Eumenes of Cardia

A Greek Among Macedonians, Second Edition
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-29715-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 383, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians (2nd edition) updates the original work in light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents much new analysis influenced by this continuing scholarship. Eumenes of Cardia was a royal secretary who, in the years following the death of Alexander the Great became a major contender for power. Despite the fact that he had been chiefly an administrator rather than one of Alexander’s elite military commanders, and that he was a Greek from the city of Cardia, as opposed to a native Macedonian, Eumenes came close to securing control of the Asian remnants of Alexander’s empire. His history is important because our sources for the years immediately following the Conqueror’s death are dominated by the Cardian’s story. Moreover, his death marked in many respects the approaching end of the Macedonian dynasty of kings who had ruled Macedonia since the 8th c. BC, and his life illuminated both the nature of the Macedonian heritage and the possibilities of the new age ushered in by the conquests of the great Alexander.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anson, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology
Maps
- Greece and the Aegean Area
- The Ancient Near East

Introduction
1 The Sources
2 From Cardia to Babylon
3 From Babylon to Cappadocia
4 From Cappadocia to Triparadeisus
Appendix: Low or High Chronology?
5 “The Fickleness of Fortune”
6 The Reckoning with Antigonus
Appendix: The Chronology from Nora to Eumenes’ Death
7 Greeks and Macedonians
8 “A Greek among Macedonians”

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Edward M. Anson, Ph.D (1975), Professor of History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has authored 5 monographs, 2 edited volumes and many articles and book chapters. He is series editor of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World (Rowman & Littlefield) and associate editor of the online Ancient History Bulletin. His most recent publication is Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors 323-281 BC (Bloomington 2014).