Alexander's Marshals

A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership

Waldemar Heckel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

398 Seiten

2019 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-87376-9 (ISBN)

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This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to personalities, bias in the sources, and the social as well as military setting, including more on familial connections and regional origins in an attempt to create a better understanding of factions. The major confrontations, military and political, are treated in greater detail within the biographies, and a discussion of the organization and command structure of the Makedonian army has been added.

Waldemar Heckel is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at theUniversity of Calgary (Canada), where he was previously Professor of Classics.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Map of Alexander’s Empire

Introduction

Chapter 1: The House of Attalos

Chapter 2: The House of Aëropos

Chapter 3: Antipatros son of Iolaos

Chapter 4: Parmenion and Philotas

Chapter 5: Black Kleitos and his Relatives: The House of Dropidas

Chapter 6: Koinos son of Polemokrates

Chapter 7: Hephaistion son of Amyntos

Chapter 8: Meleagros son of Neoptolemos

Chapter 9: Leonnatos son of Anteas

Chapter 10: Krateros son of Alexandros

Chapter 11: Perdikkas son of Orontes

Chapter 12: The Sons of Andromenes

Chapter 13: Polyperchon

Chapter 14: The Family of Harpalos

Chapter 15: Ptolemy son of Lagos

Part II

The Instruments of Power

Alexander and the Macedonian Aristocracy

The Organization of the Army

Appendices

Sirrhas (Irrhas) the Illyrian

The so-called conspiracy of Amyntas Perdikka

Asandros son of Philotas

Artakoana

The Office of Chiliarch and Hephaistion’s Chiliarchy

White Kleitos and the Naval War in the Aegean

Neoptolemos archihypaspistes

Antigenes, Commander of the Silver Shields

The Sons of Larichos: Erigyios and Laomedon

Stemmata

The House of Attalos

The Lynkestian Royal House

The House of Iolaos

The House of Parmenion

The Family of Black Kleitos

The Family of Krateros of Orestis

The House of Andromenes and the Family of Perdikkas

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-87376-1 / 0367873761
ISBN-13	978-0-367-87376-9 / 9780367873769
Zustand	Neuware