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Author Roisman, Joseph, 1946-

Title Alexander's veterans and the early wars of the successors / Joseph Roisman
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012

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Series Fordyce W. Mitchel memorial lecture series
Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series.
Contents Map of Alexander's Campaigns -- Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia -- Alexander and Discontent : The King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia -- The Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323) -- The Dissolution of the Royal Army, I : The Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus -- The Dissolution of the Royal Army, II : The Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus -- The Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor -- Eumenes and the Silver Shields -- The Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes' Death
Summary From antiquity until now, most writers who have chronicled the events following the death of Alexander the Great have viewed this history through the careers, ambitions, and perspectives of Alexander's elite successors. Few historians have probed the experiences and attitudes of the ordinary soldiers who followed Alexander on his campaigns and who were divided among his successors as they fought for control of his empire after his death. Yet the veterans played an important role in helping to shape the character and contours of the Hellenistic world. This pathfinding book offers the first in-depth investigation of the Macedonian veterans' experience during a crucial turning point in Greek history (323-316 BCE). Joseph Roisman discusses the military, social, and political circumstances that shaped the history of Alexander's veterans, giving special attention to issues such as the soldiers' conduct on and off the battlefield, the army assemblies, the volatile relationship between the troops and their generals, and other related themes, all from the perspective of the rank-and-file. Roisman also reexamines the biases of the ancient sources and how they affected ancient and modern depictions of Alexander's veterans, as well as Alexander's conflicts with his army, the veterans' motives and goals, and their political contributions to Hellenistic history. He pays special attention to the Silver Shields, a group of Macedonian veterans famous for their invincibility and martial prowess, and assesses whether or not they deserved their formidable reputation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast
Alexander III. Makedonien, König v356-v323 gnd
Seberíni, Ondrej gnd
Alexander (Makedonien, König, 3) idszbz
Subject Generals -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
Veterans -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Friendship
Generals
Historiography
Kings and rulers -- Succession
Veterans
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057088
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C. -- Historiography
Greece -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- To 1500
Greece -- History, Military -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001511
Babylonia -- History, Military
India -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004943
Turkey -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138840
Subject Greece
India
Middle East -- Babylonia
Turkey
Hellenistische Staaten
Hellenistische Staaten.
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292735972
0292735979