Philip II and Alexander the great: father and son, lives and afterlives

INDICE: Preface; Table of contents; Notes on the contributors; Abbreviations;List of figures; Introduction; i. Father, Son, and Court; 1.: The 'Pixodarus Affair' Reconsidered Again. Stephen Ruzicka.; 2.: The Bearded King and the Beardless Hero: from Philip II to Alexander the Great. Victor Alonso Troncoso.; 3.: In the Shadow of his Father: Alexander, Hermolaus, and the Legend of Philip. Sabine Müller.; 4.: Philip's Eurydice in the Philippeum at Olympia. Olga Palagia.; 5.: Putting Women in Their Place: Women in Public under Philip II and Alexander III and the Last Argeads. Elizabeth Carney.; 6.: The Symposia of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon - the View From Greece. Frances Pownall.; ii. Philip and Alexander at War; 7.: Consensus Strategies under Philip and Alexander: the Revenge Theme. Giuseppe Squillace.; 8.: The Asthetairoi: Macedonia's Hoplites. Edward M. Anson.; 9.: The Argeads and the Phalanx. A. B. Bosworth.; 10.: Scythed Chariots at Gaugamela: a Case Study. Waldemar Heckel, Carolyn Willekes, Graham Wrightson.; iii. After Philip and Alexander: Legacy and Legitimation; 11.: Cassander and the Legacy of Philip II and Alexander III in Diodorus' Library. Franca Landucci Gattinoni.; 12.: The Role of the Argeadai in the Legitimation of the Ptolemaic Dynasty: Rhetoric and Practice. Margarita Lianou.; 13.: Hieronymus of Cardia: Causation and Bias from Alexander to his Successors. Joseph Roisman.; iv. Reception of Father and Son; 14.: Argead Dunasteia during the Reigns of Philip II and Alexander III: Aristotle Reconsidered. William Greenwalt.; 15.: 'Worldwide Empire' vs 'Glorious Enterprise': Diodorus and Justin on Philip II and Alexander the Great. Ian Worthington.; 16.: 'You should never meet your heroesL': Growing up with Alexander, the Valerius Maximus way. Diana Spencer.; 17.: His Son's Father? Philip II in the Second Sophistic Sulochana Asirvatham.; 18.: Alexander in the Underworld. Daniel Ogden.; 19.: 'And your father sees you': Paternity in Alexander (2004). Gideon Nisbet.; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973815-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés