению царей Филиппа II Македонского, Александра Македонского, их преемников и будущих диадохов. Отдельный раздел этой работы повествует об истории греческих...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2013. — 208 p. Una reina entre dos mundos. Descubra la intensa y esclarecedora historia de la mujer más amada, odiada, alabada y denigrada de todos los tiempos que cautivó a hombres de la talla de Julio César y Marco Antonio para salvar la independencia de Egipto y su propio poder Conozca la vida y obra de la última reina de Egipto, que ascendió al trono en...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 814 p. Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 814 p. Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. — 816 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 355). Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration,...
Duckworth, 1999. — 351 p.
Daniel Ogden's Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death, first published in 1999, has established itself as the principal guide to the history of royal women and their court intrigues throughout the Hellenistic period. The author supplies clear narrative and analysis of the strategic in-fighting involving the numerous Cleopatras, Laodices and Stratonices, their...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 612 p. 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...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2002. — xxv+318 p. The history of the Hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. Here are fourteen new perspectives on the period from a distinguished and international group of scholars. Their varied papers are grouped together around five themes: Structure and...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2002. — 320 p. The history of the Hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. Here are fourteen new perspectives on the period from a distinguished and international group of scholars. Their varied papers are grouped together around five themes: Structure and...
Second edition. — The Classical Press of Wales, 2023. — xxxiv + 373 p. The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries the better known excesses under Roman potentates such as Claudius and Nero. This new enhanced and revised...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 400 p. In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 360 p. Professor Graham I. Oliver provides a new assessment of the economic history of Athens in the Hellenistic era, when the city was no longer an imperial power and struggled to maintain its territory, both at home in Attica and overseas in the cleruchies. Oliver assesses how political and military change affected the fragile economies of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 246 p. Berenice II Euergetis (ca. 267-221 BCE), one of the better known Ptolemaic queens, remains fairly unknown outside specialist circles. Berenice was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. She was both the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (modern day Libya) and wife to King Ptolemy III of Egypt. This collection of essays focuses on...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 320 p. This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the institution of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2019. — 280 p. The kingdom of Bithynia arose during the age of Alexander and his successors, and, thanks to its ambitious and charismatic kings, became the dominant power in the Propontic area within a few decades. This book explores its emergence through an in-depth analysis of the surviving sources in order to reassess its role in the Hellenistic...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 268 p. This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history. The resurgence of interest in the Hellenistic period brings the Peloponnese to the front in response to emerging trends in research. By...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 272 p. — (Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001). For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the...
Brill, 2012. — 604 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 347; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 347). This monograph focuses on religion to explore how the socio-cultural infrastructure of Cyprus was affected by the transition from segmented administration by many Cypriot kings to the island-wide government by a foreign Ptolemaic correspondent. It...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 268 p. It's presents Uncomplete Version (from Author). The book deals with the naval battles between the Persian fleet and Alexander the Great and his Macedonians in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean between 334-331 BC. It covers the siege of Tyre and in addition the failed efforts by the Persians and King Agis III of...
New York: American Philological Association, 1960. — X, 275 p. — (American Philological Association: Philological Monographs 20). The most detailed monograph on the fragmentary historians of Alexander the Great.
Les Belles Lettres, 1984. — 416 р. — (Collection d'études anciennes). D'autres historiens avaient suivi Alexandre en Asie. La tradition nomme Anaximène de Lampsaque, qui semble avoir écrit en rhéteur et en panégyriste; Charù de Mytilene, qui fut chambellan et huissier du roi et a laissé une œuvre étendue (au moins dix livres), pleine de détails intimes relatifs à la vie de cour...
Peter Lang, 1985. — 279 p. War Kreta in klassischer Zeit gekennzeichnet durch Isolierung innerhalb der griechischen Welt, so lassen die hellenistischen Quellen einen ökonomischen wie sozialen Wandel erkennen. Diese Entwicklung war getragen vom Bedarf des Auslands an Söldnern und innerhalb Kretas vom Überschuss an wehrfähigen Bürgern - «Bürger- soldaten», traditionsgemäss...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 289 p. Nach dem Zerfall des Reiches Alexanders des Großen übernahmen in den Diadochenkämpfen die Ptolemäer ganz Ägypten, das sie als Pharaonen bis zur Eingliederung in das römische Weltreich regierten. Unter ihrer 300-jährigen Herrschaft etablierte sich Ägypten zum wichtigsten, einflussreichsten und wirtschaftlich prosperierendsten Diadochenreich - die...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 256 p. For almost two centuries the Macedonian phalanx, created by Philip II and refined by his son, Alexander the Great, dominated the battlefields of the ancient world from the sweltering riverbanks of India to the wooded hills of Italy. As the preferred weapon of some of antiquity’s greatest commanders, this powerful military system took center stage...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 256 p. For almost two centuries the Macedonian phalanx, created by Philip II and refined by his son, Alexander the Great, dominated the battlefields of the ancient world from the sweltering riverbanks of India to the wooded hills of Italy. As the preferred weapon of some of antiquity’s greatest commanders, this powerful military system took center stage in...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 260 p. — ISBN-13 978-1107106062. In this book Reinhard Pirngruber provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. His approach is informed by the theoretical insights of New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well as providing...
University of Tasmania, 2016. — 317 p. Отличная и современная монография австралийского ученого посвящена исследованию напряженного военного и политического противостояния на территории древней Македонии и Греции (в 319-308 до н.э.) между номинальным регентом Македонской Империи Полисперхоном и его противником Кассандром, сыном Антипатра.
Schocken, 1984. — 267 p. After its conquest in 331 B.C., Egypt became the center of the Hellenistic world, attracting men and women from other parts of the Mediterranean area. In this cosmopolitan and mobile society, Greek women of the ruling class had unprecedented opportunities and were able to employ some of the legal freedoms enjoyed by their Egyptian counterparts. Using...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 312 p. Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 312 p. Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 311 p. Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the...
Da Capo Press, 2005. — 272 p. By the time Alexander the Great was twenty-six, he had conquered the world's mightiest empire, Persia. He was the envy of every man. But Alexander had a higher aspiration-to be the envy of the gods. And so, Alexander embarked on a long campaign of conquest across Asia. He marched his army through the mountains of Afghanistan to the Indian...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 208 p. The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All...
University of California Press, 2008. — 380 p. This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenistic history by focusing attention on biblical and Jewish evidence and reading that evidence in new ways. The essays consider the kings, queens, and power figures of the Hellenistic dynasties, as well as ancient...
McFarland Inc., 2012. — 244 p. With its mixture of famous battles and storied commanders, warfare in 4th century B.C. Greece has long held a fascination for military enthusiasts and the general public alike. Histories, biographies, and popular culture have turned the exploits of noted generals like Xenophon and Iphicrates of Athens, Epaminondas of Thebes, and the father-son...
Claremont, California: Regina Books, 2008. — 326 p. Table of contents: Preface Centering the Periphery Philip II and the Transformation of Macedonia: A Reappraisal The Development of a Naval Siege Unit under Philip II and Alexander III Sport and Ethnicity in Ancient Macedonia Philip II and Olympias on Samothrace: A Clue to Macedonian Politics During the 360s Alexander, the...
University of California Press, 1994. - 544 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 14).
Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and...
University of California Press, 1994. — 544 p. — (Hellenistic Culture and Society, 14). Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and...
The History Press, 2005. — 112 p. — (Pocket Biographies). Of all those who have set out to conquer the world, Alexander the Great came closest to finishing the job. The son of King Philip II of Macedonia, from an early age he was taught that he was a descendant of Achilles and Hercules and was conditioned for conquest and kingly glory. Alexander was educated by the philosopher...
Oxford University Press, 1983. — 225 p. Ptolemy II Philadelphus (308/9 – 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 to 246 BC. He was the son of Ptolemy I Soter, the Macedonian Greek general of Alexander the Great who founded the Ptolemaic Kingdom after the death of Alexander, and queen Berenice I, originally from Macedon in northern Greece. During Ptolemy II's reign,...
Routledge, 1995. — 285 p. The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his successors and discusses the significance of the causes...
University of California Press, 1996. — xvii, 672 p. — (Hellenistic Culture and Society 22). In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly...
University of California Press, 1996. — 659 p. In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and coins--is scattered in the published...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 336 p. Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 226 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied ‘to the strongest.’ There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories.Most of these Diadochi, or successors, were consummate professionals who had learned their trade under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 226 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied ‘to the strongest.’ There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories.Most of these Diadochi, or successors, were consummate professionals who had learned their trade under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 226 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied ‘to the strongest.’ There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these vast territories.Most of these Diadochi, or successors, were consummate professionals who had learned their trade under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 256 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these Diadochi (Successors) were consummate professionals who had learnt the art of war under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 256 p. When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these Diadochi (Successors) were consummate professionals who had learnt the art of war under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 256 p. This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context for a discussion of the Roman conquests. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 256 p. This book recounts and analyzes the complex series of conflicts between the Hellenistic Successor states in the generation before the Romans intervened in, and ultimately conquered, the region. This period is rarely treated in any depth, usually warranting little more than a summary as context for a discussion of the Roman conquests. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 320 p. Why was it that 2300 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 320 p. Why was it that 2300 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 320 p. Why was it that 2300 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 320 p. Why was it that 2300 years ago the people who had recently conquered the world were unable to stop barbarian Galatians from looting the tombs of their revered royal line? Why was it that the Macedonian state virtually created by Philip II and taken to the heights of epochal triumph by his son Alexander the great had, hardly two generations...
Random House, 2004. - 464 p. For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as...
Random House, 2004. — 312 p. For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003. — 444 p. — (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies; ISSN: 1872-3357). — ISBN: 90-04-12463-2. 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...
Blackwell Publishing, 2010. — 685 pp. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-7936-2. The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike. - Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and...
Blackwell Publishing, 2010. — 685 pp. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike. - Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field....
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 280 p. From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander’s elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldiers who followed Alexander on his...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 280 p. From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander’s elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldiers who followed Alexander on his...
Presidio Press, 2012. — 431 p. During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India. Arrian’s history of those conquests, the most reliable and detailed account to emerge from the ancient world, is a work that will fascinate readers interested in classical studies, the history of...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2005. — 224 p. Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive--Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius--this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in Alexander's life. The Introduction sets these works in historical context, stretching from the...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 224 p. A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again. The life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander the Great (323–282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 224 p. A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again. The life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander the Great (323–282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — 369 p. Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire’s...
