EDWARD MADDEN ANSON
Professor of History
History Department
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Phone: Work 501 569-8388
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Publications (2003-2009)
Books
Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek among Macedonians. Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: E. J. Brill, 2004.
A Brief History of Civilization to 1600. Boston, New York, et al.: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008, 2004, 2002, 1998, 1996. with James Miller.
A Civilization Primer. Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing, 2002, 1998, 1993, 1988, 1985.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
“Alexander the Great in Current Scholarship,” History Compass 7 (2009)
“Philip II and the Transformation of Macedonia: A Reappraisal,” Macedonian Legacies: Studies in Ancient Macedonian History and Culture in Honor of Eugene N. Borza, ed by Timothy Howe and Jeanne Reames (Regina Books: Claremont, CA, 2008) 17-30.
“Macedonian Judicial Assemblies,” Classical Philology 103 (2) (2008) 135-149.
“TheAgriculturalEconomyofMacedoniapriortotheReignofPhilip II,” From the Remote to the Recent Past, ed. by Kenneth E. Hendricksonand Nicholas C. J. Pappas(Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, 2008) 99-108.
“Early Hellenistic Chronology: The Cuneiform Evidence,” Alexander’s Empire: Formation to Decay , eds. W. Heckel, L. Tritle, P. Wheatley (Regina Books: Claremont Ca, 2007) 193-198.
“ ‘A Commander doesn’t Need Brains, Just a Good Loud Voice,’ ” Interpreting the Past: Essays from the 4th International Conference on European History, ed. by Kenneth E. Hendrickson & Nicolas C.J. Pappas (Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, 2007) 75-82.
“The Chronology of the Third Macedonian War,” Phoenix(Classical Association of Canada) 60 (2006) 226-235.
“Dating the Deaths of Eumenes and Olympias,” Ancient History Bulletin 20 (2006) 1-9.
“Idumaean Ostraca and Early Hellenistic Chronology,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 125 (2005) 263-266
“A Note on the First Regnal Year of Philip III (Arhidaeus),” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 57 (2005) 127-29
“Alexander the Great and Macedonian Judicial Assemblies. ” In Themes in European History: Essays from the 2nd International Conference on
European History, ed. Michael Aradas & Nicholas C.J. Pappas. 89-96.
Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2005.
“Timasion the Dardanian.” In Antiquity and Modernity: A Celebration of European History and Heritage in the Olympic Year 2004. Essays from the 1st International Conference on European History, ed Nicholas C.J. Pappas. 3-12. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2004.
“Alexander at Siwah, “ Ancient World 34 (2003) 117-30.
“The Dating of Perdiccas’ Death and the Assembly at Triparadeisus,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 43 (2003) 373-90.
Accepted for publication
“Philip II and the Creation of the Macedonian Pezhetairoi,” Alexander in the Antipodes. Forthcoming, 2009.
“Greek Ethnicity and the Greek Language,” Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache. Forthcoming, 2009
“Macedonian Studies,” in A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Ed. I. Worthington and J. Roisman (Oxford: Blackwell. Forthcoming, 2009.
“Philip II, Amyntas Perdicca, and Macedonian Royal Succession,” Historia: Zeitschrift fuer alte Geschichte. Forthcoming. 2009
Encyclopedia Articles
52 articles in The International Encyclopedia of Military History. 2
vols..ed. James C. Bradford. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Papers
“The Asthetairoi: Macedonia’s hoplites,” April 5, 2008, Philip II and Alexander III: Father, Son and Dunasteia: Fourth International Symposium on Alexander the
Great, Clemson University, South Carolina
“The Introduction of the Sarisa in Macedonian Warfare,” September 27, 2008, The Age of the Successors, University of Leuven, Leuven and Brussels.
“The Agricultural Economy of Macedonia prior to the Reign of Philip II”
5th International Conference on History, The Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, December 28, 2007.
“Philip II and the Macedonian Revolution,” Arkansas Association of College
History Teachers, Hot Springs, AR, October 5, 2007.
“‘A commander doesn’t need brains, just a good loud voice’,” 4th International Conference on European History: From Ancient to Modern, December 29, 2006,
Athens, Greece.
“Greek Ethnicity and the Greek Language,” Arkansas Association of College
History Teachers, Hot Springs, AR, October 6, 2006; awarded best paper prize.
“Philip II and the Transformation of Macedonia: A Reappraisal,” Alexander and his Successors: Third International Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, August 25, 2006.
‘The Regnal Years of Philip III,” Alexander and After: The Second International Symposium, January 21, 2005, Calgary, Canada (to be published as“Early Hellenistic Chronology: The Cuneiform Evidence.” In Alexander’s Empire: From Formulation to Decay, ed. Waldemar Heckel and P. V. Wheatley. Claremont, CA: Regina Books. Forthcoming, 2006
“Alexander the Great and Macedonian Judicial Assemblies,”2nd International
Conference on European History: From Ancient to Modern, December 29, 2004,
Athens, Greece. (published as “Alexander the Great and Macedonian Judicial Assemblies. ” In Themes in European History: Essays from the 2nd International Conference on European History, ed. Michael Aradas & Nicholas C.J. Pappas. 89-96. Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 2005).
“Ethnicity in an ancient Greek context,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, October 8, 2004, Hot Springs, AR
“Timasion the Dardanian: An examination of Greek ethnicity based on Xenophon’s Anabasis,” delivered at at the International Conference on European History, Athens, Greece, December 29, 2003 (published as “Timasion the Dardanian,” Antiquity and Modernity: A Celebration of European History and Heritage in the Olympic Year 2004. Essays from the 1st International Conference on European History, edited by Nicholas C.J. Pappas (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2004) 3-12.
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