A B Bosworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A B Bosworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | A B |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosworth |
| SIGNATURE | BOSWORTH A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
American Journal of Ancient History
Ingenium und Macht: Fritz Schachermeyr and Alexander The Great
Arrian, Alexander, and the Pursuit of Glory
In his famous “Second Preface” Arrian asserts his determination to do justice to Alexander's achievements. No single man could lay claim to successes of such magnitude and in such profusion, and Arrian boasts that he has the literary talent to commemorate them as they deserve. He expresses himself in Herodotean terms and indirectly echoes Herodotus' ambition to immortalize the exploits which he regards as great and remarkable. For Arrian, Alexand…
Alexander the Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic Age
“The name of Alexander marks the end of one age of the world, the beginning of another.” This lapidary and much-quoted apophthegm is the starting point of Johann Gustav Droysen’s revised Geschichte des Hellenismus. It appeared in 1877, when Droysenwas in his seventieth year, at the peak of his powers and reputation, and the republication was a tribute to the notoriety that his work had achieved at the time of Germany’s unification. His vision of …
The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World
This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the Hellenistic world - religion, philosophy, family, economy, material culture, and military campaigns, among other topics. The essays address key questions about this period: To what extent were Alex…
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich. Frankfurt am Main: Buchverlag Marte Clauss 2002. 194 S. (Frankfurter althistorische Beiträge. 9.)
Mountain and molehill? Cornelius Tacitus and Quintus Curtius
It has long been recognized that there are many verbal similarities between Tacitus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, the Roman historian of Alexander the Great.As early as 1887, Friedrich Walter listed some 600 instances, ranging from the remarkable to the commonplace, 1 and the key passages have been episodically rediscovered over the intervening years. 2 In Walter's view the resemblances could not be fortuitous, nor could Tacitus be borrowing from Cu…
Vespasian and the slave trade
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The historical context of Thucydides' Funeral Oration
For all its celebrity, Thucydides' Funeral Speech remains an enigma. ‘Unquantifiably authentic’ is how one scholar describes it, and the description betrays a measure of despair. We feel that the speech is authentic in some sense of the word. To some degree it corresponds to what Pericles actually said in the winter of 431/30 BC, but the degree of correspondence is a mystery. All agree that Thucydides framed the speech in his own words and integr…
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
This book comprises ten contributions by leading scholars, and represents the most advanced writing in the field. They display a rich variety of methodologies, combining historical reconstruction and historiographical research. The volume includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east, an analysis of the attested conspiracies at the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and th…
The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica
Title Pages
A Historical Commentary On Arrian’S History Of Alexander
This, the second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian, deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyses Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity. Professor Bosworth is the leading authority on Arrian, and his commentary should become a classic work of reference f…
Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
THE ACCESSION, 336–335 B.C. This and the following chapter are intended to provide an outline survey of the reign of Alexander. The king himself is central to the narrative, for the vast preponderance of the source tradition deals explicitly with his actions. Events, however important, in which he was not the protagonist depend on chance testimonia. The subject of this first chapter is the campaign and court history of the reign, the details of t…
Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
MAINLAND GREECE IN ALEXANDER'S REIGN THE DOMINANCE OF THE CORINTHIAN LEAGUE, 336–330 B.C. During Alexander's reign the Greek world was controlled by the political system established after Chaeronea, which modern scholars have conveniently labelled the Corinthian League. This was primarily an alliance under the leadership of the Macedonian king, in which all states which had individual treaties with Macedon were organized in a single structure, di…
A New Macedonian Prince
One of the more intriguing figures of the first period of the Successors is Nicanor, the lieutenant and admiral of Cassander. He came into prominence when he assumed command of the Macedonian garrison at Athens, late in 319 B.c . After distinguishing himself there he took a fleet to the Bosporus, where with Antigonus' collaboration he won a decisive victory over Polyperchon's royal navy. Subsequently his aspirations became sufficiently lofty to t…
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of …
Perdiccas and the Kings
New evidence often complicates as much as it clarifies. That truth is well illustrated by Stephen Tracy's recent and brilliant discovery that a tiny unpublished fragment of an Attic inscription belongs to a known decree ( IG ii. 402). The decree has hitherto been recognised as an enactment of the oligarchy imposed by Antipater in 322. Its proposer, Archedicus of Lamptrae, was a leading member of the new regime and held the most influential office…
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