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — xxiv+602 p. List of Plates. Political Development. The Ancient World in the Fourth Century B.C. Alexander and the Successors. The Balance of Power.
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — xxiv+602 p. List of Plates. Political Development. The Ancient World in the Fourth Century B.C. Alexander and the Successors. The Balance of Power.
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — viii+710 p. Disintegration of the Balance of Power and Roman Intervention. The Roman Protectorate and the First Stage of Roman Domination. Roman Domination. Summary and Epilogue: New Features in the Social and Economic Life of the Hellenistic World.
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — viii+710 p. Disintegration of the Balance of Power and Roman Intervention. The Roman Protectorate and the First Stage of Roman Domination. Roman Domination. Summary and Epilogue: New Features in the Social and Economic Life of the Hellenistic World.
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — 467 p. Notes. Athenian Coins found in Egypt. By J.G. Milne. The Egyptian Mines of the Sinai Peninsula. By Prof. R.P. Blake. The Coin Standards of Ptolemy I. By E.S.G. Robinson (British Museum). Pergamene Ware. By Frederick O. Waage. Addenda and Corrigenda. List of Abbreviations. Indexes.
Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — 467 p. Notes. Athenian Coins found in Egypt. By J.G. Milne. The Egyptian Mines of the Sinai Peninsula. By Prof. R.P. Blake. The Coin Standards of Ptolemy I. By E.S.G. Robinson (British Museum). Pergamene Ware. By Frederick O. Waage. Addenda and Corrigenda. List of Abbreviations. Indexes.
Harper Collins Publishers, 2022. — 320 p. This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great's story often reads like fiction: son to a snake-loving mother and a battle-scarred father; tutored by Aristotle; a youth from the periphery of the...
Attyka, 2011. — 212 p. Bitwa pod Cheroneją jest jedną z najgłośniejszych batalii starożytności. Latem 338 roku p.n.e. na polach pod Cheroneją władca Macedonii Filip II pokonał siły koalicji państw greckich, głównie Aten i Teb. Przez wiele lat cheronejska wiktoria uchodziła za symboliczny kres niepodległości Grecji. Cheroneja to także narodziny potęgi Macedonii, której władca...
Brill, 2020. — 302 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 14). The diplomatic tool known as isopolity is a testament to Greek ingenuity and is attested all over the Mediterranean from the 4th to 1st century B.C., mainly epigraphically. "Isopoliteia" was a popular way to establish new relashionships, reinforce old ones or to regulate difficult situations among...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 161 p. An overview of Alexander's life--from his early military exploits to the creation of his empire and the legacy left after his premature death. Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In a dozen years, Alexander took the whole of Asia Minor and Egypt, destroyed the once mighty Persian Empire, and pushed his army...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 331 p. Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to...
New York: Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, 2007. — 320 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Alexander the Great is a towering figure in world history, but despite our long-held fascination with him, his burial site is unknown. The search for Alexander's tomb began soon after his untimely death in 323 B.C. and continues even today. The epic pursuit of the tomb...
Barnes and Noble, 2002. — 500 p. He was educated by Aristotle, he was king of Macedon, conqueror of much of Asia and one of the greatest leaders in the world. He was incontestably one of the most brilliant generals of all time and one of the most powerful personalities of antiquity. He influenced the spread of Hellenism and instigated profound changes in the course of world...
Little, Brown and Company, 2010. — 432 p. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though...
Mohr Siebrek, 2021. — 672 p. Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria...
Mohr Siebrek, 2021. — 672 p. Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1988. — 795 S. Mit dem Begriff Hellenismus werden im Allgemeinen die dreieinhalb Jahrhunderte vor Christi Geburt bezeichnet, von Alexander dem Großen bis Christi Geburt. In dieser Zeit drangen die Griechen weit in die Welt des Orients ein und prägten die geistige und politische Kultur im gesamten Mittelmeerraum und darüber hinaus. Das Kleine Lexikon...
University of California Press, 2000. - 365 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 24).
Between 279 and 229 B.C., the Aitolian koinon, a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighboring lands and peoples lying between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This new political configuration contributed to the development of modern...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 524 p. Die hellenistische Biographie ist eine Gattung, die noch immer unter einem schlechten Ruf zu leiden hat. Man betont ihren fiktiven, bisweilen unernsten Charakter und sieht in ihr eine Form der Unterhaltungsliteratur mit allenfalls ethisch-pädagogischer Zielsetzung. Die Aufsätze in diesem Band entwerfen ein differenzierteres Bild von der Gattung...
Brill Schöningh, 2023. — XXIV + 1176 S., 1644 s/w Abb. + 6 farbige Abb. — (Mittelmeerstudien 24). Die Studie setzt sich mit besiegelten Urkundenverschlüssen aus hellenistischen Archivkontexten auseinander. Meist sind die Urkundenverschlüsse nur dann erhalten geblieben, wenn das zugehörige Archiv abgebrannt ist. Durch das Feuer wurden die Urkunden zerstört und die tönernen...
Leipzig: T. Weicher, 1914. — 288 S. This is a study on the ancient sources for the Diadochi period, including Hieronymus of Cardia. Of the contemporary sources, in which the history of the Diadochi period was summarized, Hieronymus, Duris and Diyllus remained viable until the Roman Empire. The reports about the Diadochi period that are available to us today are mainly based on...
The Overlook Press, 2010. — 320 p. Michael Scott makes a complex, fast moving period of history very accessible. The period from the Peloponnesian Wars to the Conquest of Alexander the Great was a period of great transition and it can be hard to follow the rise of various leagues and alliances, as well as the rise of various cities and the interplay of Persian politics. This book...
New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. — 340 p. This book draws on a wide range of evidence to study the history of Athens from 386 to 322 B.C. Taking a sympathetic view of the Second Athenian League, Sealey focuses on the career of Demosthenes to provide important insights into Athenian politics and policies. Demosthenes experienced repeated setbacks in his early...
Montvert Publications, 1994. — 80 p.; ills. This volume and its companion volume gather for the first time the lilerary and archaeological evidence for the Romanization of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic armies during the reigns of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria (175-164 BC) and Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt (180-145 BC). It has long been realized that the late Hellenistic armies...
Montvert Publications, 1995. — 84 pages.
This volume and its companion volume gather for the first time the lilerary and archaeological evidence for the Romanization of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic armies during the reigns of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of Syria (175-164 BC) and Ptolemy VI Philometor of Egypt (180-145 BC). It has long been realized that the late Hellenistic armies of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 204 p. This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this might be accomplished. Moreover, unlike...
Osprey, 2008. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1846033284 Alexander was arguably the greatest military commander ever. Upon the assassination of his father King Philip II of Macedon in the summer of 336 BC, he took over the reins of power of a now united Greece. Two years later he led his combined Macedonian and Greek army into Asia and began the greatest military conquest in world history....
University of California Press, 1993. — 262 p. The empire created by Alexander the Great's general, Seleucus, constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states: yet this is the first substantial treatment of Seleucid history to appear for fifty years. The authors approach this important and successful state from new perspectives, seeing it as part of the Middle...
University of California Press, 1993. — 262 p. The empire created by Alexander the Great's general, Seleucus, constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states: yet this is the first substantial treatment of Seleucid history to appear for fifty years. The authors approach this important and successful state from new perspectives, seeing it as part of the...
Routledge, 2014. — 608 p. In this comprehensive and well-documented book, Graham Shipley integrates the diverse aspects of politics, society and culture to create a coherent and thorough survey of the Hellenistic world. The Greek World after Alexander examines social changes in the cities of the Greek world and in the kingdoms which succeeded Alexander’s empire. The investigation...
Routledge, 2014. — 608 p. In this comprehensive and well-documented book, Graham Shipley integrates the diverse aspects of politics, society and culture to create a coherent and thorough survey of the Hellenistic world. The Greek World after Alexander examines social changes in the cities of the Greek world and in the kingdoms which succeeded Alexander’s empire. The investigation...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 364 p. An additional topic of interest is the reception and transformation of related currents in neighboring antique cultures as well as in the subsequent cultures of late antiquity, Islam, the Middle Ages, and the modern era. Published studies investigate a variety of topics, including individual buildings and spaces, urban complexes, as well as structural...
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. — 152 p. - (Great Empires of the Past).
From the age of 20 until his death at 32, Alexander the Great and his armies from Greece swept across a vast region that included Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. Ultimately ruling an empire that stretched approximately 2 million square miles across three continents, Alexander revolutionized the way...
Clarendon Press, 1988. — 197 p. The visual image of the ruler, particularly in sculpture, played an important role in expressing the character of the new, distinctive style of monarchy brought to Greece and the East by Alexander and the Hellenistic kings. Royal portraits survive on coins and in sculpture, and we read aboutthem in inscriptions and literature - evidence that is...
Jaca Book, 1984. — 224 p. In questa raccolta di saggi si è cercato di cogliere, attraverso la storiografia e la pubblicistica contemporanee ad Alessandro e attraverso la cultura e l'imitatio dei secoli successivi, alcuni tra gli aspetti più interessanti e, in parte, meno conosciuti, della figura del Grande Alessandro.
Brill Academic Publishers, 1972. — 119 p. Although based on a doctoral dissertation, this work is agreeably concise, and the ground covered comprises the Hellenistic iconography of Sarapis, the relation of the god to Pluto, Osiris, Dionysus, the Apis Bull, Apis the King, and Asclepius, as well as later Hellenistic equations. A good point is made in the Introduction about the...
Karolinum, 2013. — 261 p. In Greek Gods in the East, Ladislav Stanco explores the exportation of religious imagery and themes from the Hellenistic Mediterranean to Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Bactria, now Uzbekistan. As Stanco shows clearly and effectively, while Eastern cultures borrowed heavily from the iconography of Greek mythology, they also...
Brill, 2013. — 458 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 363). There is a long tradition in classical scholarship of reducing the Hellenistic period to the spreading of Greek language and culture far beyond the borders of the Mediterranean. More than anything else this perception has hindered an appreciation of the manifold consequences triggered by the creation of new spaces of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 189 S. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 50). This book investigates the development of religious associations in the Aegean world in Hellenistic and Roman times on the basis of epigraphic and archaeological evidence from major sites. It offers a socio-cultural examination of religious associations linked to a variety of deities at...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 240 p. Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great traveled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, whom he admired greatly. Disgusted to find Cyrus’ tomb desecrated and looted, the Macedonian king had the tomb guards tortured, the Persian provincial governor...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 240 p. Upon his return from India, Alexander the Great traveled to the Persian royal city of Pasargadae to pay homage at the tomb of King Cyrus, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, whom he admired greatly. Disgusted to find Cyrus’ tomb desecrated and looted, the Macedonian king had the tomb guards tortured, the Persian provincial governor...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 265 p. Since his death in Babylon in 323 BC, Alexander the Great has inspired an unparalleled legacy founded on both histories and legends. From ancient Alexandria to twentieth-century America, and from politics to popular entertainment, he has remained a source of fascination and debate. Today our conception of Alexander rests upon two Roman...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 478 p. Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary...
