Philip II and Alexander the Great
Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives Edited by Elizabeth Carney and Daniel Ogden
Here's the table of contents from Oxford's web site:
And here's the "blurb"Table of Contents
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 Muller
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 heroes": 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
It took me a moment to realize that these are (most of) the papers from the Alexander Symposium held in Clemson a couple of years ago, a non-public symposium which Elizabeth Carney was so kind as to allow me to attend. So yeah, despite the somewhat higher than usual price for an ATG compilation I will be purchasing this book asap.Description
The careers of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great (III) were interlocked in innumerable ways: Philip II centralized ancient Macedonia, created an army of unprecedented skill and flexibility, came to dominate the Greek peninsula, and planned the invasion of the Persian Empire with a combined Graeco-Macedonian force, but it was Alexander who actually led the invading forces, defeated the great Persian Empire, took his army to the borders of modern India, and created a monarchy and empire that, despite its fragmentation, shaped the political, cultural, and religious world of the Hellenistic era. Alexander drove the engine his father had built, but had he not done so, Philipnulls achievements might have proved as ephemeral as had those of so many earlier Macedonian rulers. On the other hand, some scholars believe that Alexander played a role, direct or indirect, in the murder of his father, so that he could lead the expedition to Asia that his father had organized. In short, it is difficult to understand or assess one without considering the other. This collection of previously unpublished articles looks at the careers and impact of father and son together. Some of the articles consider only one of the Macedonian rulers although most deal with both, and with the relationship, actual or imagined, between the two. The volume will contain articles on military and political history but also articles that look at the self-generated public images of Philip and Alexander, the counter images created by their enemies, and a number that look at how later periods understood them, concluding with the Hollywood depiction of the relationship. Despite the plethora of collected works that deal with Philip and Alexander, this volume promises to make a genuine contribution to the field by focusing specifically on their relationship to one another.
Not every paper presented was submitted for publication and I regret that Jennifer Finn's article (University of Michigan) A Burning Desire for Dionysus: Alexander the Great at Persepolis isn't included because I think that many here would have found it quite intriguing. Her abstract (and others for the chapters above) are still available on the web though and can be found here.
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