The Spectre of Philip
Author : Demosthenes
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
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Author : Demosthenes
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
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Author : Demosthenes
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Demosthenes
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Frances Pownall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110622947
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 : Gordon S. Shrimpton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773562915
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 : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134963866
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.
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Periodicals
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190263563
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 : Keith Hopwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780719024016
Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.