Notes on Contributors

Edward M. Anson

is Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Among his recent publications are Philip II, the Father of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues, (Bloomsbury, 2020); Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: A Festschrift Honouring the Career of Elizabeth D. Carney, (Oxbow (co-editor) 2021), and Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Sulochana R. Asirvatham

is Professor of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University. Her research interests include the reception of Alexander the Great and the Macedonians at Rome and in the Alexander-Romance tradition, Greek imperial literature, and ancient historiography. She is the co-editor of Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society (2001) and The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia (2022).

Elizabeth Baynham

is retired from the University of Newcastle, NSW. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her primary research interests are in the areas of Greek history, Greek and Roman historiography and Greek and Roman art; in particular, the reign of Alexander the Great and his Successors. She has published four books including, with A. B. Bosworth Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction (Oxford, 2000). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals and book chapters in edited collections.

Lee L. Brice

is Distinguished University Professor of History, Western Illinois University. He has published volumes on ancient history including most recently Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare (coedited with John Donahue, Brill 2023) and Women and the Army in the Roman Empire (coedited with Elizabeth M. Greene, Cambridge 2024), as well as articles and chapters on Corinthian coinage, military history, teaching, and the Roman army on film. He is series editor of Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World and senior editor of Research Perspectives: Ancient History (Brill).

Elizabeth D. Carney

is Professor of History, Emerita, at Clemson University. She authored Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia, Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great, Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life, King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy and Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power. She coedited Philip II and Alexander the Great, Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty, The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World.

Monica D’Agostini

is Assistant Professor of Greek History at the University of Bergamo. She published contributions on political and military authority in Macedonia and Hellenistic Antiquity with forays into the history of modern political thought and its relation to the Classical heritage. Her works include her volumes The Rise of Philip V. Kingship and Rule in the Hellenistic World, (Alessandria, 2019) and Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin: Between the Italian Enlightenment and the US Constitution, (Washington DC, 2011).

Jenn Finn

is Associate professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She has published widely on all aspects of Mediterranean history, including cross-cultural contacts, Roman reception of the Classical Greek world, and ancient military history. Her second book, Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire (Michigan, 2022).

Waldemar Heckel

is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary and a research fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. His publications include Alexander’s Marshals: A Study of the Makedonian Aristocracy and the Politics of Military Leadership (Routledge); In the Path of Conquest: Resistance to Alexander the Great (Oxford); and The Conquests of Alexander the Great (Cambridge). In 2021, he completed a full-scale revision and expansion of his Alexander prosopography, now titled Who’s Who in the Age of Alexander and his Successors: From Chaironeia to Ipsos (Greenhill/Casemate).

David Karunanithy

is a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary at the British Library in London. He holds two university degrees in history and classics and has had a lifelong interest in ancient warfare, with a particular emphasis on the Macedonian army. He has contributed various articles to specialist history magazines and is to date author of two books: Dogs of War (2008) and The Macedonian War Machine (2013).

Carol J. King

is Associate Professor of Classics at Grenfell Campus Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. Her primary areas of research are Alexander the Great, Argead Macedonia, and the early Hellenistic period of the Successors. She is the author of Ancient Macedonia (Routledge 2018). She holds a PhD from Brown and is an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Regular Member and James Rignall Wheeler Fellow 2001–02.

James Lacey

is the Matthew C. Horner Chair of War Studies at Marine Corps University and the Director of the War and Economics Department at the Marine Corps War College. His most recent books include The Washington War (Bantam), Moment of Battle (Bantam), Great Strategic Rivalries (Oxford), and Rome: Strategy of Empire (Oxford).

Franca Landucci

is Professor of Greek History (L-Ant/02) at the Catholic University of Milan, where she has been teaching since 1993/94. She is member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Arts and Humanities of Catholic University of Milan. She has been studying Hellenistic history for a long time and has published a series of monographs and many papers on the history of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Diadochi.

