Alexander's Heirs (eBook)

The Age of the Successors

Edward M. Anson (Autor)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-86240-7 (ISBN)

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Alexander’s Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the Hellenistic Age.

• Offers an account of the power struggles between Alexander’s rival generals in the forty  year period following his death
• Discusses how Alexander’s vast empire ultimately became the Hellenistic World
• Makes full use of primary and secondary sources
• Accessible to a broad audience of students, university scholars, and the educated general reader
• Explores important scholarly debates on the Diadochi

Edward M. Anson is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues (2013) and Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2004), and co-editor of After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) (with V.Alonso Troncoso, 2013).

Autor

EDWARD M. ANSON is Professor of Anson History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. He is the author of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues (2013) and Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2004), and co-editor of After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) (with V. Alonso Troncoso, 2013).

Inhalt

Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Abbreviations 9
Chronology 11
Preface 19
Maps 21
1 Introduction 25
Notes 34
2 The Death of a Conqueror 35
Notes 65
3 The Funeral Games Begin 71
Notes 103
4 The End of a Dynasty 107
Chronology from Spring 318 to Spring 315 140
Notes 145
5 “War, both the King and Father of All” 1 149
Chronology from 314 to 306 181
Notes 186
6 The End of the Diadochi 189
Chronology from 306 to 281 208
Notes 211
7 Epilogue: The New World 213
Bibliography 221
Index 239

Rezensionen

"A reliable guide through the seemingly endless wars of the period has long been a desideratum for teachers and students. Anson (Univ. of Arkansas) addresses that need with this book... Summing Up: Essential. Belongs in all university libraries." (Choice, 1 March 2015)

"Alexander's Heirs is a concise, but
thoroughly documented, study of the formative years (323-281 BCE)
of the Hellenistic age by an insightful and highly respected
scholar. Students, teachers, and researchers will find it an
indispensable and infallible guide to one of the most complex and
exciting periods of ancient history."

--Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary, Canada

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alexander the Great, Diadochi, Age of the Successors, ancient Greece, Macedon, Hellenistic world, Hellenistic period, Hellenistic age, Alexander’s generals, Alexander studies, Perdiccas, Craterus, Antipater, Eumenes, Antigonus, Cassander, Demetrius Poliorcetes, satrap • Altertum • Ancient & Classical Greek & Hellenistic History • Ancient & Classical History • Classical Studies • Geschichte • Geschichte des Altertums u. der klassischen Antike • Griechenland /Alte Geschichte • Hellenistische Geschichte, Geschichte der griechischen Antike • History • Humanistische Studien
• ISBN-10: 1-118-86240-6 / 1118862406
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-86240-7 / 9781118862407