Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors /

Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors / / Joseph Roisman.

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From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander’s elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldier...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Roisman, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map of Alexander’s Campaigns
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia
  • Chapter 2 Alexander and Discontent: Th e King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia
  • Chapter 3 Th e Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323)
  • Chapter 4 Th e Dissolution of the Royal Army, I: Th e Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus
  • Chapter 5 Th e Dissolution of the Royal Army, II: Th e Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus, and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus
  • Chapter 6 Th e Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor
  • Chapter 7 Eumenes and the Silver Shields
  • Chapter 8 Th e Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes’ Death
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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