Barkhuis, 2012. — 416 p. Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 122 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets in Ancient History). Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman is an introduction to the career and impact of the great Macedonian conqueror and the main themes of his reign. As well as tackling problems of interpretation, the author includes: an examination of the written and other sources and the problems of working with...
Routledge, 2021. — 173 p. This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes in about 310 BCE, the fullest account of Indian geography, history and customs available to the classical world. The Indica was a pioneering work of ethnography that exemplified a new direction in Hellenistic writing; India was...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 209 p. The Book of Alexander the Great - or the Phyllada - has for three centuries been the most popular account of Alexander's career in modern Greece. After circulating in manuscript form, it was first published in 1680 in Venice, and has been continuously in print in Greek ever since. The Phyllada broadly follows the structure of the ancient Alexander...
Penguin Books, 2008. — 108 p. He was destined to rule the world. A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfil this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and leader of a vast army. Soon his fame sweeps the world as he builds a mighty empire, conquering all who...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither "western" nor "eastern"...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither "western" nor "eastern"...
Peeters, 2016. — 192 p. — ISBN: 904293350X; ISBN13: 9789042933507. In the third century BCE, the Ptolemaic imperial court at Alexandria was the unchallenged center of culture and learning in the Hellenistic world. Backed by the vast wealth and prestige of the Ptolemies, the city of Alexandria became the symbolic capital of the world, the main hub of a dynamic imperial network...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 404 p. No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian.Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain and...
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1951. — 602 p. The Bactrian Kingdom, known to historians as the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom or simply Greco-Bactria, was a Hellenistic-era Greek state, and along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world in Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.
Cambridge University Press, 1948. — 164 p. Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869-1957) was a British ancient historian who wrote numerous works on the Hellenistic world. Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in two volumes during 1948, has become a classic text and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated. Based on a lifetime's work and elegantly...
Cambridge University Press, 1948. — 480 p. Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869-1957) was a British ancient historian who wrote numerous works on the Hellenistic world. Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in two volumes during 1948, has become a classic text and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated. Based on a lifetime's work and elegantly...
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913. — 501 p. Классическая книга известного историка античности великолепно и подробно рассказывает о личности, делах и политике царя Античной Македонии (в 277-274, 272-239 гг. до н.э.) из династии Антигонидов - Антигона II Гоната (с. 319-239 до н.э.), сына и достойного наследника знаменитого царя Деметрия Полиоркета.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 170 p. First published in 1930, this is a collection of essays by the noted classical scholar W. W. Tarn, originally delivered as Lees Knowles Lectures in Military History at Trinity College, Cambridge. Tarn draws on a range of sources to trace the history and development of warfare in the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis on military...
Cambridge University Press, 1938. — 539 p. Written by a highly regarded scholar in the field, this is the first published study on the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states. The book begins with an overview of the Seleucid settlement, providing a background to the relations between Greeks and Asiatics after the death of Alexander the Great....
Athens, 1998. — 584 p. — (Μελετήματα 26). Весьма своеобразная монография греческого ученого, представляющая собой еще одну (после аналогичных масштабных работ Берве и Хеккеля) фундаментальную попытку составить максимальный биографический (просопографический) справочник по всем действующим и хоть как-то известным персоналиям эпохи македонского царя Александра Великого. На мой...
Athens, 1994. — 138 p. — (Μελετήματα 18). Оригинальное исследование известного греческого историка посвящено воссозданию кратких биографических сведений для множества македонских знатных политических и военных персон, родившихся в македонском городе и провинции Эдесса в период IV-II веков до н.э.
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 192 p. A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification. Although repulsed by Ptolemy IV at the Battle of Raphia, his eastern campaigns...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 192 p. A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and reunification. Although repulsed by Ptolemy IV at the Battle of Raphia, his eastern campaigns...
Philadelphia, 1959. - 565 p. The Jewish Publication Society of America The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University Hellenistic Civilization in Palestine Political Events Down to the Time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes The Greek Towns of Palestine Jerusalem on the Eve of the Hellenistic Reform The Hellenistic Reform Antiochus' Persecution of Judaism The War of Liberation The Hasmonean...
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 254 p. Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity. In this book, Carol G. Thomas places this powerful figure within the context of his time, place, culture, and ancestry in order to discover what influences shaped his life and career. The book begins with an exploration of the Macedonia that conditioned the lives of...
Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1975. — 151 p. It is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detailed examination and in the interverring years a great deal of new papyrological and epigraphic material has come to light. It was my original intention to write a study of the office in this period with, by way of introduction, a brief...
Clarendon Press, 1973. — 323 p. As archaeologists recover the lost treasures of Alexandria, the modern world is marveling at the latter-day glory of ancient Egypt and the Greeks who ruled it from the ascension of Ptolemy I in 306 B.C. to the death of Cleopatra the Great in 30 B.C. The abundance and magnificence of royal oinochoai, busts, mummy royal portraits, sculptures from...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 192 p. A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystate. - The first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more than 20 years and one of the few books dedicated to a single Hellenistic city-state - Introduces the reader to Hellenistic Rhodes, an important, but also remarkably understudied,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 192 p. A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystate. - The first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more than 20 years and one of the few books dedicated to a single Hellenistic city-state - Introduces the reader to Hellenistic Rhodes, an important, but also remarkably understudied,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 164 p. The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve in the mercenary army of a Macedonian king...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 164 p. The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve in the mercenary army of a Macedonian king...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 152 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198746-04-0. The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube...
University of California Press, 2003. — 205 p. Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know―or might know―about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in...
Steiner Franz Verlag, 2020. — 363 p. — (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 7). Within a single decade (334–325 BC) Alexander III of Macedon conquered much of the known world of his time, creating an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India and southern Egypt. His clear intention of establishing permanent dominion over this huge and culturally diverse territory raises...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 330 p. Scholarly assessment of Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Diaspora has, in the past, been dominated by our knowledge of the large and influential communities in Rome and Alexandria. This book brings together the evidence for significant Jewish communities in another part of the Diaspora, namely Asia Minor. By...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 276 p. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as beginning in 323 BC and ending with the deaths of the last two Successors in 281 BC. This is a major...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 276 p. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as beginning in 323 BC and ending with the deaths of the last two Successors in 281 BC. This is a major...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 239 p. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as beginning in 323 BC and ending with the deaths of the last two Successors in 281 BC. This is a major...
Robinson Publishing, 2013. — 256 p. When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders. As queen she faced conquest by a new, all-powerful empire. A Ptolemy, descended from a general of Alexander the Great who conquered the Nile as part of his Macedonian lands, her relationship with Mark Anthony has become one of the...
Robinson Publishing, 2013. — 256 p. When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders. As queen she faced conquest by a new, all-powerful empire. A Ptolemy, descended from a general of Alexander the Great who conquered the Nile as part of his Macedonian lands, her relationship with Mark Anthony has become one of the...
Basic Books, 2008. — 320 p. The Ptolemies, the last dynasty of independent Egypt, enjoyed three centuries of rule sandwiched between the conquest of the Macedonian Alexander the Great (332) and the conquest of the Roman Octavian (30). Their stories, an integral part of Roman history, were recorded not only in Egyptian hieroglyphs, but also in Latin and in Greek. Best remembered...
Basic Books, 2008. — 320 p. The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum" - a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really? Cleopatra was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies. Highly intelligent, she spoke many languages and was rumored to be the...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2017. — 52 р. Cleopatra is one of the most dynamic figures of ancient history—a powerful, brilliant queen whose cunning, ambition, and boldness not only brought her to Egypt's throne but also into alliances and conflicts with Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and the Roman Empire itself. Although her desperate bid for power may have ended in...
Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1998. — 173 p. In 343 BC Taranto appealed for aid against the barbarians to its mother city Sparta, in the face of aggression by the Brutian League. In 342 BC, Archidamus III, king of Sparta, arrived in Italy with an army and a fleet to fight the Lucanians and their allies. In 338 BC, during the Battle of Manduria, the Spartan and...
T.D. van Basten, 2016. — 81 p. — (Greatest Military Leaders in History). Alexander III of Macedon, better known to the world as Alexander the Great, was one of the most powerful rulers of the ancient world. During his time, he amassed the largest amount of land that the Greek empire would ever see. He seemed to capture land with ease and managed to spread the culture and language...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 300 p. - Analyses Hellenistic economic development and monetisation from the perspective of labour history - Reframes the nature of paid military service and questions the mercenary paradigm - Draws on a wide range of evidence, with up-to-date assessments and authoritative new translations of key epigraphic documents This book explains the...
Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2003. — 380 p. Il volume ospita una serie di contributi, che tengono conto delle più recenti scoperte epigrafiche ed archeologiche, tutti incentrati su vari aspetti della storia e della cultura del Vicino Oriente durante l'età ellenistica. Gli autori esaminano, con il supporto delle fonti letterarie antiche e degli studi più recenti, varie...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 276 p. Beyond Alexandria aims to provide a better understanding of Seleucid literature, covering the period from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. Despite the historical importance of the Seleucid Empire during the long third century BCE, little attention has been devoted to its literature. The works of authors affiliated with the Seleucid court have...
Durham University, 1977. — 199 p. Своеобразная монография английского ученого воссоздает исследование личности, биографии и свершений знаменитого македонского царя Филиппа II на основании обширных подстрочных комментариев и оценок на базе довольно редких и обрывочных строк из уцелевших и весьма неполных сочинений (о Македонском царстве) древнеримских историков Юстина и Помпея...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 384 p. Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide in 30 B.C. The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who had ruled Egypt for three centuries, Cleopatra created her own mythology. She became an icon in her own lifetime...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. — 507 p. During the period 360-146 B.C., the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to the large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformation. The contributors to the volume are students or close...