Arrian at the Caspian Gates: A Study in Methodology
In a recent article Professor Brunt has made an eloquent plea for greater rigour in handling the remains of non-extant authors. When the original is lost and we depend I upon quotation, paraphrase or mere citation by later authorities, we must first establish the reliability of the source which supplies the fragment. There is obviously a world of difference between the long verbal quotations in Athenaeus and the disjointed epitomes provided by th…
Arrian of Nicomedia
A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length study of Arrian in English in this century, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Greek historiography and of the intellectual life…
Errors in Arrian
Arrian is regarded as the most authoritative of the extant sources for the reign of Alexander the Great. It is his work that is usually chosen to provide the narrative core of modern histories, and very often a mere reference to ‘the reliable Arrian’ is considered sufficient to guarantee the veracity of the information derived from him. What gives Arrian his prestige is his reliance on contemporary sources, Ptolemy and Aristobulus. It is recogniz…
The Mission of Amphoterus and the Outbreak of Agis' War
MUCH ATTENTION has recently been devoted to the ill-fated war which the Spartan king, Agis III, waged against the Macedonian domination of Greece.' Rightly so, for the episode is of crucial importance in determining the strength of Greek resistance to the military and political predominance of Macedon and still more in assessing the priorities of Alexander the Great, once he had turned his back on the Mediterranean seaboard. Unfortunately the ext…
Studies in Lucian
A book about ancient Greek satirist Lucian in his cultural and historical context. My conclusion is that we need hardly ever look outside the second century for the immediate and personal sources of Lucian's inspiration. -- Barry Baldwin
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of …
The Mission of Amphoterus and the Outbreak of Agis' War
MUCH ATTENTION has recently been devoted to the ill-fated war which the Spartan king, Agis III, waged against the Macedonian domination of Greece.' Rightly so, for the episode is of crucial importance in determining the strength of Greek resistance to the military and political predominance of Macedon and still more in assessing the priorities of Alexander the Great, once he had turned his back on the Mediterranean seaboard. Unfortunately the ext…
Arrian's Literary Development
There is relative agreement among modern scholars that the bulk of Arrian's literary activity came late in his life. What has become the standard theory was evolved by Eduard Schwartz, who maintained that it was only after the end of his public career that Arrian turned to writing. According to this hypothesis the Пєρίπλους of 131/ A.D. was a tentative preliminary monograph, which was followed in 136/7 by a work of similar genre, the
Philip II and Upper Macedonia
One of the most enigmatic figures in Macedonian history is Alexander of Lyncestis, son of Aeropus and son-in-law of the great Antipater. During the reign of his royal namesake he achieved sensational prominence, deposed from his command of the élite Thessalian cavalry under suspicion of treasonable correspondence with the Persian court. Still more sensational, however, is his involvement in the murder of Philip II. Our sources are unanimous that …
Arrian of Nicomedia
A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length study of Arrian in English in this century, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Greek historiography and of the intellectual life…
Errors in Arrian
Arrian is regarded as the most authoritative of the extant sources for the reign of Alexander the Great. It is his work that is usually chosen to provide the narrative core of modern histories, and very often a mere reference to ‘the reliable Arrian’ is considered sufficient to guarantee the veracity of the information derived from him. What gives Arrian his prestige is his reliance on contemporary sources, Ptolemy and Aristobulus. It is recogniz…
A Historical Commentary On Arrian’S History Of Alexander
This, the second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian, deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyses Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity. Professor Bosworth is the leading authority on Arrian, and his commentary should become a classic work of reference f…
The Government of Syria Under Alexander the Great
Alexander's satrapal appointments in Syria have long been a focal point of scholarly dissension, for the relevant passages in the ancient sources are uniformly inconsistent and sometimes disconcertingly corrupt. A running debate continued until 1935, when Oscar Leuze presented a monumental survey of the ancient evidence together with exhaustive refutation of the hypotheses advanced by earlier scholars. Since then the problems of Syria under Alexa…
The Death of Alexander the Great: Rumour and Propaganda
Propaganda and history are often inseparable. Most governments are in a position to control the dissemination of evidence, and if an event is embarrassing or damaging, the relevant evidence is certain to be distorted or withheld. Moreover the writers of history, however innocent their motives, cannot disregard the official apologia of their rulers. One notes with interest that the learned authors of the official Soviet history of the world portra…
Mountain and molehill? Cornelius Tacitus and Quintus Curtius
It has long been recognized that there are many verbal similarities between Tacitus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, the Roman historian of Alexander the Great.As early as 1887, Friedrich Walter listed some 600 instances, ranging from the remarkable to the commonplace, 1 and the key passages have been episodically rediscovered over the intervening years. 2 In Walter's view the resemblances could not be fortuitous, nor could Tacitus be borrowing from Cu…
