Download e-book for kindle: Ancient Historiography on War and Empire by Timothy Howe,Sabine Müller,Richard Stoneman,Sabine

within the historical Greek-speaking global, writing concerning the earlier intended balancing the reporting of proof with shaping and guiding the political pursuits and behaviours of the current. historic Historiography on battle and Empire exhibits the ways that the literary style of writing historical past constructed to lead empires via their wars. Taking key occasions from the Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Macedonian and Roman ‘empires’, the 17 essays amassed the following examine the way in which occasions and the debts of these occasions interact.  matters contain: how Greek historians assign approximately divine honours to the Persian King; the position of the tomb cult of Cyrus the Founder in ancient narratives of conquest and empire from Herodotus to the Alexander historians; struggle and monetary innovation within the age of Philip II and his son, Alexander the nice; the murders of Philip II, his final and 7th spouse Kleopatra, and her parent, Attalos; Alexander the Great’s strive against use of eagle symbolism and divination; Plutarch’s juxtaposition of personality within the Alexander-Caesar pairing as a statement on political legitimacy and army prowess, and Roman Imperial historians utilizing ancient examples of fine and undesirable rule to make significant demanding situations to present Roman authority. in certain cases, the stability shifts extra in the direction of the ‘literary’ and in others extra in the direction of the ‘historical’, yet what all the essays have in universal is either a severe realization to the style and context of history-writing within the historical global and its specialise in warfare and empire.