University of Edinburgh, 2011. — 286 p. Оригинальная научная монография посвящена исследованию темы политического обустройства греческих полисов в период с 337 по 262 годы до н.э. Автор освещает время деятельности и постепенное разрушение Коринфского Союза (с 337 г. до н.э.), рассматривает дальнейшую геополитическую и дипломатическую стратегию основных свободных греческих полисов...
Groningen: Styx Publications, 1998. — 177 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs, 12). — ISBN13: 9789056930127 ISBN: 9056930125 The Harvard Semitic Museum possesses ten archival cuneiform tablets from Seleucid Uruk bearing the impressions of ninety-five different metal finger rings and stone stamp seals. Typically, texts and seal impressions are treated exclusively of eachother. This...
Routledge, 2021. — 220 p. Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography - in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome. This volume brings together ten essays from leading international scholars in...
Routledge, 2021. — 220 p. Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography - in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those of his Successors, demonstrating that it was as integral to Hellenistic courts as it was to Imperial Rome. This volume brings together ten essays from leading international scholars in...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 350 p. In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World , D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily's agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that, at one time, played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western...
Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2016. — 273 p. Mes travaux en vue de l’obtention d’un doctorat français portent sur les communautés étrangères dans l’Empire lagide. Cette recherche concerne l’identité ethnique des Juifs, des Grecs, des Syriens dans la société égyptienne de l’époque hellénistique et le problème de l’acculturation, plus exactement, des transferts culturels...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 304 p. — (Ancient Warfare and Civilization). Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing events. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 296 p. In the third century BCE, the ancient kingdom of Macedon held dominion over mainland Greece, but it was rapidly descending into chaos. After Alexander the Great’s death, several of his successors contended for the Macedonian throne, and amid the tumult the Celts launched a massive invasion, ravaging and plundering Macedon and northern...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 296 p. In the third century BCE, the ancient kingdom of Macedon held dominion over mainland Greece, but it was rapidly descending into chaos. After Alexander the Great’s death, several of his successors contended for the Macedonian throne, and amid the tumult the Celts launched a massive invasion, ravaging and plundering Macedon and northern...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. — 474 p. This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the "injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors," the author offers the reader a new, more balanced...
Thornton Butterworth, 1933. — 355 p. Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander III or Alexander of Macedonia, king of Macedonia (336–323 BCE), who overthrew the Persian empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms. Already in his lifetime the subject of fabulous stories, he later became the hero of a...
Harvard University Press, 2014. - 384 p. - (Revealing Antiquity).
Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. Drawing on a trove of original archaeological and textual evidence, Zeev Weiss reconstructs an ancient world where...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 224 p. — (Archiv Für Papyrusforschung Und Verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte 38). Zur Militäradministration der Ptolemäerzeit sind bisher nur wenige Quellen bekannt, so dass es schwer ist, ein klares Bild von diesem Zweig des ptolemäischen Verwaltungsapparates zu zeichnen. Dank der hier vorgelegten Erstedition einer Verwaltungsakte aus der Mitte des 2....
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as "The Besieger of Cities", Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the disintegration of Alexander the Great's Empire after 323 BC, and the most...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as "The Besieger of Cities", Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the disintegration of Alexander the Great's Empire after 323 BC, and the most...
Routledge, 2001. — 264 p. Although there are many books written about the most famous Cleopatra, this is the only study in English devoted to her less well-known but equally illustrious namesakes. Cleopatras traces the turbulent lives and careers of these historically important women, examining in particular the earlier Macedonian and Ptolemaic Cleopatras, and the impact of...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009. — 410 S. — (KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge 6). Das hellenistische Rhodos gilt in der modernen Forschung ganz überwiegend als ein Staat, der aufgrund seiner "merkantilen Interessenstruktur" eine außenpolitische Grundlinie verfolgt habe, die durch Bekämpfung der Piraterie, Minimierung militärischer Gewaltanwendung, Neutralität und das Eintreten für ein...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 128 p. Cleopatra is an iconic figure and one of the most powerful women in history. The last pharaoh of Egypt, and often depicted as a great beauty, she was renowned for her liaisons with the world's most powerful men, including Gaius Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. This fictional retelling of her life is a dramatic and thrilling story. Lives in...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 384 p. A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them by showing due reverence to their long-held traditions. After his death, as the Greek...
Brill, 2021. — 537 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 196). In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides...
Ebury Publishing, 2015. — 224 p. Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements. Using the ancient historians as his guides, Wood follows Alexanders journey as closely as possible, crossing deserts and rivers, from Turkey to war-torn Afghanistan....
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 280 p. When Rome defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra and annexed Egypt, the rule of the longest-lived of the Hellenistic dynasties and one of the most illustrious in Egyptian history came to an end. For nearly three hundred years, the Macedonian dynasty known as the Ptolemaic had controlled Egypt and its mixed population of Egyptians,...
Clarendon Press, 1994. — 425 p. This collection of essays by 17 international scholars dealing mainly with 4th-century Greek and Macedonian history and archaeology - especially the period of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Sources studied include Thucydides, Diodorus, Siculus, Arrian and Polybius. A new archaeological site is presented, as well as a hitherto unpublished...
Routledge, 2004. — 389 p. Alexander the Great conquered territories on a superhuman scale and established an empire that stretched from Greece to India. He spread Greek culture and education throughout his empire, and was worshipped as a living god by many of his subjects. But how great is a leader responsible for the deaths on tens of thousands of people? A ruler who prefers...
London, Routledge Group, 2003 - 332 p. This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken. The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 388 p. Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded the Macedonian empire from Greece in the west to Asia Minor, the Levant, Egypt, Central...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 289 p. Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 321 p. In the history of ancient Macedonia, the last three Antigonid kings--Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148)--are commonly overlooked in favor of their predecessors Philip II (r. 359-336) and his son Alexander the Great (r. 336-323), who established a Macedonian empire. By...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 321 p. In the history of ancient Macedonia, the last three Antigonid kings--Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148)--are commonly overlooked in favor of their predecessors Philip II (r. 359-336) and his son Alexander the Great (r. 336-323), who established a Macedonian empire. By...
George Routledge, 1934. — 302 p. Alexander the Great was an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia, established the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. By turns charismatic and ruthless, brilliant and power hungry, diplomatic and bloodthirsty, Alexander inspired such loyalty in his men they’d follow...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 185 p. This research takes an integrative approach to the study of Hellenistic cult and cultic practices in an important part of western Asia by employing a combination of archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence. Although any thorough investigation of Seleukid religion would prove illuminating in itself, this research uses religion as a lens...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 441 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 164). Das Seleukidenreich erstreckte sich in seiner Blütephase im 3. Jahrhundert v.Chr. vom Hellespont bis an den Hindukusch; kein anderes hellenistisches Königreich vereinte eine ähnliche Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Völker und Kulturen...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 320 p. This book presents a translation, with commentary, of a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. Book 10 of Curtius' Histories covers the reign of terror and mutiny that followed upon Alexander's return from India; and offers the fullest account of the power struggle that began in Babylon immediately after his...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 225 p. Alexander the Great is considered one of the most successful commanders of all time and was known to be undefeated in battle. He is mentioned in the Bible as well as the Qur'an, and is on the shortest of short lists whenever the world's best military leaders are cataloged. When asked to name other great military leaders, Caesar reportedly said...
Westholme Publishing, 2014. — 224 p. A Reconstruction of Ptolemy I’s History of Alexander’s Conquests, a Primary Source Cited in Later Books That Disappeared More Than One Thousand Years Ago. Alexander the Great is well known as one of the first great empire builders of the ancient world. Among those fellow Macedonian officers who accompanied Alexander in his epic conquests...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. — 328 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 205). A highly detailed political study of Sicily between the death of Agathocles in 289 BC and the end of the First Punic War in 241 BC. Efrem Zambon traces not only the complex course of events, including the Sicilian expedition of Pyrrhus, and the reign of Hiero of Syracuse, but also the development of the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. - 248 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics).
Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra (30 B.C.), Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 409 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 29). Never before has there appeared in English such a collection of essays concerning Alexander the Great's legacy in world literature. From Greek and Latin works of the Classical Period through Medieval texts in Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic and Hebrew, as well the European languages,...
Warszawa, PIW, 1967. — 431 s. Opowieść o tym, co się działo między śmiercią Aleksandra a podbojem Grecji przez barbarzyńskich Rzymian. Świetnie napisana, taki językiem powinno pisać się wszystkie podręczniki. Co prawda wymieszali mi się dokładnie wszyscy Antygonowie, Demetriusze i inni Antiochowie, ale obraz epoki pozostał. To właśnie w tych 250 latach powstało to „coś”, na...
Skopje: Makedonska Iskra, 2010. — 248 p. Ancient sources have shown that the ancestors of the so-called “ancient Greeks” arrived in the Balkans around the 11th century BC but under a different name. Initially they were called Dorians (Herodotus, I, 56). They were not called Greeks, Hellenes, Greki, or Romai around the 7th century B.C., as they claim they were called in Homer’s...
Монография. — Санкт-Петербург: типография Академии наук, 1738. — 224 с. Последним исследованием первого российского академика-гуманитария Г.З. Байера стала работа, посвященная Центральной Азии. Ее полное название: «История Бактрийского царства греков, в которой вместе с этим излагается древняя история греческих колоний в Индии» («Historia regni Graecorum Bactriani in qua simul...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 890 с. — (Великие империи мира). Книга Эдвина Роберта Бивена посвяшена истории самого обширного и могущественного государства эллинистического мира, основанного Селевком I Никатором на Ближнем Востоке после распада империи Александра Македонского. Историк рассматривает политическое и административное устройство государства Селевкидов, описывает...
Пер. с франц. Л. М. Глускиной. — М.: Наука, 1985. — 264 с. Посмертное издание классического труда по истории крупнейшего эллинистического государства на территории Западной Азии. Автор анализирует экономические, социальные и политические институты, а также формы государственных культов в этой державе. Предисловие автора. Царская власть. Наименования державы. Характерные черты...
Пер. с франц. Л. М. Глускиной. — М.: Наука, 1985. — 264 с. Посмертное издание классического труда по истории крупнейшего эллинистического государства на территории Западной Азии. Автор анализирует экономические, социальные и политические институты, а также формы государственных культов в этой державе. Предисловие автора. Царская власть. Наименования державы. Характерные черты...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1985. — 264 с. Посмертное издание классического труда по истории крупнейшего эллинистического государства на территории Западной Азии. Автор анализирует экономические, социальные и политические институты, а также формы государственных культов в этой державе.
