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Ancient Historiography on War and Empire (2016, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- History
- Features
- Illustrated
- ISBN
- 9781785702990
- EAN
- 9781785702990
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books, The Limited
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Information
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman empires', the 17 essays collected here analyse the way events and the accounts of those events interact. Subjects include: how Greek historians assign nearly divine honours to the Persian King; the role of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in historical narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; warfare and financial innovation in the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the Great; the murders of Philip II, his last and seventh wife Kleopatra, and her guardian, Attalos; Alexander the Great's combat use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch's juxtaposition of character in the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a commentary on political legitimacy and military prowess, and Roman Imperial historians using historical examples of good and bad rule to make meaningful challenges to current Roman authority. In some cases, the balance shifts more towards the literary' and in others more towards the historical', but what all of the essays have in common is both a critical attention to the genre and context of history-writing in the ancient world and its focus on war and empire."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxbow Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1785702998
ISBN-13
9781785702990
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220575278
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Length
9.4in.
Width
6.7in.
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2016-036110
Group
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Publication Date
2016-12-16
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
930.072
Edited by
Richard Stoneman, Sabine Muller, Timothy Howe
Lc Classification Number
D56.A54 2016
Copyright Date
2016
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