Arrian’s fragments are also collected in the second volume of the Teubner Arrian, edited by A. Roos and G. Wirth (1967). Two recently discovered fragments have not yet been incorporated into either Jacoby or the Teubner text. The best versions of these two fragments can be found in, respectively, A. B. Bosworth, “Eumenes, Neoptolemus and PSIXII 1284,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies19 (1978), 227–37, and B. Dreyer, “The Arrian Parchment in Gothenburg: New Digital Processing Methods and Initial Results,” in W. Heckel et al. (eds.), Alexander’s Empire: Formulation to Decay(Claremont: Regina, 2007), 245–63. There is a translation of and brief historical commentary on a few of the fragments by W. Goralski, “Arrian’s Events after Alexander: Summary of Photius and Selected Fragments,” Ancient World19 (1989), 81–108.
TRANSLATIONS OF LITERARY SOURCES
Translations of the relevant works by Appian, Diodorus, Nepos, and Plutarch can most easily be found in the Loeb Classical Library series, published by Harvard University Press. These translations tend to be a bit old-fashioned, however; in fact, those of Diodorus and Appian are out of copyright, and also available on the Web. Otherwise, for Curtius: Quintus Curtius Rufus: The History of Alexander, trans. by J. C. Yardley, introduction by W. Heckel (London: Penguin, 1984). And for Justin: Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, trans. by J. C. Yardley, introduction by R. Develin (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994).
Excerpts from the literary sources, along with translations of inscriptions, cuneiform texts, and papyri, have been collected in a number of sourcebooks:
Ager, S., 1996, Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90BC(Berkeley: University of California Press). [inscriptions and literary sources]
*Austin, M., 2006,
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation
(2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [literary sources, inscriptions, papyri]
Bagnall, R., and Derow, P., 2004,
The Hellenistic Period: Historical Texts in Translation
(2nd ed., Oxford: Blackwell) (1st ed. title:
Greek Historical Documents: The Hellenistic Period
). [inscriptions and papyri]
Burstein, S., 1985,
The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [literary sources, inscriptions, papyri]
Grant, F., 1953,
Hellenistic Religions: The Age of Syncretism
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill). [inscriptions and literary sources]
Harding, P., 1985,
From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [inscriptions and literary sources]
*Heckel, W., n.d.,
The Successors of Alexander the Great: A Sourcebook
(
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~heckelw/grst341/Sourcebook.pdf
). [almost entirely literary sources]
Heckel, W., and Yardley, J. C., 2004,
Alexander the Great: Historical Texts in Translation
(Oxford: Blackwell). [literary sources]
Inwood, B., and Gerson, L., 1997,
Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
(2nd ed., Indianapolis: Hackett). [literary sources]
Sage, M., 1996,
Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook
(London: Routledge). [literary sources, inscriptions, papyri]
Van der Spek, R., and Finkel, I., n.d.,
Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period
(
http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/chron00.html
). [cuneiform sources]
Welles, C. B., 1934/1974,
Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period
(New Haven: Yale University Press; repr. Chicago: Ares). [inscriptions]
Dating the Early Hellenistic Period
The dating of events in the first dozen years of this period is highly complex and controversial. There are two basic dating schemes, but many scholars nowadays tweak one or the other rather than adopt either wholesale. For a good introduction, see P. Wheatley, “An Introduction to the Chronological Problems in Early Diadoch Sources and Scholarship,” in W. Heckel et al. (eds.), Alexander’s Empire: Formulation to Decay(Claremont: Regina, 2007), 179–92. In this book, I have followed the most recent work on this intractable problem, which is that of T. Boiy in his Between High and Low: A Chronology of the Early Hellenistic Period(Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008). Boiy also includes a definitive bibliography (up to 2007), to which the interested reader is referred.
SECONDARY LITERATURE
Abel, F.-M., 1937, “L’expédition des grecs à Pétra en 312 avant J.-C.,”
Revue Biblique
46, 373–91.
Adams, W. L., 1983, “The Dynamics of Internal Macedonian Politics in the Time of Cassander,”
Ancient Macedonia
3, 2–30.
Adams, W. L., 1984, “Antipater and Cassander: Generalship on Restricted Resources in the Fourth Century,”
Ancient World
10, 79–88.
Adams, W. L., 1986, “Macedonian Kingship and the Right of Petition,”
Ancient Macedonia
4, 43–52.
Adams, W. L., 1991, “Cassander, Alexander IV and the Tombs at Vergina,”
Ancient World
22, 27–33.
Adams, W. L., 1997, “The Successors of Alexander,” in L. Tritle (ed.),
The Greek World in the Fourth Century
(London: Routledge), 228–48.
*Adams, W. L., 2004,
Alexander the Great: Legacy of a Conqueror
(London: Longman).
Adams, W. L., 2006, “The Hellenistic Kingdoms,” in Bugh 2006a, 28–51.
Alcock, S., et al. (eds.), 2001,
Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
*Algra, K., et al. (eds.), 1999,
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Andronicos, M., 1992,
Vergina: The Royal Tombs
(Athens: Athenon).
Anson, E., 1977, “The Siege of Nora: A Source Conflict,”
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
18, 251–56.
Anson, E., 1985, “Macedonia’s Alleged Constitutionalism,”
Classical Journal
80, 303–16.
Anson, E., 1986, “Diodorus and the Date of Triparadeisus,”
American Journal of Philology
107, 208–17.
Anson, E., 1988, “Antigonus, the Satrap of Phrygia,”
Historia
37, 471–77.
Anson, E., 1990, “Neoptolemus and Armenia,”
Ancient History Bulletin
4, 125–28.
Anson, E., 1991, “The Evolution of the Macedonian Army Assembly (330–315
BC
),”
Historia
40, 230–47.
Anson, E., 1992, “Craterus and the
Prostasia
,”
Classical Philology
87, 38–43.
Anson, E., 2004,
Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek among Macedonians
(Leiden: Brill).
Anson, E., 2006, “The Chronology of the Third Diadoch War,”
Phoenix
60, 226–35.
Anson, E., 2008, “Macedonian Judicial Assemblies,”
Classical Philology
103, 135–49.
Aperghis, G. G., 2004a, “City Building and the Seleukid Royal Economy,” in Z. Archibald et al. (eds.),
Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323–31
BC
(Oxford: Oxbow), 27–43.
*Aperghis, G. G., 2004b,
The Seleukid Royal Economy: The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).