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1985. — 264 с. Посмертное издание классического труда по истории крупнейшего эллинистического государства на территории Западной Азии. Автор анализирует экономические, социальные и политические институты, а также формы государственных культов в этой державе.
Пер. с англ. Т. Б. Менской. – М.: Мосты культуры; Иерусалим: Гешарим, 2000. – 382 с. – (Библиотека Флавиана).
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Элиас Дж. Бикерман (1897–1981) – выдающийся специалист по истории античности, выходец из России (настоящее имя – Илья Иосифович Бикерман), ученик академика М. И. Ростовцева. После эмиграции работал в Германии, во Франции, а во время войны перебрался...
Москва: Наука, 1983. — 326 с. В книге исследуется ряд отраслей интеллигентного труда в греческих полисах III - II вв. до н.э. Основное внимание уделяется представителям массовых интеллигентных профессий - преподавателям, врачам, архитекторам, землемерам. Освещаются материальные условия различных групп образованных специалистов, система профессионального образования, организация...
М.: Наука, 1983. - 323 с.
В книге исследуется ряд отраслей интеллигентного труда в греческих полисах III - II вв. до н. э. Основное внимание уделяется представителям массовых интеллигентных профессий - преподавателям, врачам, архитекторам, землемерам. Освещаются материальные условия различных групп образованных специалистов, система профессионального образования, организация...
М.: Наука, 1983. - 326 с.
В книге исследуется ряд отраслей интеллигентного труда в греческих полисах III - II вв. до н. э. Основное внимание уделяется представителям массовых интеллигентных профессий - преподавателям, врачам, архитекторам, землемерам. Освещаются материальные условия различных групп образованных специалистов, система профессионального образования, организация...
М.: Наука, 1969. — 320 с. Сборник статей, входящий в серию работ по истории рабства, подготавливаемую сектором древней истории Института всеобщей истории АН СССР, раскрывает перед читателем интересную и характерную картину социально-экономической жизни эллинистического мира. Статьи данной книги посвящены рабовладельческим отношениям эллинистической эпохи в государствах...
СПб.: ИЦ «Гуманитарная Академия», 2005. — 576 с. — (Studia classica). — ISBN: 5-93762-022-4 Монография О. Л. Габелко является первым в современной историографии основательным исследованием, посвящённым истории Вифинского царства. Вифиния – сравнительно небольшое государство, располагавшееся на северо-западе Малой Азии, – хотя никогда и не выходила на ведущие позиции в политике...
СПб.: ИЦ «Гуманитарная Академия», 2005. – 576 с. – (Studia classica). ISBN: 5-93762-022-4 Монография О. Л. Габелко является первым в современной историографии основательным исследованием, посвящённым истории Вифинского царства. Вифиния – сравнительно небольшое государство, располагавшееся на северо-западе Малой Азии, – хотя никогда и не выходила на ведущие позиции в политике и...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2005. — 576 с. — (Studia classica). — ISBN: 5-93762-022-4. Монография О. Л. Габелко является первым в современной историографии основательным исследованием, посвящённым истории Вифинского царства. Вифиния – сравнительно небольшое государство, располагавшееся на северо-западе Малой Азии, – хотя никогда и не выходила на ведущие позиции в политике и...
СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2005. — 576 с.: ил. — (Studia classica). — ISBN 5-93762-022-4. Монография О. Л. Габелко является первым в современной историографии основательным исследованием, посвященным истории Вифинского царства. Вифиния — сравнительно небольшое государство, располагавшееся на северо-западе Малой Азии, — хотя никогда и не выходила на ведущие позиции в политике...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 304 с. — (Всемирная история). Эта монография — первая попытка комплексного междисциплинарного исследования, посвящённого древней истории Азербайджана. В ней детально рассматривается происхождение страны и её правящей династии, а также обосновывается концепция, согласно которой Азербайджан возник сразу после распада Ассирийской империи. Хотя в названии работы...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 456 с. с ил. и карт. Книга посвящена узловым проблемам раннего эллинизма, хронологически совпадающего с годами жизни и деятельности Александра Македонского вплоть до распада его державы. Освещаются причины социально-экономического характера, толкнувшие греков и македонян на завоевание Востока. Прослеживаются этапы греко-македонской восточной кампании....
М.: Наука, 1980. – 456 с. с ил. и карт.
Книга посвящена узловым проблемам раннего эллинизма, хронологически совпадающего с годами жизни и деятельности Александра Македонского вплоть до распада его державы. Освещаются причины социально-экономического характера, толкнувшие греков и македонян на завоевание Востока. Прослеживаются этапы греко-македонской восточной кампании....
М.: Наука, 1980. — 456 с.: ил. и карт. Книга посвящена узловым проблемам раннего эллинизма, хронологически совпадающего с годами жизни и деятельности Александра Македонского вплоть до распада его державы. Освещаются причины социально-экономического характера, толкнувшие греков и македонян на завоевание Востока. Прослеживаются этапы греко-македонской восточной кампании....
М.: Наука, 1992. — 389 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009062-Х. Том посвящен изучению теоретических вопросов истории эллинизма, проблемам культуры и искусства. Рассмотрены характерные черты эллинизма на Востоке, проблемы полиса и монархии в государстве Селевкидов, землевладения в Понтийском царстве, а также эллинизм в Египте, Риме и Галлии. Отдельные статьи посвящены проблемам эллинистической...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2010. — 352 с. — (Историческая библиотека) — ISBN 978-5-17-063297-8, 978-5-271-25911-1. В течение почти ста лет, между 360 и 270 гг. до н. э., Македония была одним из наиболее динамичных государств мира. Под руководством царя Филиппа II ее могущество возросло настолько, что она стала доминировать над своими балканскими и греческими соседями. При его сыне...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2010. — 352 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-17-063297-8, 978-5-271-25911-1. Автор заявляет, что "цель данной книги — выяснить, как возникла империя Александра Великого. Это требует рассмотрения Македонского царства и деятельности Филиппа. Затем он намерен "исследовать причины распада империи, поскольку именно это наиболее значительный результат...
М.: Астрель, АСТ, 2010. — 352 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-063297-8, 978-5-271-25911-1. Автор заявляет, что "цель данной книги — выяснить, как возникла империя Александра Великого. Это требует рассмотрения Македонского царства и деятельности Филиппа. Затем он намерен "исследовать причины распада империи, поскольку именно это наиболее значительный результат...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 400 с.: ил. — (Новая античная библиотека. Источники). Книга посвящена переписке одного из блистательных полководцев и государственных деятелей древности – Александра III Великого, царя Македонского. Эта личность всегда была и поныне остается в фокусе внимания многих историков, писателей, политиков, религиоведов, искусствоведов и культурологов. Настоящее...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 400 с.: ил. — (Новая античная библиотека. Источники). Книга посвящена переписке одного из блистательных полководцев и государственных деятелей древности – Александра III Великого, царя Македонского. Эта личность всегда была и поныне остается в фокусе внимания многих историков, писателей, политиков, религиоведов, искусствоведов и культурологов. Настоящее...
Р. -на-Д.: Феникс, 1995. - 252 с.
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Труд Дройзена является знаменитым: трехтомная "История" осуществила подлинный прорыв в науке, открыв для детального ознакомления тот сравнительно поздние период античной истории, о котором до того практически мало что знали и в котором видели лишь хаотическое...
Р. -на-Д.: Феникс, 1995. - 542 с.
Труд Дройзена является знаменитым: трехтомная "История" осуществила подлинный прорыв в науке, открыв для детального ознакомления тот сравнительно поздние период античной истории, о котором до того практически мало что знали и в котором видели лишь хаотическое нагромождение войн, династических распрей и политических переворотов.
Р. -на-Д.: Феникс, 1995. - 575 с.
Труд Дройзена является знаменитым: трехтомная "История" осуществила подлинный прорыв в науке, открыв для детального ознакомления тот сравнительно поздние период античной истории, о котором до того практически мало что знали и в котором видели лишь хаотическое нагромождение войн, династических распрей и политических переворотов.
Р. -на-Д.: Феникс, 1995. - 1269 с.
Труд Дройзена является знаменитым: трехтомная "История" осуществила подлинный прорыв в науке, открыв для детального ознакомления тот сравнительно поздние период античной истории, о котором до того практически мало что знали и в котором видели лишь хаотическое нагромождение войн, династических распрей и политических переворотов.
Монография. — М.: Академический Проект; Константа, 2011. — 623 с. — (Исторические технологии). — ISBN 978-5-8291-1304-9; 978-5-902844-34-1. "История эллинизма" Дройзена — первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в...
В 3-х т. — Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1995. — 1760 с. — ISBN: 5-85880-257-5, 5-85880-079-3, 5-85880-263-Х. "История эллинизма" Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
В 3-х т. — Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1995. — 1760 с. — ISBN: 5-85880-257-5, 5-85880-079-3, 5-85880-263-Х. "История эллинизма" Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Академический Проект; Киров: Константа, 2011. — 623 с. — (Технологии истории). "История эллинизма " Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Академический Проект; Киров: Константа, 2011. — 518 с. — (Технологии истории). "История эллинизма " Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Академический Проект; Киров: Константа, 2011. — 518 с. — (Технологии истории). "История эллинизма " Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Академический Проект; Киров: Константа, 2011. — 619 с. — (Технологии истории). "История эллинизма " Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Пер. с нем. — М.: Академический Проект; Киров: Константа, 2011. — 619 с. — (Технологии истории). "История эллинизма " Дройзена - первая и до сих пор единственная фундаментальная работа, открывшая для читателя тот сравнительно поздний период античной истории (от возвышения Македонии при царях Филиппе и Александре до вмешательства Рима в греческие дела), о котором до того...
Казань: Казанский Университет, 1980. — 192 с. В монографии рассматривается история сложного, напряжённого и малоизученного периода международных отношений – III века до н. э. Показана освободительная борьба греков против македонского засилья, ожесточённые захватнические войны эллинистических государств за территории, богатства и рабов. Дана характеристика армии, дипломатии,...
Монография. — Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1980. — 192 с. В монографии рассматривается история сложного, напряженного и малоизученного периода международных отношений - III века до н. э. Показана освободительная борьба греков против македонского засилья, ожесточенные захватнические войны эллинистических государств за территории, богатства и рабов. Дана...
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1960. - 367 с.
Настоящая монография посвящена некоторым основным проблемам социально-экономической истории Египта позднеэллинистической эпохи - с конца III в. до середина I в. до н.э.
