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When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as beginning in 323 BC and ending with the deaths of the last two Successors in 281 BC. This is a major publication devoted to the Successors and contains eighteen papers reflecting current research.
Several papers attempt to unravel the source history of the very limited remaining narrative accounts, and add additional materials through cuneiform and Byzantine texts. Specific historical issues addressed include the role of so-called royal flatterers and whether or not Alexanders old guard did continue to serve into their sixties and seventies.
Three papers reflect the recent conscious effort by many to break away from the Hellenocentric view of the predominantly Greek sources, by examining the role of the conquered, specifically the prominent roles played by Iranians in the administration and military of Alexander and his Successors, pockets of Iranian resistance which eventually blossomed into Hellenistic kingdoms ruled by sovereigns proclaiming their direct connection to an Iranian past and a continuation of Iranian influence through an examination of the roles played by certain of the Diadochis Iranian wives.
The papers in the final section analyze the use of varying forms of propaganda. These include the use of the concept of Freedom of the Greeks as a means of manipulating opinion in the Greek world; how Ptolemy used a snake cult associated with the foundation of Alexandria in Egypt to link his kingship with that of Alexander; and the employment of elephant images to advertise the authority of particular rulers.
Table of Contents
Preface (Vctor Alonso Troncoso)
Introduction (Edward M. Anson)
I
The Diadochi History in Cuneiform Documentation (Tom Boiy)
The Heidelberg Epitome: A Neglected Diadoch Source (Pat Wheatley)
Seleucus vs. Antigonus: A Study on the Sources (Franca Landucci Gattinoni)
Duris of Samos and the Diadochi (Frances Pownall)
The Diadochi, Invented Tradition, and Alexanders Expedition to Siwah (Timothy Howe)
Strabo, India and Barbequed Brahmans (Brian Bosworth)
What We do not Know about the Age of the Diadochi: The Methodological Consequences of the Gaps in the Evidence (Alexander Meeus)
II
The Battle of Gabene: Eumenes Inescapable Doom? (Edward M. Anson)
Alexanders Argyraspids: Tough Old Fighters or Antigonid Myth? (Elizabeth Baynham)
Agora XVI 107 and the Royal Title of Demetrius Poliorcetes (Paschalis Paschidis)
Adeimantus of Lampsacus and the Development of the Early Hellenistic Philos (Shane Wallace)
III
Iranians in the Diadochi Period (Marek Jan Olbrycht)
Nullis umquam regibus nisi domesticis. Cappadocia, Pontus and the Resistance to the Diadochi in Asia Minor (Luis Ballesteros Pastor)
The Female Element of the Political Self-Fashioning of the Diadochi: Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysimachus, and their Iranian Wives (Sabine Mller)
IV
Alexander the Great, Ptolemy I and the Offerings of Arms to Athena Lindia (Giuseppe Squillace)
Propaganda Strategies and Political Document. Philip IIIs Diagramma and the Greeks in 319 B.C. (Elisabetta Poddighe)
The Alexandrian Foundation Myth: Alexander, Ptolemy, the Agathoi Daimones and the Argolaoi (Daniel Ogden )
The Diadochi and the Zoology of Kinghip: The Elephants (Vctor Alonso Troncoso)

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AFTER ALEXANDER
The Time of the Diadochi
(323281 BC)
edited by
Vctor Alonso Troncoso and Edward M. Anson
Oxbow Books
Oxford and Oakville
First published in the United Kingdom in 2013. Reprinted in 2016 by
OXBOW BOOKS
The Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE
and in the United States by
OXBOW BOOKS
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Oxbow Books and the individual authors 2013
Paperback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-512-0
Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78297-063-7 (ePub)
Mobi Edition: ISBN 978-1-78297-064-4 (mobi)
A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
After Alexander : the time of the Diadochi (323-281 bc) / edited by Vctor Alonso Troncoso and Edward M. Anson.
pages cm
This volume contains the revised proceedings of an international symposium on The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC), held at the University of La Corua (Spain), in September 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84217-512-5
1. Greece--History--Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.--Congresses. 2. Macedonia--History--Diadochi, 323-276 B.C.--Congresses. I. Alonso Troncoso, V. (Vctor), author, editor of compilation. II. Anson, Edward, author, editor of compilation.
DF235.4.A47 2013
938.08--dc23
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Front cover: Fortress of Kurganzol, Uzbekistan (Photo M. J. Olbrycht), and busts of Philetairus, Craterus, Seleucus, and Demetrius Poliorcetes, with tetradrachm of Lysimachus (Photos V. Alonso Troncoso).
