188 research outputs found
Ch. 1. Introduction: Narrative and Interpretation in the Hellenistic Historians
No full textPublished in Alexander Meeus, ed., Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 8), p. 1-22
Why (and how) to regulate Power Exchanges in the EU market integration context?
No full textPower Exchanges (PXs) are key market institutions in open and market-based electricity industries. This paper aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on why and how to regulate Power Exchanges in the EU market integration context. . The paper starts by stating that two different types of PXs have to be distinguished, i.e. "Merchant" PXs and the "Cost of Service Regulated" PXs. The paper continues by comparing the typical incentives of these two types of PXs to perform the basic PX tasks in an isolated national market and in a market integration context. The paper concludes by deriving from this analytical frame the most relevant regulatory actions..Regulation, Exchanges, Grid access, Power Markets.
Hau, Meeus, Sheridan (eds.), “Diodoros of Sicily”
No full textRecensione del volume Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the «Bibliotheke» (Lisa Irene Hau, Alexander Meeus, Brian Sheridan eds.)
Review of Kai Trampedach, Alexander Meeus (edd.), The legitimation of conquest: monarchical representation and the art of government in the empire of Alexander the Great
No full textReview of Kai Trampedach - Alexander Meeus (Eds.), The Legitimation of Conquest. MonarchicalRepresentation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (Studiesin Ancient Monarchies 7), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, pp. 363. ISBN978-3-515-12781-3. € 68.</p
Review of Kai Trampedach, Alexander Meeus (edd.), The legitimation of conquest: monarchical representation and the art of government in the empire of Alexander the Great
No full textReview of Kai Trampedach - Alexander Meeus (Eds.), The Legitimation of Conquest. MonarchicalRepresentation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (Studiesin Ancient Monarchies 7), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, pp. 363. ISBN978-3-515-12781-3. € 68.</p
De territoriale ambities van de diadochen in de eerste jaren na de dood van Alexander de Grote (323-320 v.C.)
No full textScholars almost universally agree that there were two tendencies among the Successors of Alexander the Great: while some are assumed to have aimed at gaining control of Alexander’s entire empire, others supposedly were content with a part of it. This paper will question the foundations of this communis opinio, as both Diodorus Siculus and Cornelius Nepos explicitly state that all the Successors wanted to lay their hands on the entire realm and no ancient author mentions any separatist tendencies. A new assessment might show that many of the alleged signs of separatism in the early Successor era can also be interpreted in other ways
Alexander and Asia Minor: Conquest and Strategies of Legitimation
No full textThe theme of the impact and forms of legitimation of Alexander’s conquest in Asia Minor is a complex question, not only owing to the broad scope of the subject but, above all, as a result of the direction taken by scholarship over the last decades, where research perspectives have become more and more articulated and diversified and have widened well beyond the mere question of the nature of political relations established by Alexander with the Greek communities of the coast. While in the past scholars’ efforts had the primary objective of establishing, on the basis of the scanty documentation available, whether the Greek poleis of the Asiatic coast became part of the League of Corinth or not, more recent approaches, with a reversal of the vantage-point, have aimed instead at placing Alexander’s conquest of Asia Minor within the context of the much wider phenomenon of the ‘transition’ from the Persian empire to the Hellenistic kingdoms. This line of investigation has led, on the one hand, to underlining the significance of the Achaemenid administrative tradition and exploring the ways in which it came to interact with the Macedonian one, and, on the other hand, to probing into areas of continuity and discontinuity.
In this paper I intend to take stock of a limited number of issues by means of some case studies, in articular: 1) Alexander, the Greek cities and ‘royal economy’; 2) the impact of Alexander’s conquest as illustrated by the paradigmatic cases of Ilion, Priene and Iasos.
It is concluded that the origin of Alexander’s authority was rooted in the charismatic dimension, more recisely in the elaborate rituals he staged before and after crossing the Hellespont, in his heroic connections and models, in his successfully seizing control of the coastal cities of Asia Minor and, ultimately, in his selfpresentation as the liberator of the Greeks (as well as, as we have seen, of the Lydians and Carians), and new founder of some of their poleis, but the forms concretely taken by his power were shaped by the subsystems and long-established customs he integrated into his new structure of authority. In Weberian terms, this was largely achieved both with respect to the Greek ethnic component and to the native population in accordance with tradition, ensuring continuity in the functioning of the administrative and tributary structures of the Achaemenid empire.
Moreover, if it is in fact undeniable that in principle the arrival of Alexander entailed the ‘liberation’ of such poleis, and, together with it, the exemption from tribute and establishment of democracies, the case of Priene, exemplifying the complexity of problems and solutions adopted, becomes emblematic: in defining the boundaries of the city’s land, and acting as guarantor for the ensuing territorial organisation, Alexander could only respond to requests that were advanced by the polis itself and, one can suppose, in the first place by its political elite. On the Weberian principle that ‘die Natur der Herrschaft von den Beherrschten aus zu bestimmen ist’, this defines Alexander’s authority and decision-making, at least in the perception of his ‘audience’, in terms of legal power.
In other words, the legitimation of Alexander’s power in Asia Minor was the result of a combination of different factors involving all three Herrschaftsformen described as Idealtypen
by M. Weber
Power and legitimacy: Alexander the Great
No full textRecensie van Kai Trampedach en Alexander Meeus (red.), The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great. Studies in Ancient Monarchies 7 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020)
Macht en legitimatie: Alexander de Grote
No full textRecensie van Kai Trampedach en Alexander Meeus (red.), The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great. Studies in Ancient Monarchies 7 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020)
A monograph on Alexander the Great within a Universal History: Diodoros, Book XVII
No full textIn the XVIIth Book of the Bibliotheke, the first item after the prologue is the birth of Alexander and the last is the account of his death and alleged poisoning: this is the only book devoted to a single man and exclusively containing information related to his deeds. This paper analyzes the structure of XVIIth Book, and specifically Diodoros’ portrait of Alexander, in order to define whether the Book may deserve the name of monograph or has biographic features. The paper also aims at emphasizing the role of this Book within the whole Bibliotheke as a way to understand how Diodoros organized his work
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