Aσφetaipoi
Ii is a well-known fact that the men of the Macedonian phalanx under Philip and Alexander were known collectively as or ‘foot companions’. Our first reference to the name comes from Demosthenes, who in his second Olynthiac tries unconvincingly to disparage the fighting qualities of Philip's mercenaries and Demosthenes adds no explanation, and it was left to commentators and lexicographers to unearth a relevant fragment from the Philippica of Anax…
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
This book comprises ten contributions by leading scholars, and represents the most advanced writing in the field. They display a rich variety of methodologies, combining historical reconstruction and historiographical research. The volume includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east, an analysis of the attested conspiracies at the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and th…
The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica
Perdiccas and the Kings
New evidence often complicates as much as it clarifies. That truth is well illustrated by Stephen Tracy's recent and brilliant discovery that a tiny unpublished fragment of an Attic inscription belongs to a known decree ( IG ii. 402). The decree has hitherto been recognised as an enactment of the oligarchy imposed by Antipater in 322. Its proposer, Archedicus of Lamptrae, was a leading member of the new regime and held the most influential office…
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
Vespasian and the slave trade
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A New Macedonian Prince
One of the more intriguing figures of the first period of the Successors is Nicanor, the lieutenant and admiral of Cassander. He came into prominence when he assumed command of the Macedonian garrison at Athens, late in 319 B.c . After distinguishing himself there he took a fleet to the Bosporus, where with Antigonus' collaboration he won a decisive victory over Polyperchon's royal navy. Subsequently his aspirations became sufficiently lofty to t…
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich. Frankfurt am Main: Buchverlag Marte Clauss 2002. 194 S. (Frankfurter althistorische Beiträge. 9.)
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
Arrian at the Caspian Gates: A Study in Methodology
In a recent article Professor Brunt has made an eloquent plea for greater rigour in handling the remains of non-extant authors. When the original is lost and we depend I upon quotation, paraphrase or mere citation by later authorities, we must first establish the reliability of the source which supplies the fragment. There is obviously a world of difference between the long verbal quotations in Athenaeus and the disjointed epitomes provided by th…
The Death of Alexander the Great: Rumour and Propaganda
Propaganda and history are often inseparable. Most governments are in a position to control the dissemination of evidence, and if an event is embarrassing or damaging, the relevant evidence is certain to be distorted or withheld. Moreover the writers of history, however innocent their motives, cannot disregard the official apologia of their rulers. One notes with interest that the learned authors of the official Soviet history of the world portra…
Philip II and Upper Macedonia
One of the most enigmatic figures in Macedonian history is Alexander of Lyncestis, son of Aeropus and son-in-law of the great Antipater. During the reign of his royal namesake he achieved sensational prominence, deposed from his command of the élite Thessalian cavalry under suspicion of treasonable correspondence with the Persian court. Still more sensational, however, is his involvement in the murder of Philip II. Our sources are unanimous that …
Arrian's Literary Development
There is relative agreement among modern scholars that the bulk of Arrian's literary activity came late in his life. What has become the standard theory was evolved by Eduard Schwartz, who maintained that it was only after the end of his public career that Arrian turned to writing. According to this hypothesis the Пєρίπλους of 131/ A.D. was a tentative preliminary monograph, which was followed in 136/7 by a work of similar genre, the
Aσφetaipoi
Ii is a well-known fact that the men of the Macedonian phalanx under Philip and Alexander were known collectively as or ‘foot companions’. Our first reference to the name comes from Demosthenes, who in his second Olynthiac tries unconvincingly to disparage the fighting qualities of Philip's mercenaries and Demosthenes adds no explanation, and it was left to commentators and lexicographers to unearth a relevant fragment from the Philippica of Anax…
The Government of Syria Under Alexander the Great
Alexander's satrapal appointments in Syria have long been a focal point of scholarly dissension, for the relevant passages in the ancient sources are uniformly inconsistent and sometimes disconcertingly corrupt. A running debate continued until 1935, when Oscar Leuze presented a monumental survey of the ancient evidence together with exhaustive refutation of the hypotheses advanced by earlier scholars. Since then the problems of Syria under Alexa…
The Mission of Amphoterus and the Outbreak of Agis' War
MUCH ATTENTION has recently been devoted to the ill-fated war which the Spartan king, Agis III, waged against the Macedonian domination of Greece.' Rightly so, for the episode is of crucial importance in determining the strength of Greek resistance to the military and political predominance of Macedon and still more in assessing the priorities of Alexander the Great, once he had turned his back on the Mediterranean seaboard. Unfortunately the ext…
Studies in Lucian
A book about ancient Greek satirist Lucian in his cultural and historical context. My conclusion is that we need hardly ever look outside the second century for the immediate and personal sources of Lucian's inspiration. -- Barry Baldwin
