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""En Filipo II y el Arte de la Guerra tendremos la oportunidad de conocer en profundidad a uno de los más grandes reyes de la antigua Macedonia. Gracias a su habilidad como estratega, diplomático, político y soldado, heredó un reino... more
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Abstract This article examines the longstanding rivalry of Rome and Parthia, which began as an unintended consequence of Crassus’ decisive defeat at Carrhae in 53 BCE. It synthesizes the accounts and opinions of numerous Graeco-Roman... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary History
IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 318 BCE, IN THE SPUTTERING EMBERS OF THE FIRST BLOODY WAR OF THE ‘SUCCESSORS” (DIADOCHOI) OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, EUMENES OF CARDIA SHELTERED SOMEWHERE ON THE ANATOLIAN PLATEAU IN THE HEART OF CAPPADOCIA WITH SOME... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryThe Diadochoi (The Successors of Alexander III the Great)
A study of both the structures of the Ptolemaic army and its military operations under the first four kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty, designed to evaluate the three chief purposes of the army, change over time in structures and mechanism,... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryPtolemaic EgyptHellenistic warfare
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      Ancient Military HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryPunic WarsHannibal
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      Ancient HistoryRoman HistoryHellenistic HistoryRoman Republic
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic and Roman FortificationsHellenistic Military HistoryHellenistic Roman and Byzantine Archaeology in the Land of Israel
This article reviews possible papyrological evidence for rebel activity in the Fayum during the Great Revolt (206–185 BC). A recently-published archive belonging to two Tanis taricheutai has provided evidence for Fayum rebels. Seven... more
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      Irregular WarfarePtolemaic Egyptian HistoryGreek PapyrologyHellenistic Military History
This paper offers an historiographic case study of Alexander’s battle against the Indian king Poros at the Hydaspes River. Analysis centres round the two preferred sources, Plutarch and Arrian who seem to include the same information and... more
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      Ancient HistoryMilitary HistoryGreek LiteratureGreek History
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      Ancient Military HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryAncient Weapons and WarfareHellenistic warfare
Throughout history, the Seleucid military might demonstrated many times its importance for the maintenance, expansion and defense of the Empire. Rarely the Seleucid army was defeated in a campaign and it happened in front of the almighty... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryGreek EpigraphyAthenian DemocracyStrabo
ABSTRACT: This chapter addresses the textual relationship between Maurice's Strategicon and its classical antecedents, a largely unexplored question, given that this late sixth-century military treatise has been studied primarily by... more
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      Military HistoryGreek LiteratureLate Antique and Byzantine StudiesByzantine Literature
An extensive biography of King Lysimachus of Thrace. Published in Bulgarian.
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      Ancient HistoryHistorical GeographyClassicsHellenistic History
The dead lay everywhere; the ground onto which they had been driven was a charnel house littered with their corpses. Shattered sarissae, viscera and body parts shared the killing ground with the whole weapons and armour that had been... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryAntigonid EmpireThe Diadochoi (The Successors of Alexander III the Great)
The recent excavations in Patara, Turkey, one of the important port cities of the Lycian region, enabled access to new important data about the Ptolemaic presence in the city and the region. The subject of this study is 19 gold... more
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      Military HistoryArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyHellenistic History
Читателю предлагается второе издание знаменитого сочинения греческого автора середины II века н. э. из Македонии, о коем известно то, что к моменту начала Парфянской войны (161–162 гг.), несмотря на свой преклонный возраст, он продолжал... more
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      Second SophisticAncient Military HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryAncient Warfare
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      Ancient HistoryAncient Greek HistoryAncient Military HistoryHellenistic Military History
Demetrius Poliorcetes spent seven years of his turbulent life as the king of Macedonia and the ruler of a large part of Greece. Two sources by the same author, Plutarh of Chaeronea (the biography of Poliorcestes himself and that of his... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryHistory of Ancient MacedoniaHellenistic Greece
Guest Lecture for the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. Montreal, QC, in honor of Dr. Arthur Eckstein on the 15th anniversary of Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, September 14.
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      HistoryAncient HistoryClassicsHellenistic History
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      ClassicsClassical philologyGreek and Latin EpigramHellenistic Military History
The Ptolemaic dynasty of Hellenistic Egypt has a reputation more for opulence, or τρυφή, than for martial prowess. Athenaios, in his Deipnosophistae, could reliably dip into the Egyptian well for images of extravagance. For the Ptolemies,... more
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      Ptolemaic Egyptian HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryHellenistic History: Galatians and celtsHellenistic Kingship
Review of: A.J. Sachs, H. Hunger, Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia. Volume I. Diaries from 652 B.C. to 262 B.C. Vienna 1988. Volume II. Diaries from 261 B.C. to 165 B.C. Vienna 1989. Review concerning the... more
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      Ancient HistoryHellenistic HistoryHistory of AstronomyHistory of Astrology
Marek Jan Olbrycht (Poland) Alexander the Great in Sittakene and the Reorganization of his Army (331 B.C.) In: Marek Jan Olbrycht, Jeffrey D. Lerner (eds.), Macedones , Persia et ultima Orientis. Alexander’s Anabasis from the Danube to... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHistory of IranHellenistic HistoriographyAlexander the Great
From his entrenched camp upon the southern summit of Olympus (southern peak of Provatares, modern Melissi) on the Laconian border, Cleomenes III of Sparta watched the Macedonian light armed led by the Agrianes and Gauls crest the... more
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      Hellenistic Military HistoryHellenistic GreeceHellenistic Spartan history
A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryMilitary HistoryRoman History
(Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Taktika held at the University of Toruń, 7-11 April 2005) Contributors: Wojciech Brillowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań); Bogdan Burliga (University of Gdańsk); Radosław A.... more
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Tesi di dottorato sul Koinon dei Nesioti. Viene analizzata la storia politica, la struttura istituzionale, il network economico e possibili indizi di una identità nesiotica.