М.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1960. — 460 с.
Настоящая монография посвящена некоторым основным проблемам социально-экономической истории Египта позднеэллинистической эпохи - с конца III в. до середина I в. до н.э.
Главная задача настоящей работы - анализ земельных отношений в связи с классовой структурой и классовой борьбой II-I вв. до н.э., изучение положения...
М.: Наука, 1969. — 246 с.
Книга — очередной выпуск серии работ по истории рабства, подготавливаемой сектором древней истории Института всеобщей истории АН СССР. Она включает три очерка: "Формы зависимости в эллинистическую эпоху", "Дельфийские манумиссии как источник по истории рабства в древней Греции" и "Пиратство в Восточном Средиземноморье в III в. до н.э."
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Коллективная монография. — М.: Наука, 1969. — 244 с. Книга — очередной выпуск серии работ по истории рабства, подготавливаемой сектором древней истории Института всеобщей истории АН СССР. Она включает три очерка: "Формы зависимости в эллинистическую эпоху", "Дельфийские манумиссии как источник по истории рабства в древней Греции" и "Пиратство в Восточном Средиземноморье в III...
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М.: Греко-латинский кабинет, 1993. — 379 с. — ISBN: 5-87245-007-9. В книге рассматривается напряжённый и драматический период в истории Восточного Средиземноморья – завоевание эллинистических государств Римом. Перед читателем предстает эпоха грандиозных войн и интенсивной дипломатической деятельности. Показана специфика войны как основного средства межгосударственных отношений,...
Артемовск: Военно-исторический клуб "Ветеран", 2002. — 44 с. с илл. Военно-исторический альманах «Новый солдат» №188 Автор текста alexsb16 Военно-исторический альманах Новый Солдат выпускается Артемовским историческим клубом "Ветеран". В нём Вы сможете не только прочесть, но и увидеть как фотографии, так и красочные рисунки тем или иным образом касающиеся мировой военной...
Тула: Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л.Н. Толстого, 2019. — 241 с. В монографии рассматривается один из важных, но мало исследованных компонентов стратегического инструментария Александра Македонского, которым является координированное наступление – особая форма применения войска, предусматривающая достижение цели военной кампании посредством...
СПб.: Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2010. – 398 с. – (Историческая библиотека). ISBN: 978-5-8465-0702-9 (Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ) ISBN: 978-5-98187-475-8 (Нестор-История) В монографии рассматривается политическая история Пергамского царства, образовавшегося в Малой Азии после походов Александра Македонского и развивавшегося в III–II вв. до...
Санкт-Петербург: Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2010. — 400 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-8465-0702-9 (Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ); ISBN 978-5-98187-475-8 (Нестор-История). В монографии рассматривается политическая история Пергамского царства, образовавшегося в Малой Азии после походов Александра Македонского и развивавшегося в...
СПб.: Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2010. — 398 с. — (Историческая библиотека) — ISBN: 978-5-8465-0702-9, ISBN: 978-5-98187-475-8. В монографии рассматривается политическая история Пергамского царства, образовавшегося в Малой Азии после походов Александра Македонского и развивавшегося в III–II вв. до н. э. до завоевания его Римом. Большое внимание...
М.: АСТ; СПб.: Terra Fantastica, 2003. — 512 с.: 16 л. ил. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). — ISBN 5-17-012401-5; ISBN 5-7921-0563-4. Увлекательная книга, посвященная военной истории первой из империй Старого Света — Македонской. Царь Филипп превратил Македонию в мощнейшее государство Греции, а походы его сына Александра привели к расширению границ греческого мира вплоть до...
М.: Наука, 1979. - 295 с. В монографии рассматриваются основные проблемы истории греческого полиса на эллинистическом Востоке. На основании нарративных, археологических, эпиграфических и нумизматических источников выявляются масштабы греко-македонской колонизации Востока в период после завоеваний Александра Македонского, исследуются характер градостроительной деятельности...
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Перевод с польского. — М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1973. — 217 с. В книге повествуется о событиях I в. до н. э. Польский историк, основываясь на научных данных, живо и интересно рассказывает о царствовании последних царей из династии Птолемеев (Птолемея XII Авлета и его дочери Клеопатры VII), о выдвижении и гибели выдающихся деятелей Рима – Юлия Цезаря и...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1973. — 217 с. В книге повествуется о событиях I в. до н. э. Польский историк, основываясь на научных данных, живо и интересно рассказывает о царствовании последних царей из династии Птолемеев (Птолемея XII Авлета и его дочери Клеопатры VII), о выдвижении и гибели выдающихся деятелей Рима – Юлия Цезаря и Марка Антония, о сложных...
Благовещенск: Изд-во Благовещенского государственного педагогического университета, 2001. - 127 с.
Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов 1 курса отделения истории историко-филологического факультета и имеет целью помочь усвоить основные теоретические понятия по курсу истории Древнего Мира, а также составить представление о современном состоянии проблемы.
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Учебное пособие. — Благовещенск: Издательство БГПУ, 2005. — 196 с. — ISBN 5-8331-0084-4. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов 1 курса отделения истории историко-филологического факультета и имеет целью помочь усвоить основные теоретические понятия по курсу истории древнего мира, а также составить представление о современном состоянии проблемы. Введение. Территория....
Учебное пособие. – Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2005. – 196 с.
Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов 1 курса отделения истории историко-филологического факультета и имеет целью помочь усвоить основные теоретические понятия по курсу истории Древнего мира, а также составить представление о современном состоянии проблемы.
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Пер. с франц. Е. П. Чиковой. М. Наука, 1989. – 135 с.
Книга французского историка Пьера Левека посвящена истории, экономике и культуре эллинистической эпохи (конец IV–I в. до н. э. ), взаимосвязям эллинистического мира с государствами Востока и «варварской» периферией. Автором учтены достижения современной историографии, данные многочисленных археологических раскопок,...
Пер. с франц. Е. П. Чиковой. Коммент. и послесл. Г. А. Кошеленко. — М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1989. — 252 с.: ил. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). — ISBN: 5-02-016590-5. Книга французского историка Пьера Левека посвящена истории, экономике и культуре эллинистической эпохи (конец IV–I в. до н. э. ), взаимосвязям эллинистического мира с...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 288 с.
Александр Великий не оставил после себя наследника столь же гениального, как и он сам, и потому созданная им империя, о завоеваниях которой написано достаточно, быстро распалась. В настоящей книге прослеживается процесс этого распада, судьба разных частей великой империи, история их взлетов и падений, обретение и потеря ими независимости....
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 288 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5083-7. Александр Великий не оставил после себя наследника столь же гениального, как и он сам, и потому созданная им империя, о завоеваниях которой написано достаточно, быстро распалась. В настоящей книге прослеживается процесс этого распада, судьба разных частей великой империи, история их взлетов и падений, обретение и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 288 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5083-7. Александр Великий не оставил после себя наследника столь же гениального, как и он сам, и потому созданная им империя, о завоеваниях которой написано достаточно, быстро распалась. В настоящей книге прослеживается процесс этого распада, судьба разных частей великой империи, история их взлетов и падений, обретение и...
Монография. Отв. ред. Е.С. Голубцова. М.: Наука. Издательская фирма «Восточная литература», 1993. - 287 с. ISBN 5-02-017392 Монография посвящена тому трагическому для греков периоду, когда они вели неравную борьбу с царем соседней Македонии, знаменитым полководцем Александром. В центре работы — проблемы взаимоотношений греков и завоевателя, борьбы за свободу и стремления к...
Варна: Издателство МС, 2007. — 152 с. Историческите събития през Елинизма и Одесос Административно устройство и обществен живот Население и религия Градоустройство, отбранителна система и архитектура Некрополи, гробни съоръжения и надгробни паметници Търговия и занаяти Изкуство и култура Спорт и обществени игри Монетосечене
СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. — 347 с. Восточное Средиземноморье на всем протяжении истории человеческой цивилизации являлось постоянным очагом политической напряженности. Здесь всегда кипели политические страсти, бушевали войны, зарождались религии, сменяли друг друга цивилизации и решались судьбы государств и народов. Здесь во II в. до н. э. созданный гением Александра Македонского и...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2014. — 347 с. — ISBN 9785914199767 Восточное Средиземноморье на всем протяжении истории человеческой цивилизации являлось постоянным очагом политической напряженности. Здесь всегда кипели политические страсти, бушевали войны, зарождались религии, сменяли друг друга цивилизации и решались судьбы государств и народов. Здесь во II в. до н. э. созданный гением...
Нижний Новгород: ННГУ, 1994. — 140 с. — ISBN 5-230-04333-4. В книге исследуется наименее изученный отрезок истории Боспорского государства. Автор обобщает новый, археологический материал, полученный в результате раскопок последних лет и сопоставляет его с существующими научными гипотезами. Выводы подкрепляются и результатами собственных археологических исследований боспорского...
Нижний Новгород: ННГУ, 1994. — 140 с. — ISBN 5-230-04333-4
В книге исследуется наименее изученный отрезок истории Боспорского государства. Автор обобщает новый археологический материал, полученный в результате раскопок последних лет, и сопоставляет его с существующими научными гипотезами.
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Монография. – Нижний Новгород: Изд-во ННГУ, 1994. – 140 с.
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В книге исследуется наименее изученный отрезок истории Боспорского государства. Автор обобщает новый археологический материал, полученный в результате раскопок последних лет и сопоставляет его с существующими научными гипотезами. Выводы подкрепляются и результатами собственных археологических...
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М.: Альма Матер, 2023. Книга посвящена религии и культам эллинистической Коммагены (164/163 гг. до н. э. – 72 г. н. э.), небольшого государства в юго-восточной Анатолии, в эпоху правления Митридата I Каллиника (100-70 гг. до н. э.) и в особенности его сына – Антиоха I Теоса (69-34 гг. до н. э.). Первостепенное внимание в книге уделяется царскому и династическому культу...
Москва: Альма Матер, 2023. — 356 с. — (Эпохи. Древность. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-904993-95-5. Книга посвящена религии и культам эллинистической Коммагены (164/163 гг. до н.э. - 72 г. н.э.), небольшого государства в юго-восточной Анатолии, в эпоху правления Митридата I Каллиника (100-70 гг. до н.э.) и в особенности его сына - Антиоха I Теоса (69-34 гг. до н.э.)....
