Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction

Zusatztext For those whose interest in Alexander has been stirred, as well as for students of the period, this collection must become compulsory reading. Klappentext This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and, viewed as a whole, represent a widespectrum of methodology. This first English collection of essays on Alexander includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east which examines the attitudes towards the subject peoples and the justification of conquest, an analysis of the attested conspiraciesat the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and the concept of kingship. There is a radical new interpretation of the hunting fresco from Tomb II at Vergina, and a new date for the pamphlet on Alexander's death which ends the Alexander Romance. Three chapters onhistoriography address the problem of interpreting Alexander's attested behavior, the indirect source tradition used by Polybius, and the resonances of contemporary politics in the extant histories. Zusammenfassung This volume collects ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent an advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and viewed as a whole represent a wide spectrum of methodology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Tale of Two Empires: Alexander the reat and Hernán Cortés Conspiracies Alexander the Great and Panhellenism Alexander the Great and the Kingdom of Asia Hephaestion's Pyre and Alexander's Royal Hunt Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander A Baleful Birth in Babylon: The Significance of the Prodigy in the Libre de Morte. An Investigation of Genre Artifice and Alexander History Polybius, Alexander the Great and Hieronymous of Cardia Originality and its Limits in the Alexander Sources of the Early Empire ...

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• Authors: A. B. ( Bosworth, A. B. (Professor of Classics and Ancient Bosworth, A. B. Baynham Bosworth, A.b. Baynham Bosworth, Albert Brian Bosworth
• Assisted by: E J Baynham (Editor), E. J. Baynham (Editor), Elizabeth Baynham (Editor), A B Bosworth (Editor), A. B. Bosworth (Editor), Albert Brian Bosworth (Editor), Bosworth A. B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198152873
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815287-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Ancient World, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Biography: historical, political and military, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory