N G L Hammond

Biographic Data

ID1037389
NAMEN G L Hammond
GIVEN NAMESN G L
FAMILY NAMEHammond
SIGNATUREHAMMOND N G L
AFFILIATIONSa 3 Belvoir Terrace, Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 2AA, England
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS99
TOTAL CITATIONS279
AUTHOR COUNT92
EDITOR COUNT7
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1932
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX9

  • The ethne in Epirus and Upper Macedonia

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2000Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article deals with the inscriptional and literary evidence for the ethne of Epirus and Upper Macedonia. It is argued that the term ethnos was used not of a rural settlement but of both nomadic and settled groups of persons, each of which believed itself to be of common racial descent. Both areas were exceptionally well suited in terrain and in climate to the practice of transhumant pastoralism by small nomadic or semi-nomadic ‘companies’

  • Political Developments in Boeotia

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2000Cited by: 1

    In this article I try to give a precise meaning to the political terms which are used in the sources, and to use those terms for an understanding of political developments. I take these developments in their historical order, and at the end of each period I assess the value of the evidence. I finish with reflection on the contributory system and the hegemony of the Thebans

  • The Genius of Alexander the Great

    Doyne Dawson, N G L HammondARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1999

  • The roles of the epistates in Macedonian contexts

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1999

    In 1996 Dr M. B. Hatzopoulos published a large amount of new evidence in his two volumes of The Macedonian Institutions under the Kings , and further evidence appears in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylon. In this evidence the epistates holds an important place. With the opening of a new chapter in Macedonian studies, it seems desirable to provide an overall view of the roles of the epistates in all Macedonian contexts, including the Alexander-c…

  • The speeches in Arrian's Indica and Anabasis

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1999Cited by: 3

    The evaluation of speeches in ancient histories by modern scholars is very varied. Tarn (p. 286) opened his discussion of ‘The speeches in Arrian’ with the following words: Speaking generally, one expects a speech in any ancient historian to be a fabrication, either composed by the historian himself or by a predecessor, or else some exercise from one of the schools or rhetoric which he had adopted. On the other hand, according to Fornara (p. 143)…

  • Eretria's colonies in the area of the Thermaic Gulf

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1998References: 1

    Even the sites of the Eretrian colonies Methone, Dicaea and Mende in the area of the Thermaic Gulf were unknown ten years ago. Topographical research and excavation reports by Greek scholars have now provided much information on which this article is based

  • The Branchidae at Didyma and in Sogdiana

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1998Cited by: 4

    On the subject of the Branchidae there are a few facts and some outstanding questions. The facts may be stated first. They are provided by literary evidence and one piece of archaeological evidence, which are generally accepted

  • The genius of Alexander the Great

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondBOOKThe genius of Alexander the Great1997

    By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status throughout his kingdom, and in the centuries that followed his life became the subject of countless chronicles and biographies. N. G. L. Hammond, the foremost expert on ancient Macedonian history, h…

  • Was some rock art in the southern Balkans due to Crusaders

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEJournal of Medieval History1996Cited by: 1

    Various forms of rock art have been found in the southern Balkans. The dating of them is controversial. In this article the situation is reviewed, and the suggestion is made that in some cases the rock art was due to soldiers of the First Crusade

  • A Macedonian shield and Macedonian measures

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1996References: 1

    The bronze cover of a phalanx-man's shield, found in Upper Macedonia and published by P. Adam-Veleni, was inscribed ‘of king—’, the name being illegible. From the inscription and the decoration one can estimate that the Macedonian ‘foot’ was in the upper category of length. It is suggested that the king—probably Antigonus Gonatas—had these shields manufactured, and that he issued them to his infantry guard

  • Alexander and Armenia

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEPhoenix1996

  • The Chalcidians and ‘Apollonia of the Thraceward Ionians’

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1995References: 3

    The excavations at Torone, Mende, and some other sites have produced evidence of continuous contact between Chalcidice and southern Greece from early in the Iron Age. We can now understand more clearly the relationship between the earliest Greek settlers and those of the colonizing period, and we can tackle some problems of topography in the Chalcidian peninsula from a new angle

  • Connotations of ‘Macedonia’ and of ‘Macedones’ until 323 b.c

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1995References: 1

    It was a characteristic of Macedonian custom that a name was used in a special and in a general sense. For example, ‘Foot-Companions’ was the name of a Bodyguard of Philip and also of the men of the Phalanx-Brigades from Lower Macedonia, and ‘Hypaspists’ was the name of Infantry-Guardsmen of Alexander and also of the men of three Hypaspist Phalanx-Brigades. Geographical names were repeated: there were at least two regions and two cities called ‘E…