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      Hellenistic HistoryFederalismGreek EpigraphyNumismatics
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      Ptolemaic Egyptian HistoryHellenistic Military History
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      Roman RepublicRoman military archaeologyRepublican RomeHellenistic Military History
The horsemen reached Azotus (modern Ashdod, Israel) nearing midnight. Their horses, lathered in sweat in spite of the crisp December night, made directly for their stabling and water. Of the elite cavalrymen who had earlier left these... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryDiodorus SiculusHellenistic Military HistoryThe Diadochoi (The Successors of Alexander III the Great)
Course Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic Age (roughly the 16 th to the 1 st centuries BCE), drawing on both source materials and modern... more
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      Creative WritingAncient Egyptian ReligionHistoryAncient History
On the afternoon of June 22, 217 (all dates are BCE) Ptolemy IV “Philopater”, likely at the insistence of his generals and Sosibius in particular, had resolved to bring Antiochus III to battle. The two armies had been camped opposite each... more
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      Hellenistic HistorySeleucid EmpireHellenistic Military History
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      Roman HistoryMiddle East HistoryHellenistic HistoryIranian History
This paper summerizes the hellenistic coin finds on sites BEY 002, BEY 006, BEY 004, BEY 026, BEY 145, BEY 125, BEY 133, BEY 142 and BEY 144 from Beirut. The full data presented the VXth INC Glasgow, 2009, are consultable in the "Talks"... more
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When it comes to analysing the composition of the Seleukid army, our sources are characterised by a singular peculiarity: whereas all important regions of the Seleukid empire seem to have provided important contingents to the king's army,... more
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      Ancient HistoryMilitary HistoryClassicsHellenistic History
A rare metal object is currently on display at the Governor’s Local History Museum of Orenburg (Russia). It is an almost completely preserved back plate of the Hellenistic iron muscle cuirass. The cuirass was unearthed in 1995 during... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryArms and Armor StudiesEurasian NomadsHellenistic Bactria
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      Ptolemaic Egyptian HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryPtolemaic PeriodAncient Weapons and Warfare
The mist, though clearing from the ridge tops, hugged the ground and rolled down the slopes into the Enipeus valley to the south. Though the screams and shouts of the combatants could be heard from down the slopes, little could be... more
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      Roman HistoryHellenistic HistoryAncient Greek HistoryHellenistic Military History
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      Ancient HistoryMilitary HistoryHellenistic HistoryAncient Greek History
Introduction. 1. Une scène de sacrifice. 2. Écrire la mémoire d’Antioche. 3. Apamée, site archéologique d’importance. 4. Importance et originalité d’une mosaïque inédite. Pour aller plus loin (bibliographie). Découverte lors de fouilles... more
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According to Strabo and Pliny the Elder, the decision to found Seleucia on the Tigris by Seleucos Nikanor was the cause behind the decadence of Babylon, once the main centre of Mesopotamia. The present analysis addresses how Seleucia was... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryBabylonSeleucid EmpireHellenistic Military History
In this study, I’ll be focusing on the process of the evolution of the Ptolemaic monarchy as a social-political institution in the period of early and high Hellenism (late IV - late III cent. here and next – BC). This process appeared as... more
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionHellenistic Military HistoryHellenistic EgyptRoyal Power
This article reviews possible papyrological evidence for rebel activity in the Fayum during the Great Revolt (206–185 BC). A recently-published archive belonging to two Tanis taricheutai has provided evidence for Fayum rebels. Seven... more
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      Irregular WarfarePtolemaic Egyptian HistoryGreek PapyrologyHellenistic Military History
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryWar Elephants
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      Ancient Military HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryPyrrhus of Epirus
Alone amongst all of Alexander’s successors, Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, lived to see a stellar career plumb the depths of misfortune. Plutarch astutely observed that, “in none of the kings did Tyche (Fortune) take such sudden twists... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryHistory of Ancient MacedoniaPoliorcetics
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      Ancient HistoryMilitary HistoryClassicsGreek Literature
The Hetairoi of the Antigonids, in: Κοινὸν δῶρον. Studies and Essays in Honour of Valery P. Nikonorov on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday presented by His Friends and Colleagues (St. Petersburg 2014) 202–207 Until recent times,... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryHellenistic Military HistoryHistory of Ancient MacedoniaAntigonid Empire
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