Errors in Arrian
Arrian is regarded as the most authoritative of the extant sources for the reign of Alexander the Great. It is his work that is usually chosen to provide the narrative core of modern histories, and very often a mere reference to ‘the reliable Arrian’ is considered sufficient to guarantee the veracity of the information derived from him. What gives Arrian his prestige is his reliance on contemporary sources, Ptolemy and Aristobulus. It is recogniz…
Arrian of Nicomedia
A comprehensive picture of the life and work of a major figure among the Greek-speaking authors of the Roman Empire. Arrian is our most reliable source for Alexander the Great and the author of three other major historical works and a number of shorter essays and treatises. This, the first book-length study of Arrian in English in this century, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Greek historiography and of the intellectual life…
Arrian at the Caspian Gates: A Study in Methodology
In a recent article Professor Brunt has made an eloquent plea for greater rigour in handling the remains of non-extant authors. When the original is lost and we depend I upon quotation, paraphrase or mere citation by later authorities, we must first establish the reliability of the source which supplies the fragment. There is obviously a world of difference between the long verbal quotations in Athenaeus and the disjointed epitomes provided by th…
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
From Arrian to Alexander: Studies in Historical Interpretation
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of …
Perdiccas and the Kings
New evidence often complicates as much as it clarifies. That truth is well illustrated by Stephen Tracy's recent and brilliant discovery that a tiny unpublished fragment of an Attic inscription belongs to a known decree ( IG ii. 402). The decree has hitherto been recognised as an enactment of the oligarchy imposed by Antipater in 322. Its proposer, Archedicus of Lamptrae, was a leading member of the new regime and held the most influential office…
Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
THE ACCESSION, 336–335 B.C. This and the following chapter are intended to provide an outline survey of the reign of Alexander. The king himself is central to the narrative, for the vast preponderance of the source tradition deals explicitly with his actions. Events, however important, in which he was not the protagonist depend on chance testimonia. The subject of this first chapter is the campaign and court history of the reign, the details of t…
Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
MAINLAND GREECE IN ALEXANDER'S REIGN THE DOMINANCE OF THE CORINTHIAN LEAGUE, 336–330 B.C. During Alexander's reign the Greek world was controlled by the political system established after Chaeronea, which modern scholars have conveniently labelled the Corinthian League. This was primarily an alliance under the leadership of the Macedonian king, in which all states which had individual treaties with Macedon were organized in a single structure, di…
A New Macedonian Prince
One of the more intriguing figures of the first period of the Successors is Nicanor, the lieutenant and admiral of Cassander. He came into prominence when he assumed command of the Macedonian garrison at Athens, late in 319 B.c . After distinguishing himself there he took a fleet to the Bosporus, where with Antigonus' collaboration he won a decisive victory over Polyperchon's royal navy. Subsequently his aspirations became sufficiently lofty to t…
Title Pages
A Historical Commentary On Arrian’S History Of Alexander
This, the second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian, deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great. It discusses some of the earliest datable evidence for the history of Central Asia and Pakistan, and analyses Alexander's views of sovereignty and divinity. Professor Bosworth is the leading authority on Arrian, and his commentary should become a classic work of reference f…
The Historical Setting of Megasthenes' Indica
The historical context of Thucydides' Funeral Oration
For all its celebrity, Thucydides' Funeral Speech remains an enigma. ‘Unquantifiably authentic’ is how one scholar describes it, and the description betrays a measure of despair. We feel that the speech is authentic in some sense of the word. To some degree it corresponds to what Pericles actually said in the winter of 431/30 BC, but the degree of correspondence is a mystery. All agree that Thucydides framed the speech in his own words and integr…
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
This book comprises ten contributions by leading scholars, and represents the most advanced writing in the field. They display a rich variety of methodologies, combining historical reconstruction and historiographical research. The volume includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east, an analysis of the attested conspiracies at the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and th…
Vespasian and the slave trade
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Mountain and molehill? Cornelius Tacitus and Quintus Curtius
It has long been recognized that there are many verbal similarities between Tacitus and Quintus Curtius Rufus, the Roman historian of Alexander the Great.As early as 1887, Friedrich Walter listed some 600 instances, ranging from the remarkable to the commonplace, 1 and the key passages have been episodically rediscovered over the intervening years. 2 In Walter's view the resemblances could not be fortuitous, nor could Tacitus be borrowing from Cu…
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich
Christoph Schäfer: Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich. Frankfurt am Main: Buchverlag Marte Clauss 2002. 194 S. (Frankfurter althistorische Beiträge. 9.)
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