М.: Ладомир, 1997. — 1073 с. Описание: Вестник древней истории (общепринятое сокращение — ВДИ, англ. Journal of Ancient History) — важнейший академический советский и российский журнал, посвященный истории древнего мира. В настоящее время издается Институтом всеобщей истории Российской Академии наук. Журнал выходит с 1937 г. (регулярно — с 1946 г.); ежегодно выпускается четыре...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2008. — 122 с. — ISBN 978-5-288-04618-6. Монография представляет собой исследование крупной исторической проблемы, связанной с историей, политическим устройством и культурой Греко-бактрийского царства, одного из значительных и своеобразных эллинистических государств (III–II вв. до н. э.). Греко-бактрийское царство составило восточную часть...
СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2008. — 122 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-04618-6. Монография представляет собой исследование крупной исторической проблемы, связанной с историей, политическим устройством и культурой Греко-бактрийского царства, одного из значительных и своеобразных эллинистических государств (III–II вв. до н. э.). Греко-бактрийское царство составило...
СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2008. — 122 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-04618-6. Монография представляет собой исследование крупной исторической проблемы, связанной с историей, политическим устройством и культурой Греко-бактрийского царства, одного из значительных и своеобразных эллинистических государств (III–II вв. до н. э.). Греко-бактрийское царство составило...
Монография. — София: Университетско издателство " Св. Климент Охридски", 2002. — 197 с. . Д-р Костадин Рабаджиев е доцент по класическа археология в Софийския университет "Св. Климент Охридски". Монографията е неговият хабилитационен труд, посветен на елинистическа Тракия и на археологическия прочит на изворите за сакрална активност между елини и траки.
СПб.: Алетейя, 2019. — 432 с. — ISBN 978-5-907189-81-2. Данная монография - не учебник, не справочник и не «история эллинизма». Задача автора была иная – исследовать закономерности истории эллинизма, определить место и значение в истории античного рабовладельческого общества, включить в общий закономерный процесс исторического развития народов древности. В этом смысле...
М. ; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1950. — 386 с. Предлагаемый вниманию советского читателя труд доктора исторических наук профессора Абрама Борисовича Рановича «Эллинизм и его историческая роль» – последнее произведение этого выдающегося советского специалиста по истории древнего мира. От редакции Основные проблемы истории эллинизма Александр Македонский Войны диадохов и...
М. ; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1950. — 386 с. Предлагаемый вниманию советского читателя труд доктора исторических наук профессора Абрама Борисовича Рановича «Эллинизм и его историческая роль» – последнее произведение этого выдающегося советского специалиста по истории древнего мира. От редакции Основные проблемы истории эллинизма Александр Македонский Войны диадохов и...
М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1950. — 386 с. Предлагаемый вниманию советского читателя труд доктора исторических наук профессора Абрама Борисовича Рановича «Эллинизм и его историческая роль» – последнее произведение этого выдающегося советского специалиста по истории древнего мира. А. Б. Ранович готовил эту книгу в течение многих лет и закончил её в последних числах...
М. – Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1950. — 386 с. Предлагаемый вниманию советского читателя труд доктора исторических наук профессора Абрама Борисовича Рановича «Эллинизм и его историческая роль» – последнее произведение этого выдающегося советского специалиста по истории древнего мира. А. Б. Ранович готовил эту книгу в течение многих лет и закончил её в последних числах...
Москва: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1950. — 386 с. Предлагаемый вниманию советского читателя труд доктора исторических наук профессора Абрама Борисовича Рановича «Эллинизм и его историческая роль» – последнее произведение этого выдающегося советского специалиста по истории древнего мира. А. Б. Ранович готовил эту книгу в течение многих лет и закончил её в последних числах...
Ташкент: Медиа ланд, - 2002. - 93 с.
Данная книга посвящена походу А. Македонского в Бактрию и Согдиану 329-327 гг. до н.э. В ней на основании сопоставления комплекса данных представляется более точная, чем прежде локализация различных местностей упомянутых в античных источниках. Книга рассчитана на историков, археологов и всех интересующихся древней историей древнего...
М.: Наука, 2002. - 271 с. ISBN: 5-02-008806-4 Работа посвящена политической истории Боспорского царства, его взаимоотношениям с Римом, греческими городами Таврики и местными сармато-меотскими племенами в переломную эпоху его развития, совпавшую с рубежом нашей эры. На огромном археологическом, эпиграфическом и нумизматическом материале воссоздаются бурные события войн...
М.: Наука, 1996. — 348 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-02-009497-8 Книга посвящена социальной, экономической и политической истории Понта от образования независимого государства в 302 г. до н. э. до превращения в римскую провинцию. Рассматривается древнейшая история созданного династией Митридатидов государства, внутренняя и внешняя политика царей в Малой Азии и Причерноморье. Большое место...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Нижний Новгород: Изд-во Нижегородского госуниверситета, 2021. — 60 с. В пособии приводится программа дисциплины по выбору, даются темы для семинарских занятий и самостоятельной работы, список современной научной литературы, а также справочные материалы, включающие переводы источников, тексты для самостоятельной, аудиторной и индивидуальной работы...
М.: Прометей, 1998. – 172 с.
Монография посвящена исследованию наиболее известного федеративного государства Древней Греции в период его независимого развития (281–221 гг. до н. э.). В работе дается характеристика причин расцвета федерализма в эллинистическом Пелопоннесе, делается попытка реконструкции событий, связанных с территориальным ростом и возвышением Ахейского союза в...
М.: Прометей, 1989. — 172 с. Монография Сергея Кузьмича Сизова посвящена исследованию наиболее известного федеративного государства Древней Греции в период его независимого развития (281—221 гг. до н. э.). В работе дается характеристика причин расцвета федерализма в эллинистическом Пелопоннесе, делается попытка реконструкции событий, связанных с территориальным ростом и...
Монография. — М.: Русский фонд содействия образованию и науке, 2013. — (Приложение No 5 к журналу «Аристей. Вестник классической филологии и античной истории»). — ISBN: 978-5-91244-099-1. Государство Селевкидов - одно из наиболее значимых государственных образований эпохи эллинизма, унаследовавшее восточные (персидские и ассиро-вавилонские) и западные (греческие и...
М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2013. — ISBN: 978-5-91244-099-1. Государство Селевкидов - одно из наиболее значимых государственных образований эпохи эллинизма, унаследовавшее восточные (персидские и ассиро-вавилонские) и западные (греческие и македонские) традиции. Его появление и начальное формирование связано с именем диадоха Селевка, который в конце...
СПб.: Журнал Нева, Летний сад, 2003. — 480 с. В книгу вошли труды выдающегося отечественного востоковеда, академика В.В. Струве, посвященный Манефону Севеннитскому - Отцу египетской истории. Манефон, египтянин из Севеннита, живший во времена Птолемея Филадельфа и ставший верховным жрецом в Илиополе, через несколько десятилетий после завоевания Египта Александром Македонским...
Пер. с англ. С. А. Лясковского. Предисл. С. И. Ковалёва. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 375 с.
Английский историк Тарн принадлежит к числу известных специалистов по истории эллинизма. Его книга «Эллинистическая цивилизация» написана на основании последних данных, взятых из большого количества источников и специальных исследований по отдельным проблемам...
Пер. с англ. С. А. Лясковского. Предисл. С. И. Ковалёва. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1949. — 375 с.
Английский историк Тарн принадлежит к числу известных специалистов по истории эллинизма. Его книга «Эллинистическая цивилизация» написана на основании последних данных, взятых из большого количества источников и специальных исследований по отдельным проблемам...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1948. — 365 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). Сборник статей под редакцией академика И.И. Толстого. Выпускаемая книга стремится осветить состояние античной техники в тот период истории Греции, который принято называть "эллинистическим". Хронологически этот период падает на отрезок времени от смерти Александра Македонского до момента образования римского...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1948. — 365 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). Выпускаемая книга стремится осветить состояние античной техники в тот период истории Греции, который принято называть "эллинистическим". Хронологически этот период падает на отрезок времени от смерти Александра Македонского до момента образования римского принципата. "Эллинистическим" назван он в силу одной...
Москва–Ленинград: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1940. – 180 с. + 50 табл. (Памятники культуры и искусства в собраниях Эрмитажа. I.).
Эта работа посвящена вопросу о культуре и искусстве греко-бактрийского царства, государственного образования, сложившегося на территории Бактрии и связанных с нею областей Средней Азии в III в. до н. э. и просуществовавшего под главенством...
СПб.: Изд-во Гос. Эрмитажа, 2007. — 512 с. Каталог посвящен Восточному походу Александра Великого и его последствиям для Востока и Запада. Книга рассказывает о стремительном распространении греческой цивилизации —образа жизни, письменности, произведений искусства, поклонения греческим богам и героям, о глубоких переменах в сознании народов. В фокусе внимания исследователей-...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука». 1972. — 144 с.
Автор книги, известный английский археолог, в живой и непринужденной форме рассказывает о последствиях похода Александра Македонского на восток - переменах в ходе развития культуры и искусства.
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1972. — 144 с. Автор книги, известный английский археолог, в живой и непринужденной форме рассказывает о последствиях похода Александра Македонского на восток - переменах в ходе развития культуры и искусства. Б. Я. Ставиский. Предисловие Предисловие автора Пожар Дворец Что было до пожара После пожара 1. Новые открытия в Бактрии...
Смоленск: Русич, 2010. — 480 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-8138-0955-2, 978-1-85227-134-5. Известный британский автор выдвигает гипотезу о том, что Александр Македонский был убит, а точнее, отравлен в возрасте 32 лет во время поминального пира в честь его друга Гефестиона. Он предлагает свою версию ответа на вопрос: кому и зачем понадобилась смерть великого...
Смоленск: Русич, 2010. — 480 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-8138-0955-2, 978-1-85227-134-5. Монография. Известный британский автор выдвигает гипотезу о том, что Александр Македонский был убит, а точнее, отравлен в возрасте 32 лет во время поминального пира в честь его друга Гефестиона. Он предлагает свою версию ответа на вопрос: кому и зачем понадобилась смерть...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. - 350 с.
ISBN: 5-9524-0606-8
В книге военного историка Дж.Фуллера на основе богатого наследия философов, литераторов и полководцев воссоздается история не имеющих аналогов военных кампаний Александра Македонского. Схемы баталий, описание технического оснащения и вооружения войск стран Древнего мира иллюстрируют тактические и стратегические задачи...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. - 350 с.
