Kathēgētēs : studies in ancient history, warfare and art presented to Nick Sekunda on his seventieth birthday / edited by Krzysztof Ulanowski and Bogdan Burliga.
Καθηγητής : studies in ancient history, warfare and art presented to Nick Sekunda on his seventieth birthday edited by Krzysztof Ulanowski and Bogdan Burliga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Ulanowski, Krzysztof, editor.

Burliga, Bogdan, editor.

Sekunda, Nick, 1953- honouree.

Series:

Philippika ; 1613-5628 171.

Philippika, 1613-5628 ; 171

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Military history, Ancient.

History, Ancient.

War in art.

Art, Ancient.

War--History.

War.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Studies in ancient history, warfare and art presented to Nick Sekunda on his seventieth birthday

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023.

Language Note:

Contributions in English, except one in French.

Contents:

A (somewhat personal) introduction

The tribute of Tyre and Sidon according to Assyrian sources

The case of Teumman: the standard ideological procedure in Waging War on the example of Ashurbanipal's campaign against Elam

In the shadow of a Hittite sphynx: big politics and the return of artifacts to their countries of origin

Spartan politics in action

A Helot messacre (?) revisted (Thuc. IV 80.2-4): a commemorative response to Nick Sakunda

Wareface without battle in ancient Greece

Rhetoric and humour in the pseudo-xenophontic Athenaion politicia

Thuc. II 87-89, the Athenian navy, and the origins of Greek military theory

Diodorus of Argyrium (XIV 42.1) on the invention of Τò Καταπελτικὸν in Syracruse under Dionysius I

Caltrops at the battle of Gaugamela

Iranian Satraps and their armed forces under Alexander of Macedonia (media, Parthia-Hyrkania, and Areia)

The Neorion at Delos and its dedicated vessels

Death of Demetrius and the beginnings of the third Macedonian war

'Deserting' to Hades in Phrygia?

The mercenary contract at Iasos (IK 28, I, 2-3): dispute, resolution, and Ptolemaic intervention

Une caractèristique inaperçue de la structure du bouclier hoplitique hellénistique

Army and war in the Coroplast art: ideology of military success in Egyptian terracotta figurines from teh Ptolemaic period

Biography and reality: Themistokles and Aristeides in and beyond Plutarch's lives

Ten passages of Polyainos

A Greek military manuscript in Poland: Kraków, biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. graec. fol. 22 and early scholarship on Byzantine military literature

Crypto-portraits of the Emperor Sigismund: Roman allusions in the 15th-century painting in Oxford.

Notes:

Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783447120586

3447120584

OCLC:

1409785687