Alexander the Great and the East : history, art, tradition /

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Main Author: Nawotka, Krzysztof (Author)

Other Authors: Wojciechowska, Agnieszka.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016.

Series: Philippika ; 103.

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Call Number: DS41 .P28 2016 v103

Table of Contents:
  • Alexander the Great and the east : history, art, tradition : an introduction / Krzysztof Nawotka and Agnieszka Wojciechowska
  • An Egyptian prince at Alexander's court at Asia? : a new interpretation for the evidence of the statuette of the son of Nectanebo II / Ivan A. Ladynin
  • Nectanebo II and Alexander the great / Krzysztof Nawotka and Agnieszka Wojciechowska
  • Alexander and the Island of Pharos / Adam Łukaszewicz
  • Hunters on horseback : new version of the Macedonian iconography in Ptolemaic Egypt / Giulia Cesarin
  • Athens, Alexander and the family of Memnon of Rhodes : some notes on a new interpretation of so-called "Memnon's decree"
  • The methods of divination used in the campaigns of the Assyrian kings and Alexander the Great / Krzysztof Ulanowski
  • Belephantes to Alexander : an astrological report to a Macedonian king? / Micah T. Ross
  • Alexander and Babylon : a substitute king? / Robin Lane Fox
  • Which way north? " retracing Alexander's route to Marakanda in the Spring of 328 B.C.E. / Jeffrey Lerner
  • The massacre of the Branchidae : a reassessment. The post-mortem case in defence of the Branchidae / Olga Kubica
  • Alexander the Great and China / Gościwit Malinowski
  • Alexander the Great as a Herodotean Persian king / Guendalina D. M. Taietti
  • Poseidippos, Ptolemy and Alexander / Sabine Müller
  • "The East in Curtius Rufus; historiae Alexandri Magni : a paradoxical reversion of standards" / Igor Yakubovitch
  • The figure of Alexander the Great and Nonnus' Dionysiaca / Christian Thrue Djurslev
  • The great, son of the Great : Alexander - son of Darius? / Agnieszka Fulińska
  • The king and his personal historian : the relationship between Alexander of Macedon and Callisthenes in Bactria and Sogdiana / Dan-Tudor Ionescu
  • Another note on deification of Alexander in Athens / Przemyslaw Siekierka
  • On his majesty's secret service : actors at the court of Alexander the Great / Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma
  • The metamorphoses of pseudo-callisthenes' motifs concerning India in the Persian Alexander romances / Aleksandra Szalc
  • An early mirror for princes and manual for secretaries : the epistolary novel of Aristotle and Alexander / Emily Cottrell
  • Alexander's mirror / Richard Stoneman
  • Wise and the wiser : the narratives on Alexander's wisdom defeated in two versions of Hebrew Alexander romance (MS London Jews' College no 145 and MS Héb. 671.5 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale) / Aleksandra Klęczar
  • Alexander's "policy of fusion" and German ancient history between 1933 and 1945 / Josef Wiesehöfer.