ISBN: 5-9524-0606-8
В книге военного историка Дж.Фуллера на основе богатого наследия философов, литераторов и полководцев воссоздается история не имеющих аналогов военных кампаний Александра Македонского. Схемы баталий, описание технического оснащения и вооружения войск стран Древнего мира иллюстрируют тактические и стратегические задачи...
Перев. с нем. Ю. Г. Виноградова. – М.: Ладомир, 1999. – 416 с. – М.: Ладомир, 1999. – 416 с.
ISBN 5-86218-339-6
В 338 году до P. X. в битве при Херонее Афины потерпели поражение от македонского владыки Филиппа II и его сына Александра, прозванного позже Великим. Однако это событие не стало концом афинской истории. В наступившую вслед за тем эпоху эллинизма Афины оставались...
Перев. с нем. Ю. Г. Виноградова. – М.: Ладомир, 1999. – 416 с. – М.: Ладомир, 1999. – 416 с.
ISBN 5-86218-339-6
В 338 году до P. X. в битве при Херонее Афины потерпели поражение от македонского владыки Филиппа II и его сына Александра, прозванного позже Великим. Однако это событие не стало концом афинской истории. В наступившую вслед за тем эпоху эллинизма Афины оставались...
Античный мир и археология, Вып.11, Саратов, 2002
Философские взгляды Посидония (о «космополисе», «стоическом мудреце», «всеобщей симпатии»), разработка им этиологического принципа историописания (история — это не конгломерат сведений о различных странах и народах, а объяснение мира), следование принципу личного присутствия для сбора информации позволили ему реализовать научный...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2013. — 432 с. — (Historia Militaris). Автор данной книги, известный специалист по истории эллинизма, анализирует войну как социальное явление, в значительной мере сформировавшее эллинистический мир. В монографии детально рассмотрено влияние военных конфликтов различной природы, масштабов и продолжительности на все стороны жизни греческих полисов и...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2013. — 432 с. — (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-90598-794-6. Автор данной книги, известный специалист по истории эллинизма, анализирует войну как социальное явление, в значительной мере сформировавшее эллинистический мир. В монографии детально рассмотрено влияние военных конфликтов различной природы, масштабов и продолжительности на все стороны жизни...
М.: Альпина Диджитал, 2020. — 659 c. В своей новой книге видный исследователь Античности Ангелос Ханиотис рассматривает эпоху эллинизма в неожиданном ракурсе. Он не ограничивает период эллинизма традиционными хронологическими рамками – от завоеваний Александра Македонского до падения царства Птолемеев (336–30 гг. до н. э.), но говорит о «долгом эллинизме», то есть предлагает...
Казань : Типо-литография Императорского Университета, 1907. - 510 с.
Торговля по Нилу в эпоху Птолемеев и римлян (до Диоклетинана)
Предметы вывоза из нильской Эфиопии и ввоз в нее из Египта
Очерки истории Эфиопии в греко-римскую эпоху
Развитие торговых отношений с Эфиопией по Нилу (прил. Вопрос о торговле золотом из Западной Африки)
Торговля в бассейне Красного моря и...
Казань: Типо-литография Императорского Университета, 1907. — 510 с.
В монографии рассматривается торговая политика Египта при разных правителях, экспорт импорт,торговые пути, пошлины в указанный период.
Торговля по Нилу в эпоху Птолемеев и римлян (до Диоклетиана).
Предметы вывоза из нильской Эфиопии и ввоз в нее из Египта.
Очерки истории Эфиопии в греко-римскую эпоху....
Пер. с англ. В. Л. Вихновича; науч. ред. и вступ. ст. А. Г. Грушевого. – СПб.: ИЦ «Гуманитарная Академия», 2010. – 638 с. – (Studia classica). ISBN: 978-5-93762-041-5 Книга известного историка российского происхождения В. Чериковера, эмигрировавшего из России в 20-е годы XX века и гораздо более известного на Западе, чем у себя на родине, посвящена истории и культуре евреев...
Издательство: Гуманитарная Академия, 2010. — 640 с. пер. с англ. В. Л. Вихновича Книга известного историка российского происхождения В. Чериковера, эмигрировавшего из России в 20-е годы XX века и гораздо более известного на Западе, чем у себя на родине, посвящена истории и культуре евреев эпохи эллинизма, т. е. охватывает период от походов Александра Македонского до появления...
Москва: Вече, 2018. — 288 с. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-4484-0518-1. Биография этого царя - непрерывные военные действия. Филипп V постоянно сражался на суше и на море, расширял границы страны… а затем потерял всё, столкнувшись с Римской республикой. Но поражение не было окончательным. Филипп вновь поднялся с колен, принялся воссоздавать армию и попытался вернуть Македонию...
Пер. с фр. Н. Шевченко. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория; М.: АСТ, 2008. — 479 с. — (Великие цивилизации). — ISBN: 978-5-9757-0395-8. — ISBN: 978-5-9713-9608-6. В книге французского историка Ф. Шаму эллинистическая цивилизация представлена не эпохой упадка традиций классической Греции, не простым переходом через хаотичную и кровавую военную историю от греческого востока к латинскому...
Пер. с фр. Н. Шевченко. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория; М.: АСТ, 2008. — 479 с. — (Великие цивилизации). — ISBN 978-5-9757-0395-8. — ISBN 978-5-9713-9608-6. В книге французского историка Ф. Шаму эллинистическая цивилизация представлена не эпохой упадка традиций классической Греции, не простым переходом через хаотичную и кровавую военную историю от греческого востока к латинскому...
Пер. с фр. Н. Шевченко. — Екатеринбург: У-Фактория; М.: АСТ, 2008. — 479 с. — (Великие цивилизации). — ISBN: 978-5-9757-0395-8. — ISBN: 978-5-9713-9608-6. В книге французского историка Ф. Шаму эллинистическая цивилизация представлена не эпохой упадка традиций классической Греции, не простым переходом через хаотичную и кровавую военную историю от греческого востока к латинскому...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2010. — 304 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-39569-9.
В IV веке до н.э. случилось одно из тех военных чудес, что определяют ход истории. На протяжении жизни всего одного поколения дикая и нищая Македония, дотоле прозябавшая на краю цивилизованного мира, неожиданно для всех превратилась в сильнейшее государство Европы, объединив под своим началом всю Грецию. Этим...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2010. - 304 с. - ISBN: 978-5-699-39569-9
В IV веке до н.э. случилось одно из тех военных чудес, что определяет ход истории. На протяжении жизни всего одного поколения дикая и нищая Македония, дотоле прозябавшая на краю цивилизованного мира, неожиданно для всех превратилась в сильнейшее государство Европы, объединив под своим началом всю Грецию. Этим возвышением...
М.: Эксмо, 2010. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-39019-9.
В книге освещаются походы Александра Македонского. За 11 лет он, пройдя с войском тысячи километров по бескрайним пустыням, по горам, равнинам и лесам, сделался господином невиданной по размаху империи, протянувшейся от Балкан до Индии. С помощью карт, планов, иллюстраций и реконструкций в предлагаемой вниманию читателя книге...
Переводчик: Колина А. — М.: Эксмо, 2010. — 256 с. - (Военная история человечества) — ISBN: 978-5-699-39019-9. В книге освещаются походы Александра Македонского. За 11 лет он, пройдя с войском тысячи километров по бескрайним пустыням, по горам, равнинам и лесам, сделался господином невиданной по размаху империи, протянувшейся от Балкан до Индии. С помощью карт, планов,...
М.: Эксмо, 2010. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-39019-9. В книге освещаются походы Александра Македонского. За 11 лет он, пройдя с войском тысячи километров по бескрайним пустыням, по горам, равнинам и лесам, сделался господином невиданной по размаху империи, протянувшейся от Балкан до Индии. С помощью карт, планов, иллюстраций и реконструкций в предлагаемой вниманию читателя книге...
Казань: Издательство КГУ, 1976. — 523 с. В данной работе изложение восточных походов греко-македонских войск не имеет самодовлеющего значения. Это лишь исторический фон для рассмотрения основной проблемы: восточной политики Александра Македонского. Буржуазные историки не выработали понятия «восточная политика». Они ограничиваются изложением отдельных частных мероприятий в...
Казань: Издательство КГУ, 1976. — 523 с. В данной работе изложение восточных походов греко-македонских войск не имеет самодовлеющего значения. Это лишь исторический фон для рассмотрения основной проблемы: восточной политики Александра Македонского. Буржуазные историки не выработали понятия «восточная политика». Они ограничиваются изложением отдельных частных мероприятий в...
Казань: Издательство КГУ, 1976. — 523 с. В данной работе изложение восточных походов греко-македонских войск не имеет самодовлеющего значения. Это лишь исторический фон для рассмотрения основной проблемы: восточной политики Александра Македонского. Буржуазные историки не выработали понятия «восточная политика». Они ограничиваются изложением отдельных частных мероприятий в...
Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1984. — 223 с.
Книга завершает цикл исследований автора, опубликованных в Издательстве Казанского университета по македонской тематике. "История античной Македонии", часть 1, 1960; часть 2, 1963; "Восточная политика Александра Македонского", 1976. На базе комплексного изучения источников и литературы вопроса рассматриватся процесс...
Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1984. — 223 с. Книга завершает цикл исследований автора, опубликованных в Издательстве Казанского университета по македонской тематике. "История античной Македонии", часть 1, 1960; часть 2, 1963; "Восточная политика Александра Македонского", 1976. На базе комплексного изучения источников и литературы вопроса рассматриватся процесс...
Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1984. — 226 с. Книга завершает цикл исследований автора, опубликованных в Издательстве Казанского университета по македонской тематике. "История античной Македонии", часть 1, 1960; часть 2, 1963; "Восточная политика Александра Македонского", 1976. На базе комплексного изучения источников и литературы вопроса рассматривается процесс...
Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1984. — 226 с. Книга завершает цикл исследований автора, опубликованных в Издательстве Казанского университета по македонской тематике. "История античной Македонии", часть 1, 1960; часть 2, 1963; "Восточная политика Александра Македонского", 1976. На базе комплексного изучения источников и литературы вопроса рассматривается процесс...
Казань: Издательство Казанского университета, 1984. — 223 с. Книга завершает цикл исследований автора, опубликованных в Издательстве Казанского университета по македонской тематике. "История античной Македонии", часть 1, 1960; часть 2, 1963; "Восточная политика Александра Македонского", 1976. На базе комплексного изучения источников и литературы вопроса рассматриватся процесс...
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