Companion to Ancient Macedonia

Editors: Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancientMacedonian history and material culture, A Companion to AncientMacedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholarsalike.

Features new, specially commissioned essays by leadingand up-and-coming scholars in the field
Examines the political, military, social, economic, andcultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period tothe end of Roman period and beyond
Discusses the importance of art, archaeology andarchitecture
All ancient sources are translated in English
Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for furtherreading

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1417g
• ISBN-13: 9781405179362
• ISBN-10: 1405179368
• Artikelnr.: 31187434

Autorenporträt

Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He has authored and edited several books, among them Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great (ed., 2003), The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005), and Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence (ed. with J.C. Yardley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Ian Worthington is Curators' Professor of History, Department of History, University of Missouri. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on Greek history, epigraphy and oratory, including Alexander the Great: Man and God (2004), The Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) and Philip II of Macedonia (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Preface: For Readers - and Reviewers. Notes.
Abbreviations. List of Maps. List of Figures. List of Plates. Part 1
Preamble. Part 2 Evidence. Part 3 Macedonia and Macedonians. Part 4
History. Part 5 Neighbours. Part 6 Politics, Society, Economy, and Culture.
Part 7 After Rome. Bibliography. Index.