Author: Demosthenes
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Frances Pownall
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110622947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the Hellenistic Successors. This volume of ground-breaking essays by leading scholars on Ancient Macedonia goes beyond existing research questions to assess the profound impact of Philip and Alexander on court culture throughout the ages. The papers in this volume offer a thematic approach, focusing upon key institutional, cultural, social, ideological, and iconographical aspects of the reigns of Philip and Alexander. The authors treat the Macedonian court not only as a historical reality, but also as an object of fascination to contemporary Greeks that ultimately became a topos in later reflections on the lives and careers of Philip and Alexander. This collection of papers provides a paradigm-shifting recognition of the seminal roles of Philip and Alexander in the emergence of a new kind of Macedonian kingship and court culture that was spectacularly successful and transformative.

Author: Simon Hornblower
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134963866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC.

Author: Gordon S. Shrimpton
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562915
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Theopompus was primarily known in antiquity for his historical works, which included an Epitome of Herodotus; Hellenica, a twelve-volume history of Greece; and the fifty-eight volume Philippica, which focused mainly on the career of Philip II of Macedon. All of Theopompus' works were lost by late antiquity except fifty-three volumes of the Philippica, which survived into Byzantine times only to disappear by perhaps the tenth century. Before these works were lost, geographers, lexicographers, biographers, collectors of anecdotes, and later historians all quoted Theopompus in their writings and many critics of historical style commented on Theopompus' work. Concentrating on the Hellenica and the Philippica, Shrimpton studies the fragments and testimonies to reveal what can be gleaned about the scope and content of Theopompus' two major works. He deals systematically with the problems of interpretation and makes clear the methodological background of his reconstructions and evaluations, furnishing the basis for further methodological debate. Theopompus' moral and political views are discussed, as are his treatment of two of the most important figures of the middle of the fourth century BC, Philip and Demosthenes. In addition, Shrimpton provides a comprehensive index of the proper names found in the fragments and reassesses the authorship of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, suggesting that it is most plausibly identified with Cratippus.

Author: Simon Hornblower
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415065577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Looks at areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC

Author: Ian Worthington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190263563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop of late classical Greece and Macedonia

Author: Philip Castle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783995049582
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Charles McLean Andrews
Publisher: Boston, Allys [1903]
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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