East and West in the world empire of Alexander : essays in honour of Brian Bosworth

Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Brian Bosworth: An Appreciation Works by A. B. Bosworth 1. MHNIN AEIDELTAE THETAAE: Alexander the Great and the Anger of Achilles 2. Alexander, Achilles, and Heracles: Between Myth and History 3. Callisthenes and Alexander the Invincible God 4. Why the Devil wears Prada: The Politics of Display in Military Kit in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC 5. Alexander at the Beas 6. Alexander the Great and the Mechanici 7. From East to West: Alexander and the Exiles Decree 8. Craterus Revisited 9. Nectanebo's Seduction of Olympias and Benign Anguiform Deities of the Ancient Greek World 10. Cleopatra-Eurydice, Olympias, and a 'Weak' Alexander 11. Dynastic Loyalty and Dynastic Collapse in Macedonia 12. King Ptolemy: Centre and Periphery 13. The Crowned Ram's Head on Coins of Alexander the Great and the Rule of Ptolemy as Satrap of Egypt 14. Diadoch Chronography after Philip Arrhidaeus: Old and New Evidence 15. Polis Hellenis 16. Thapsacus and Zeugma 17. Valerius Maximus and His Presentation of Alexander the Great 18. Tacitus and the Crises of Empire 19. Legitimizing an Emperor: The Solidus of Alexander III Bibliography