Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject's significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other hist...
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Language: English
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Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2018.
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Brill's Companions to Classical Reception
14.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.
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Call Number: DF234.2
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions
- Framing the Debate /
- K.R. Moore
- Attic Orators on Alexander the Great /
- Elias Koulakiotis
- The Reception of Alexander's Father Philip II of Macedon /
- Sabine Müller
- The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty /
- John Holton
- Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus' Writings /
- Giuseppe Squillace
- The Reception of Alexander in Hellenistic Art /
- Olga Palagia
- Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds /
- Shane Wallace
- Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History /
- Jake Nabel
- Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great /
- James Mullen
- Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic /
- Kyle Erickson
- The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD) /
- Federicomaria Muccioli
- The Latin Alexander: Constructing Roman Identity /
- Dawn L. Gilley
- Alexander the Great in Seneca's Works and in Lucan's Bellum Civile /
- Giulio Celotto
- Plutarch's Alexander /
- Sulochana R. Asirvatham
- Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition
- Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances /
- Aleksandra Klęczar
- Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest /
- Meir Ben Shahar
- The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt /
- Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Krzysztof Nawotka
- Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great /
- Corinne Jouanno
- Church Fathers and the Reception of Alexander the Great /
- Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
- Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition /
- Barbara Blythe
- Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance /
- Krzysztof Nawotka
- "Modern" and Postmodern Receptions
- Alexander and Napoleon /
- Agnieszka Fulińska
- The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj /
- Rachel Mairs
- Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen /
- Josef Wiesehöfer
- "The Unmanly Ruler": Bagoas, Alexander's Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception /
- Elizabeth Baynham and Terry Ryan
- Alexander's Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War /
- Reinhold Bichler
- Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great (1956) /
- Alastair J.L. Blanshard
- Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander /
- Margaret E. Butler
- The Great Misstep: Alexander the Great, Thais, and the Destruction of Persepolis /
- Alex McAuley
- Avoiding Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander /
- Jason W. Warren
- The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander /
- Ada Cohen
- Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent /
- Guendalina D.M. Taietti
- The Conscience of the King: Alexander the Great and the Ancient Disabled /
- Alexandra F. Morris.