Alexander Meeus

is Privatdozent at the University of Mannheim and has taught at universities in Belgium, Germany, and the UK. He is the author of The History of the Diadochoi in Book XIX of Diodoros’ Bibliotheke: A Historical and Historiographical Commentary (Berlin 2022) as well as several articles on early Hellenistic history. He has co-edited four volumes, including The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323–276 B.C.) (Leuven 2014) and The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (Stuttgart 2020).

Sabine Müller

is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University. She studied Medieval and Modern History, Art History, and Ancient History. Her research focuses on the Persian Empire, Argead Macedonia, the Hellenistic Empires, Macedonian royal women, Lukian of Samosata, and reception studies. Her publications include the monographs Das hellenistische Herrscherpaar in der medialen Repräsentation—Ptolemaios II. und Arsinoë II. (Berlin 2009), Alexander, Makedonien und Persien (Berlin 2014), Die Argeaden (Paderborn 2016), Perdikkas II.—Retter Makedoniens (Berlin 2017), and Alexander der Große—Eroberung—Politik—Rezeption (Stuttgart 2019). She is co-editor of the Lexicon of Argead Makedonia (Berlin 2020) and The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (London 2021).

Frances Pownall

is Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on Greek historiography and has contributed extensively to Brill’s New Jacoby. Recent publications include Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources (co-edited with T. Howe, Swansea 2018), Lexicon of Argead Macedonia (co-edited with W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, and S. Müller, Berlin 2020), Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity (co-edited with E. M. Anson and M. D’Agostini, Oxford 2020), and The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia (co-edited with S. Asirvatham and S. Müller, Berlin, 2022).

Jeanne Reames

Martin Professor of European History and Director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, has published widely on Alexander, including, The Mourning of Alexander (2001), The Cult of Hephaistion (2010), and Becoming Macedonian (2020). Currently she is at work on a monograph examining Hephaistion and Krateros as both cooperating and clashing figures at the court. She co-edited, with Timothy Howe, Macedonian Legacies: Studies on Ancient Macedonian History and Culture in Honor of Eugene N. Borza (Regina Books, 2008). In addition, she dabbles occasionally in reception studies, works to further knowledge about Macedonia (not just Alexander) in social media spaces, and has even written a pair of novels, Dancing with the Lion: Becoming & Rise (2019) about the young Alexander before he became “the Great.”

Joseph Roisman

is a Professor Emeritus of Classics, Colby College. His recent monographs include: Lycurgus, Against Leocrates. Introduction and Commentary by Joseph Roisman. Translation by Michael Edwards. Clarendon Ancient History Series, Oxford. 2019; The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Changed the History of Warfare. (Oxford, 2017); Lives of the Attic Orators: Texts from Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius and the Suda. Introduction and Commentary by Joseph Roisman and I. Worthington, Translation by Robin Waterfield (Oxford, 2015); Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors (Austin, TX 2012).

Jacek Rzepka

teaches Ancient History at the University of Warsaw. As a researcher Rzepka focuses on political, constitutional, cultural, and military developments in North-Western Greece and Macedon in the Classical period and the Hellenistic Age. He published a number articles on Macedonian history in the reigns of Philip and Alexander in academic journals and collected volumes in English, and two Polish-language monographs on the topic including The Battle of Chaeronea (2011). His most recent book is Greek Federal Terminology (Gdansk 2017).

Matthew A. Sears

is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of Sparta and the Commemoration of War (Cambridge, 2024), Understanding Greek Warfare (Routledge, 2019); Battles and Battlefields of Ancient Greece: A Guide to their History, Topography, and Archaeology (with C. Jacob Butera), (Pen & Sword, 2019); and Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership (Cambridge, 2013).

Carolyn Willekes

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. Her research focuses on the horse-human relationship in antiquity, with a particular interest in the role of the horse in war and sport. She has several publications on equine related topics, including the monograph The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome (I.B. Tauris 2016).

Graham C. L. Wrightson

is Associate Professor of History at South Dakota State University. His research focuses primarily on Macedonian military history with a special focus on military manuals and the sarissa phalanx. He has published multiple articles and papers and three monographs on Macedonian warfare. With Jeff Rop and Conor Whately he is currently working on a two-volume series on combined arms warfare in the Ancient Near East.

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