The Complex Friendships of Alexander the Great : Loyalty, Love, Advantage, and Intrigue

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Author(s):	Roisman, Joseph
ISBN No.:	9781477334683
Pages:	240
Year:	202701
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Introduction 0.1. Identifying Alexander?s Friends 0.2. The Meaning of Royal Friendship: Aristotle and Alexander?s Friends Chapter 1. Alexander?s Macedonian Friends: Making, Breaking, and Restoring Friendships 1.1. Making Macedonian Friends 1.

2. The Vicissitudes of Friendship Chapter 2. Categories of Friends 2.1. Alexander?s Primary Friends 2.2. Alexander?s Best Friend: Hephaestion 2.3.

The Flatterers Chapter 3. Expectations of Friends 3.1. Loyalty and Protection 3.2. Friends in Crisis and Hardship 3.2a. The Conspiracy of Alexander of Lyncestis, Son of Aeropus 3.

2b. The Philotas Conspiracy 3.2c. The Cleitus Affair 3.2d. The Army Mutinies and Hephaestion?s Death 3.2d. The Army Mutinies and Hephaestion?s Death 3.

3. Sharing and Partnership 3.4. You?ve Got to Tell Him Chapter 4. Useful Friends 4.1. Appointments and Assignments 4.2.

Friends in Council Chapter 5. Marks and Social Settings of Friendship 5.1. Proximity and Access to Alexander 5.2. Purple Dress 5.3. Gestures, Lifestyle, and Burial 5.

3a. Gestures 5.3b. Lifestyle and Burial 5.4. Social Settings of Friendship 5.4a. Banquets 5.

4b. Hunts Chapter 6. Friends and Gifts 6.1. Alexander?s Gifts to Friends 6.2. Gifts to Alexander and Reciprocity 6.3.

Refusing Alexander?s Gifts 6.4. Friends? Gifts Chapter 7. Alexander?s Foreign Friends, Part I 7.1. Greek and Non-Greek Companions 7.1a. Abdalonymus of Sidon 7.

1b. Demaratus of Corinth 7.1c. Hagnon of Teos 7.1d. Medius of Larissa 7.1e. Oxyathres 7.

1f. Stasanor of Soli 7.2. Guest-Friends (Xenoi) and State Representatives (Proxenoi) 7.2a. Aeschines of Athens 7.2b. Artabazus 7.

2c. Demaratus of Corinth 7.2d. Phocion of Athens 7.2e. Theban Xenoi and Proxenoi 7.3. Foreign Individuals, Cities, and Tribes 7.

3a. Anaxarchus of Abdera 7.3b. A Boeotian Soldier 7.3c. Calanus 7.3d. A Chian Friend 7.

3e. Danubian Tribes 7.3f. Flatterers 7.3g. Gorgus of Iasus 7.3h. Philip of Arcarnania 7.

3i. Selge 7.3j. Syrmus, King of the Triballians Chapter 8. Alexander?s Foreign Friends, Part II 8.1. Friends and Allies 8.1a.

Celts 8.1b. Cyrene 8.1c. Cyzicus 8.1d. Darius? Peace Proposals 8.1e.

European Scythians and Other Embassies to Alexander in Maracanda and Babylon 8.1f. Pharasmanes 8.1g. Taxiles 8.1h. Tyre 8.2.

Friendship and Surrender 8.2a. Musicanus 8.2b. Nysa and Acuphis 8.2c. Oxyartes 8.2d.

Phaselis 8.2e. Porus 8.2f. ?Bad? or Cousin Porus 8.2g. Sisimithres 8.2h.

Taxiles 8.3. Questionable Foreign Friends 8.3a. Hamilcar Rhodanus of Carthage 8.3b. Iphicrates, Son of Iphicrates, of Athens 8.3c.

Langarus 8.3d. Mazarus 8.3e. Pnytagoras 8.3f. Polydamas 8.3g.

Sisines 8.3h. Xenocrates of Chalcedon 8.4. Conclusion Conclusion Appendix. Alexander?s Friends Bibliography Index.

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