East and West in the World Empire of Alexander

Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Edited by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham

Features an extensive range of essays which reflects the depth and breadth of Professor Brian Bosworth's scholarship
Presents original treatments of difficult and unusual topics within the field
Comprises a varied mix of long-established experts and emerging scholars

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander

Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Edited by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham

Description

The essays in this volume - written by twenty international scholars - are dedicated to Professor Brian Bosworth who has, in over forty-five years, produced arguably the most influential corpus of historical and historiographical research by one scholar. Professor Bosworth's name is often synonymous with scholarship on Alexander the Great, but his expertise also spreads far wider, as the scope of these essays demonstrates. The collection's coverage ranges from Egyptian and Homeric parallels, through Roman historiography, to Byzantine coinage.

However, the life of Alexander provides the volume's central theme, and among the topics explored are the conqueror's resonance with mythological figures such as Achilles and Heracles, his divine pretensions and military display, and his motives for arresting his expedition at the River Hyphasis in India. Some of Alexander's political acts are also scrutinized, as are the identities of those supposedly present in the last symposium where, according to some sources, the fatal poison was administered to the king. Part of the collection focuses on Alexander's legacy, with seven essays examining the Successors, especially Craterus, and Ptolemy, and Alexander's ill-fated surviving dynasty, including Olympias, Eurydice, and Philip III Arrhidaeus.

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander

Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Edited by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Maps and Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation, Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham
Works by A. B. Bosworth
1. MHNIN AEIΔE ΘAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles, Judith Maitland †
2. Alexander, Achilles, and Heracles: Between Myth and History, Waldemar Heckel
3. Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God, Lara O'Sullivan
4. Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC, Elizabeth Baynham
5. Alexander at the Beas, Edward M. Anson
6. Alexander the Great and the Mechanici, David Whitehead
7. From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree, Ian Worthington
8. Craterus Revisited, Norman G. Ashton
9. Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World, Daniel Ogden
10. Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a 'Weak' Alexander, Timothy Howe
11. Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia, Elizabeth D. Carney
12. King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery, Robin Lane Fox
13. The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt, Ken Sheedy and Boyo Ockinga
14. Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence, Pat Wheatley
15. Polis Hellenis, Getzel M. Cohen
16. Thapsacus and Zeugma, David Kennedy
17. Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great, Jane Bellemore
18. Tacitus and the Crises of Empire, Arthur J. Pomeroy
19. Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III, John R. Melville-Jones
Bibliography

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander

Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Edited by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham

Author Information

Pat Wheatley, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Otago,Elizabeth Baynham, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Newcastle

Pat Wheatley is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Contributors:

Edward M. Anson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Norman Ashton, University of Western Australia
Elizabeth Baynham, University of Newcastle, Australia
Jane Bellemore, University of Newcastle, Australia
Elizabeth Carney, Clemson University
Getzel M. Cohen, University of Cincinnati
Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary
Timothy Howe, St. Olaf College
David Kennedy, University of Western Australia
Robin Lane Fox, University of Oxford
Judith Maitland, University of Western Australia
John R. Melville Jones, University of Western Australia
Boyo Ockinga, Macquarie University
Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter
Lara O'Sullivan, University of Western Australia
Arthur J. Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington
Ken Sheedy, Macquarie University
Pat Wheatley, University of Otago
David Whitehead, Queen's University
Ian Worthington, University of Missouri

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander

Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Edited by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham

Reviews and Awards

"There is a great deal to like in this wide-ranging and erudite volume, and precious little to criticise ... and the quality of the scholarship is manifest ... this volume represents a refreshingly different, and deeply necessary, approach to all that surrounds the Macedonian conqueror." -- Alex McAuley, Hermathena

"It is a rich and varied volume." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review