Faces of power : Alexander's image and Hellenistic politics /
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Language: English
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1993.
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Hellenistic culture and society ;
11.
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Call Number: DF234.5 .S74 1993
Table of Contents:
- I. Approaching Alexander. 1. Texts. 1. Histories. 2. The Portraits: Testimonia. 2. Images. 1. Survivors. 2. Synthesis. 3. Approaches. 3. Alexander: An Encounter. 1. A Meeting in Kilikia. 2. Personal. 3. New Achilles. 4. King Alexander. 5. God Invincible? II. King and Conqueror. 4. Masks of Youth. 1. Youth and Rejuvenation. 2. Attic and Lysippic. 3. Progeny. 4. King and Polis. 5. Charges to Remember. 1. In Memoriam. 2. The Alexander Mosaic: A Reading. 3. Apulian Echoes. 6. Spear-won Land. 1. Unifying Images. 2. Alexander Doryphoros. 3. Chameleon King. 4. Make War, Not Love. 7. On Loan from Olympos. 1. A Revocable Gift. 2. The Heritage of Apelles. 3. Enigma in Malibu. 4. Death and Transfiguration III. Survivors and Successors. 8. Imperial Egypt. 1. A Regional Hegemony? 2. Alexandreion Ptolemaiou. 3. Blessed Patron, Blessed City. 4. Alexandrian Carnival. 5. Alexander's Image and Ptolemaic Policy. 9. Images of Insecurity. 1. "Alexander and Victory" 2. Crusade in Africa. 3. A Soldier's Return. 4. Macedonia and Greece: Kassandros to Gonatas. 10. Asian Figurehead. 1. Two Vassals. 2. The Cities of Asia. 3. Antigonos, Demetrios, Seleukos, and Lysimachos. Epilogue: Resurrections App. 1. Alexander's Personal Appearance App. 2. The Hellenistic and Roman Republican Portraits: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia App. 3. Cults of Alexander App. 4. Preserved Alexander Portraits Discussed in the Text App. 5. The Getty Fragments: A Catalogue App. 6. Hephaistion App. 7. Alexander and the Successors: A Chronology (336-275 B.C.).