Ancient Historiography on War and Empire

297 Pages·2016·3.307 MB·English

by  Timothy Otis Howe, Sabine Muller, Richard Stoneman

Ancient Historiography
on War and Empire
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Ancient Historiography
on War and Empire
edited by
Timothy Howe, Sabine Müller
and Richard Stoneman
Oxford & Philadelphia
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Cover: Relief in the courtyard of the Side Museum, Turkey. Photograph by Tim Howe.
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Contents
List of contributors ..............................................................................................................vii
Abbreviations .........................................................................................................................ix
Foreword: Ancient historiography and ancient history ................................................xi
Part I: Introduction
1. Why history? On the emergence of historical writing ...............................................2
Mark Munn
Part II: Persia and Greece
2. The political and the divine in Achaemenid royal inscriptions ..............................26
Eran Almagor
3. Cyrus the Great and the sacrifi ces for a dead king....................................................55
Josef Wiesehöfer
4. The horse and the stag: Philistus’ view of tyrants ....................................................62
Frances Pownall
Part III: Macedon
5. Alexander II of Macedon ................................................................................................80
William Greenwalt
6. ‘The giver of the bride, the bridegroom, and the bride’: a study
of the murder of Philip II and its aftermath ...............................................................92
Waldemar Heckel, Timothy Howe and Sabine Müller
7. Royal tombs and cult of the dead kings in Early Hellenistic Macedonia .............125
Franca Landucci Gattinoni
Part IV: The Empires of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi
8. The fi nancial administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great:
an interpretation of two passages from Arrian’s Anabasis .....................................136
Maxim M. Kholod
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vi Contents
9. The Eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians ...........................149
Hugh Bowden
10. The casualty fi gures of Alexander’s army ...............................................................169
Jacek Rzepka
11. Alexander’s battles against Persians in the art of the Successors ......................177
Olga Palagia
12. How the hoopoe got his crest: refl ections on Megasthenes’
stories of India .............................................................................................................188
Richard Stoneman
13. Creating the king: the image of Alexander the Great
in 1 Maccabees, 1–10 ..................................................................................................200
Aleksandra Klęczar
Part V: Second Sophistic Rome
14. The hero vs. the tyrant: legitimate and illegitimate rule in the
Alexander-Caesar pairing ..............................................................................................210
Rebecca Frank
15. Plutarch’s Alexander, Dionysos and the metaphysics of power ...........................226
Elias Koulakiotis
16. The artistic king: refl ections on a Topos in Second Sophistic
Historiography .............................................................................................................250
Sabine Müller
17. Flattery, history, and the Πεπαιδευμένος .........................................................................262
Sulochana Asirvatham
Index .....................................................................................................................................275
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List of contributors
ERAN ALMAGOR is an independent scholar (Israel). ALEKSANDRA KLĘCZAR is Associate Professor of
[email protected] Classics at the Jagiellonian University (Poland).
[email protected]
SULOCHANA ASIRVATHAM is Associate Professor
of Classics at Montclair State University (USA). ELIAS KOULAKIOTIS is Assistant Professor of Ancient
[email protected] History at the University of Ioannina (Greece).
[email protected]
HUGH BOWDEN is Professor of Ancient History
and Head of the Department of Classics at King’s SABINE MÜLLER is Professor of Ancient History
College London (UK). at Marburg University (Germany).
[email protected] sabine.mueller@staff .uni-marburg.de
REBECCA FRANK is a PhD student MARK MUNN is Professor of History and
at the University of Virginia (USA). Archaeology and Head of the Department of
[email protected] Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
at the Pennsylvania State University (USA).
FRANCA LANDUCCI GATTINONI is Professor [email protected]
of Greek History at the Catholic
University of Milan (Italy). OLGA PALAGIA is Professor of Classical Archaeology
[email protected] in the Faculty of History and Archaeology at the
University of Athens (Greece).
WILLIAM GREENWALT is Professor of Classics [email protected]
at Santa Clara University (USA).
[email protected] FRANCES POWNALL is Professor of Classics
at the University of Alberta (Cananda).
WALDEMAR HECKEL is Professor Emeritus [email protected]
of Ancient History at the University of
Calgary (Canada). JACEK RZEPKA is Associate Professor of Ancient
[email protected] History at the University of Warsaw (Poland).
[email protected]
TIMOTHY HOWE is Professor of History and
Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College (USA). RICHARD STONEMAN is Honorary Visiting
[email protected] Professor at the University of Exeter (UK).
[email protected]
MAXIM M. KHOLOD is Associate Professor
of History at St. Petersburg State JOSEF WIESEHÖFER is Professor of Ancient
University (Russia). History at Kiel University (Germany).
[email protected] [email protected]
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Abbreviations
AAA Athens Annals of Archaeology JDAI Jahrbuch des deutschen
A&A Antike und Abendland archäologischen Instituts (contains
ABSA Annual of the British School Archäologischer Anzeiger)
at Athens JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
AchHist Achaemenid History JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
AHB The Ancient History Bulletin JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
AIPhO Annuaire de l’Institut de Philologie LIMC Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae
et d’Histoire Orientales et Slaves Classicae
AJA American Journal of Archaeology MEFRA Mélanges d’archéologie et d’histoire
AJP American Journal of Philology de l’École française de Rome
AJPh American Journal of Philology OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung
AM Archaia Macedonia (Ancient PCPS Proceedings of the Cambridge
Macedonia) Philological Society
AMI Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran PP La parola del passato
AncW The Ancient World RAC Reallexikon für Antike und
BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental Christentum
and African Studies RE Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der
C&M Classica et Mediaevalia classischen Altertumswissenschaft
ClassAnt Classical Antiquity REA Revue des études anciennes
CIQ Colby Quarterly RlA Rivista dell’Istituto nazionale
CQ Classical Quarterly d’archeologia e storia dell’arte
CP Classical Philology RhM Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
CR Classical Review SPAW Sitzungsberichte der Preußischen
CW The Classical World Akademie der Wissenschaften
EI Encyclopaedia Iranica TAPA Transactions of the American
G&R Greece and Rome Philological Association
GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies WO Die Welt des Orients. Wissenschaftliche
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Beiträge zur Kunde des
HSPh Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Morgenlandes
HTR Harvard Theological Review ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und
IA Iranica Antiqua vorderasiatische Archäologie
IIJ Harvard International Law Journal ZATW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche
JA Journal Asiatique Wissenschaft
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental ZPE Z eitschrift für Papyrologie und
Society Epigraphik
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