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In memoriam
NOTE ON THE ABBREVIATIONS AND THE CHRONOLOGY
Following Oxbow Books norms of publication, all journal titles are given in full in the bibliography provided by each contributor at the end of his/her paper. As regards the abbreviations of ancient sources, Greek authors and titles of works, as well as Greek inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, and collections of fragments (v.g., Jacoby FGH , Mller FHG ), are cited according to the new edition of the Diccionario Griego-Espaol Canon Lists, vol. I (2nd ed.), Madrid 2008 (with English version on line: http://dge.cchs.csic.es/index2.htm ). For the Latin sources the Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford 1968) has been used and, only for the missing abbreviations in the latters list, we have resorted to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Index (5th ed.), Leipzig 1990. In some special cases, however, the contributors have given their own list of abbreviations alongside their bibliography .
Concerning the chronological references, the dates are generally before Christ. Only in dubious cases the indication BC appears, while the years of the Era are explicitly referred as AD.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Vctor Alonso Troncoso is Professor of Ancient History at the University of La Corua (Spain) and currently Visiting Research Scholar at ISAW (New York University )
v.alonso.troncoso@udc.es
Edward M. Anson is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (United States of America )
emanson@ualr.edu
Luis Ballesteros Pastor is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville (Spain )
lbpastor@us.es
Elizabeth Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Newcastle (Australia )
elizabeth.baynham@newcastle.edu.au
Tom Boiy is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Near Eastern Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium )
tom.boiy@arts.kuleuven.be
Brian Bosworth is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia )
brian.bosworth@mq.edu.au
Timothy Howe is Associate Professor of History and Ancient Studies at St. Olaf College, Northfield (United States of America )
howe@stolaf.edu
Franca Landucci Gatinnoni is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy )
franca.landucci@unicatt.it
Alexander Meeus is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ancient History of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
alexander.meeus@arts.kuleuven.be
Sabine Mller is Visiting Professor of Ancient History at the University of Siegen and Lecturer in Ancient History at Kiel University (Germany )
mueller@geschichte.uni-siegen.de
Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and Research Fellow in the University of South Africa
d.ogden@exeter.ac.uk
Marek Jan Olbrycht is Professor of Ancient History and Oriental Studies at the University of Rzeszw (Poland )
marekolbrycht@wp.pl
Paschalis Paschidis is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens (Greece )
paspas@eie.gr
Elisabetta Poddighe is Senior Researcher of Greek History at the University of Cagliari (Italy )
poddighe@unica.it
Frances Pownall is Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada )
frances.pownall@ualberta.ca
Giuseppe Squillace is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at the University of Calabria, Rende (Italy )
giuseppesquillace@libero.it
Shane Wallace is Walsh Family Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland )
shane.wallace@hotmail.co.uk
Pat Wheatley is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand )
pat.wheatley@otago.ac.nz
PREFACE
Vctor Alonso Troncoso
This volume contains the revised proceedings of an international symposium on The Time of the Diadochi (323281 BC), held at the University of La Corua (Spain), in September 2010. The meeting was the fifth in a regular series of international conferences that began in 2002 at the University of Calgary (Canada), when Waldemar Heckel convened the first symposium. The convener and Lawrence Tritle then edited a selection of papers from the conference , Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander (Claremont, CA 2003). Three years later, Waldemar Heckel renewed the initiative by hosting a second symposium in Calgary, whose proceedings were edited by the convener, along with Lawrence Tritle and Pat Wheatley, under the title Alexanders Empire: Formulation to Decay (Claremont, CA 2007). In 2006 the third conference was organized by Pat Wheatley at the University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand), the result of which was the volume Alexander and his Successors: Essays from the Antipodes (Claremont, CA 2009), edited by the organizer of the symposium and Robert Hannah. The fourth event in this series took place in spring 2008, now four years ago, at Clemson University, South Carolina (USA), sponsored by Elizabeth Carney, who took the responsibility of publishing the proceedings alongside Daniel Ogden : Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (Oxford 2010). Each symposium, therefore, has produced a publication, thus showing the scientific commitment of both organizers and participants. As I write, another conference, this time on Alexander the Great and his Successors: The Art of King and Court, is planned for January 2013 and hosted by Macquaire University and the University of Newcastle (Australia), being the conveners Ken Sheedy, Blanch Menadier and Elizabeth Baynham .
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