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This first focused analysis of veterans’ experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, “bottom-up” perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history.

Table of Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Map of Alexander's Campaigns
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia
  • Chapter 2. Alexander and Discontent: The King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia
  • Chapter 3. The Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323)
  • Chapter 4. The Dissolution of the Royal Army, I: The Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus
  • Chapter 5. The Dissolution of the Royal Army, II: The Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus
  • Chapter 6. The Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor
  • Chapter 7. Eumenes and the Silver Shields
  • Chapter 8. The Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes' Death
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292754317, 978-0292754317
      ISBN10: 0292754310
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This first focused analysis of veterans’ experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, “bottom-up” perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Abbreviations
      • Preface
      • Map of Alexander's Campaigns
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. Motives and Bias in the History of Hieronymus of Cardia
      • Chapter 2. Alexander and Discontent: The King and His Army in India and Opis, Mesopotamia
      • Chapter 3. The Veterans and the Macedonian Internal Strife in Babylon (323)
      • Chapter 4. The Dissolution of the Royal Army, I: The Veterans of Perdiccas and Craterus
      • Chapter 5. The Dissolution of the Royal Army, II: The Veterans of Eumenes, Neoptolemus and Alcetas, and the Meeting in Triparadeisus
      • Chapter 6. The Veterans, Eumenes, and Antigonus in Asia Minor
      • Chapter 7. Eumenes and the Silver Shields
      • Chapter 8. The Silver Shields in Battle and Eumenes' Death
      • Conclusion
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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