Edward M. Anson, BA, PhD
Distinguished Professor of History


Courses:
History of Civilization (HIST 1311)
Hellenistic Age (HIST 3303)
History of Ideas (SCHL 2301) (Antiquity through Reformation)
Courses Taught
-
History of Civilization
-
Ancient Greece
-
Hellenistic Age
-
Roman Republic
-
Roman Empire
-
History of Ideas (Antiquity through Reformation)
-
Graduate/Undergraduate seminar on Alexander the Great
-
Graduate/Undergraduate seminar on Athenian Empire
-
Graduate/Undergraduate seminar on Roman Revolution

PUBLICATIONS




Works by Edward M. Anson
Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek among Macedonians (E. J. Brill, 2004); second revised
edition, 2015 (E. J. Brill).
Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues (Bloomsbury Academic: 2013)
Alexander’s Heirs: The Age of the Successors (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Philip II, the Father of Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Ptolemy I (Soter): Themes and Issues (Bloomsbury Academic: 2023)
After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC). Co-editor Victor Alonso Troncoso (Oxbow Books: 2013)
Affective relations and personal bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: A Festschrift honouring the career of Elizabeth D. Carney. Co-editors Frances Pownall and Monica , (Oxbow Books : 2021)
A Civilization Primer (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001 [5 th ed.], 1998, 1993, 1988, 1983);
nominated for the 1991 American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize for the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history.
A Brief History of Civilization to 1600 (McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008 [5 th ed.], 2004,
2003, 1998, 1996) with James Miller. Continually revised since 2015, when it was placed online and given free to enrolled students.









Selected Articles and Book Chapters
-
“The Foundation of Alexandria.” International Journal of Military History and
Historiography. Advance online publication. 2021: 1-23; 2022 vol. 42: 300-322.
-
“Alexander the Great: A Life Lived as Legend,” in Alexander the Great and Propaganda. Taylor
and Francis. London. 2021.
-
“Philip and Alexander and the Nature of Their Personal Kingship,” In The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia. De Gruyter Academic Publishers, 2021 17-31.
-
“Hellenistic Warfare.” Wiley/Blackwell’s Companion to Greek Warfare. Wiley/Blackwell. 2021:
31-41.
-
“The Father of the Army: Alexander and the Epigoni,” in Affective relations and personal bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: A Festschrift honouring the career of Elizabeth D. Carney. Oxbow. 2020.
-
“Ptolemy and the Destruction of the First Regency,” in Ptolemy Soter: A Self-Made Man, Oxbow Books. 2018: 21-35.
-
“Fortress Egypt: The Abortive Invasions of 320 and 306 B.C.” In Alexander’s Legacy. Bearzot, C, Landucci, F. (eds.). L’erma di Bretschneider. Rome. 2016: 85-96. Appeared in 2017.
-
“Philip’s Ambitions.” in Hetairideia: Studies in Honor of W. Lindsay Adams on the Occasion of
His Retirement. Ares Publishers, Chicago, 2016: 19-30.
-
“Alexander at the Beas.” In East and West in the Empire of Alexander: Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth. Baynham, E., and Wheatley, P. eds. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 2015: 65-74
-
“‘Shock and Awe’” à la Alexander the Great.” In The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World. Heckel, W., Müller, S., Wrightson, eds. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2015: 215-235.
-
“Counter-Insurgency: The Lessons of Alexander the Great,” in Greece, Macedon, and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History, A Festschrift honoring Waldemar Heckel, T. Howe, G. Wrightson, and E. Garvin, editors, Oxbow Books, 2015: 94-106.
-
“Discrimination and Eumenes of Kardia Revisited,” in The Age of the Successors. H. Hauben and A. Meeus (eds.). 2014. Peeters Academic Publishers: Leuven, Belgium, 2015; 539-58.
-
“The Macedonian Patriot: The Diadoch Craterus.” in The Ancient History Bulletin 26 (2013): 49-58.
-
“Greek Ethnicity and the Greek Language,” Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache. 85 (2009): 5-30
-
“The Asthetairoi: Macedonia’s Hoplites,” in Philip II and Alexander III: Father, Son and Dunasteia, Carney, E., and Ogden, D. (eds/). Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2010: 81-90
-
“The Introduction of the Sarisa in Macedonian Warfare,” Ancient Society. 2010: 51-68.
-
“Dating the Deaths of Eumenes and Olympias,” Ancient History Bulletin 20 (2006) pages 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
-
“Philip II, Amyntas Perdicca, and Macedonian Royal Succession,” Historia: Zeitschrift fur late Geschichte 58 (2009) 276-86.
-
“Philip II and the Creation of the Macedonian Pezhetairoi,” in Alexander in the Antipodes, ed. by Pat Wheatley and Robert Hannah (Regina Books: Claremont, CA, 2009) 88-98.
-
“Macedonian Judicial Assemblies,” Classical Philology 103 (2) (2008) 135-149.
Selected Encyclopedia Articles
-
“Eumenes of Cardia,” “Epitropos,” “Ephemerides,” and “The Army Assembly,” for The Lexicon of Argead Macedonia. Franke and Timme 2019
-
“Hellenistic Warfare,” for Wiley-Blackwell’s Companion to Greek Warfare. 2019
-
“The Rise of Macedon, 359–336 BC,” The Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles. Wiley-Blackwell. 2017: 480-495
-
“The Wars of the Successors, 323–281 BC,” The Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles. Wiley-Blackwell. 2017: 584-604
-
“Eumenes of Cardia,” Online Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. 2010