Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives

368 Pages·2010·3.3 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Carney

PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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Philip II and Alexander
the Great
Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives
Edited by
ELIZABETH CARNEY and DANIEL OGDEN
2010
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Philip II and Alexander the Great : father and son, lives and afterlives/
edited by Elizabeth Carney and Daniel Ogden.
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A selection from the papers presented at an international symposium,
“Philip II and Alexander III: Father, Son and Dunasteia,” held April
3-5, 2008, at Clemson University, in South Carolina.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-973815-1
1. Philip II, King of Macedonia, 382–336 B.C.—Congresses.
2. Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.—Congresses.
3. Greece—History—Macedonian Expansion, 359–323 B.C.—Congresses.
4. Greece—History—Macedonian Hegemony, 323–281 B.C.—Congresses.
I. Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947–II. Ogden, Daniel.
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Preface
In July of 1997, A. B. Bosworth and E. B. Baynham convened an
international symposium on Alexander the Great at the University
of Newcastle (NSW, Australia). The conveners then edited a selection
of papers from the conference, Alexander the Great in Fact and Fic-
tion, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. This conference
and publication became a model for what has become a continuing
series of symposia focusing on the world and impact of Alexander
and involving junior and senior scholars from a variety of academic
disciplines, undergraduates and graduates, and the general public.
Each symposium has produced a publication. In January 2002,
Waldemar Heckel convened a symposium at University of Calgary; he
and Lawrence Tritle then edited a collection derived from that
meeting, Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander, published in
2003. In January of 2005, Professor Heckel again generously spon-
sored a symposium; he, Lawrence Tritle, and Pat Wheatley edited a
collection derived from the second Calgary symposium, Alexander’s
Empire: Formulation to Decay, published in 2007. In that same year,
Pat Wheatley hosted a conference at the University of Otago, New
Zealand. He and Robert Hannah coedited a collection of papers rel-
ated to that meeting; Alexander and His Successors: Essays from the
Antipodes that Regina Books published in May of 2009. So too the
present collection of articles has its origin in an international sympo-
sium, “Philip II and Alexander III: Father, Son and Dunasteia,” held
April 3–5, 2008, at Clemson University in South Carolina. The cur-
rent manuscript constitutes a selection from the papers delivered at
the symposium, though many of these papers now differ markedly
from their earlier oral versions. As we write, another Alexander Sym-
posium, convened by Victor Alonso Troncoso, is planned for Septem-
ber 2010 at Universidad de La Coruña, Spain.
Each symposium has differed a bit from the others in focus, or
composition, or organization but all have provided invaluable exper-
ience for those interested in the world of Alexander and ancient
Macedonia, the rare opportunity for specialists ordinarily scattered
around the world to talk at length, to bounce ideas off each other, and
viii PREFACE
for those newly involved in the fi eld to meet and speak to those who
have worked in it for many years. The varying venues have added a
piquant element to an already rich experience. We remember a lovely
afternoon spent wandering the wine country of New South Wales
with a somewhat directionally challenged but charming bus driver, a
group of Alexander scholars huddled together for warmth as they
watched a demonstration of the use of a sarissa while Calgary citizens
passing by on a Saturday morning gawked and threatened to cause
accidents, and an evening of barbecue and blue grass music (but,
unfortunately, no strong drink) in a South Carolina restaurant deco-
rated with somewhat obscure football memorabilia.
The symposium could not have happened without generous fi nan-
cial support from four different Clemson University entities: the
Department of History and Geography; the College of Art, Architec-
ture, and Humanities; the Offi ce of Research and Economic Develop-
ment; and the Vending Machine Fund. The staff of the University
Madren conference Center/Martin Inn offered invaluable help. Jeannie
Davis, Communications Director for the college, designed wonderful
posters for the conference. Sheri Stanley, history department adminis-
trative assistant, patiently led me through the wilds of state fi nancing,
and our administrative specialist, Trish Nigro, worked tirelessly to
make sure the minutiae of arrangements worked. Graduate and under-
graduate history students helped in many ways, particularly with
transport. My department chair, Thomas Kuehn, and my colleagues in
the history department did a great deal of work behind the scenes. My
husband, William Aarnes, was a wonderful host to thirty-fi ve Alexander
scholars and provided back-up service as a designated driver.
I would like to thank our contributors for their hard work and will-
ingness to make deadlines. I am grateful to Stefan Vranka and Oxford
University Press for the speed with which this project has proceeded.
Above all, I am in debt to my experienced and amazingly effi cient
coeditor, Daniel Ogden.
Elizabeth Carney
Contents
Contributors, xi
Abbreviations, xv
Introduction, xix
Part I Father, Son, and Court
1 T he “Pixodarus Affair” Reconsidered Again, 3
Stephen Ruzicka
2 T he Bearded King and the Beardless Hero: From Philip II
to Alexander the Great, 13
Víctor Alonso Troncoso
3 In the Shadow of His Father: Alexander, Hermolaus, and
the Legend of Philip, 25
Sabine Müller
4 Philip’s Eurydice in the Philippeum at Olympia, 33
Olga Palagia
5 Putting Women in Their Place: Women in Public under Philip II
and Alexander III and the Last Argeads, 43
Elizabeth Carney
6 The Symposia of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon: The
View from Greece, 55
Frances Pownall
Part II Philip and Alexander at War
7 Consensus Strategies under Philip and Alexander:
The Revenge Theme, 69
Giuseppe Squillace
8 The Asthetairoi: Macedonia’s Hoplites, 81
Edward M. Anson
9 The Argeads and the Phalanx, 91
A. B. Bosworth