A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

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Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington
John Wiley & Sons, 6 dic 2010 - 696 pagine
The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike.
  • Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field
  • Examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman period and beyond
  • Discusses the importance of art, archaeology and architecture
  • All ancient sources are translated in English
  • Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for further reading
 

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Parole e frasi comuni

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Informazioni sull'autore (2010)

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).

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloA Companion to Ancient Macedonia
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
CuratoriJoseph Roisman, Ian Worthington
Edizioneillustrata
EditoreJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405179368, 9781405179362
Lunghezza696 pagine
  
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