  • Illyrians and North-west Greeks

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondCHAPTERThe Cambridge Ancient History…1994

    Our concern is mainly with the area which today comprises Epirus and north-western Macedonia in Greece, Albania and the Yugoslav cantons of Metohija and Kosovo. Its geographical features have been described in Vol. III.I, 619–24. In ancient times it was inhabited by southern Illyrian tribes and north-western Greek tribes. Our knowledge of them for the period c. 540 to c. 360 B.C. is derived from some fragments of Hecataeus and some passages in St…

  • Philip's actions in 347 and early 346 b.c

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1994Cited by: 1References: 3

    Although much of great interest has been written recently about the period of the socalled Peace of Philocrates, little or nothing has been said of a passage which provides important information in Justin's Epitome of the Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus. This passage, 8.3.12–15, comes between the destruction of Olynthus (September, 348) and the arrival of the Athenian envoys at Pella (February, 346). In subject matter it corresponds with…

  • The Macedonian Imprint on the Hellenistic World

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondCHAPTERHellenistic History and Culture1993

  • The Cambridge Ancient History: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries BC

    Open AccessAlan K Bowman, D M Lewis et al.BOOKThe Cambridge Ancient History…1992

    Volume III Part II carries on the history of the Near East from the close of Volume III Part I and covers roughly the same chronological period as Volume III Part III. During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal strife. Assyrian might was reflected in the imposing palaces, libraries and sculpt…

  • The Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Burning of the Persepolis Palace

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1992References: 2

    Recent excavations in Macedonia have provided an analogy to the pillaging of the Palace at Persepolis. In plundered tombs at Aiani the excavators found a number of small gold discs with impressed rosettes and of gilded silver ivy leaves; at Katerini some thirty-five gold discs with impressed rosettes, a gold double pin, a gold ring from a sword-hilt, a bit of a gilded pectoral, gilded silver fittings once attached to a leather cuirass, many butto…

  • The Macedonian State: The Origins, Institutions and History

    Carolyn S Snively, N G L Hammond et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Sources of Justin on Macedonia to the Death of Philip

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1991Cited by: 5References: 6

    In this article I am making what is, as far as I know, the first systematic analysis of Justin books 7, 8 and 9. The method is that which I employed in analysing the sources of Diodorus 16 in CQ 31 (1937), 79ff. and 32 (1938), 137ff. Previous scholars had looked for similarities between the fragments of ancient historians and details in the text of Diodorus, and they had taken any such similarity as proof of a particular source being followed. Th…

  • The Royal Tombs at Vergina: Evolution and identities

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1991Cited by: 2References: 5

    This article reviews the evidence for built tombs in Macedonia prior to the construction of the royal tombs at Vergina. It considers earlier cist tombs with slab roofs, and evidence for architectural embellishment: it proceeds to discuss the evolution of the vaulted form, with architectural facades. In a second part, the identity of the occupants of Tombs I–III at Vergina is discussed, followed by a consideration of the arguments against the iden…

  • The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean, c. 525 to 479 B.C

    Paul Mackendrick, J Boardman et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1990

  • The Illyrian Atintani, the Epirotic Atintanes and the Roman Protectorate

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEThe Journal of Roman Studies1989References: 2

    The distinction which is drawn in this article between Appian's Ίλλυριῶν τοὺς Άτιντανούς ( Illyr. 7) and Strabo's Ήπειρῶται δ’ εἰσι... ‘Ατιντᾶνες (326) is of both regional and general importance. If the Atintani were an Illyrian tribe, they lived north of the Via Egnatia; for they were not one of the Illyrian tribes south of that line which were listed by Strabo (326). If the Atintanes were an Epirotic tribe, they lived inland of the Epirote coas…

  • Arms and the King: The Insignia of Alexander the Great

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondARTICLEPhoenix1989Cited by: 3

    ARMS AND ARMOUR ARE SYMBOLS of status a warring society. Macedonian soldiers of the King's Army-the Macedones proper-were inordinately proud of their arms and armour, and that pride was maintained the Indus valley by Alexander's provision of new panoplies inlaid gold and silver (Curt. 9.3.21) and by his naming of the Hypaspists after their silver shields.' It was a cause of distress to them when Alexander gave Macedonian pikes and lances to picke…

  • The expedition of Xerxes

    Open AccessN G L Hammond, Ν G L HammondCHAPTERThe Cambridge Ancient History…1988

    Datis and Artaphernes had shown how vulnerable Athens was to a seaborne attack in order to make a landing on the coast of Attica. Paros was one of the states which had sent a trireme and a crew to serve under Persian command against Athens. Like the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, the Persians relied on huge labour forces for the construction of such public works as the canal dug in the reign of Darius from the Nile to the Red Sea. Persia was just…