Edward M. Anson, BA, PhD

​Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• “To the Ends of the World: What the Campaign Was All About?” In The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great. Cambridge University Press. 2024.

• “Modern Military Terminology and Ancient Practices.” In Brill’s Companion to the Campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Anson (ed.) 2024.
   

• “We Are The Champions”: The Underlying Reality of Ancient War.” In Brill’s Companion to the Campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Anson (ed.) 2024.
   

• “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.

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• “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.

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• “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

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• “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.