Ventures into Greek History

Name: Ventures into Greek History
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ISBN: 9780198149286

ISBN-10: 019814928X

ISBN-13: 9780198149286

Edition: 1994

Authors: Ian Worthington

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Ventures into Greek History is a collection of essays by seventeen international scholars dealing mainly with fourth-century Greek and Macedonian history and archaeology--especially the period of Philip II and Alexander the Great. The book is dedicated to Professor N.G.L. Hammond, and includes numerous illustrations and maps. All Greek and Latin quotations are translated.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/19/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Nicholas Hammond, CBE, DSO, FBA
Vita of Nicholas Hammond
Bibliography of Nicholas Hammond
Thucydides I. 105-108: The Long Walls and Their Significance	p. 3
Heracleides of Pontus and the Past: Fact or Fiction?	p. 15
Supernatural Paraphernalia in Polybius' Histories	p. 28
Diodorus' Sources for the Sacred War in Book 16	p. 43
Didymea	p. 70
Alexander's Propaganda Machine: Callisthenes as the Ultimate Source for Arrian, Anabasis 1-3	p. 89
The Production of Coinage from Archelaus to Perdiccas III and the Evolution of Argead Macedonia	p. 105
The Kausia: Macedonia or Indian?	p. 135
Apollonia Hellenis	p. 159
The Kalyx Krater of Sevaste in Pieria	p. 189
Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon's Exile	p. 215
The Diplomatic Skills of Philip II	p. 228
Agis III: Revisions and Reflections	p. 258
The Deification of Alexander the Great: A Note	p. 293
The Harpalus Affair and the Greek Response to the Macedonian Hegemony	p. 307
Antipater: Manager of Kings	p. 331
Olympias, Adea Eurydice, and the End of the Argead Dynasty	p. 357
Bibliography	p. 381
Index	p. 399
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