Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great

Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great / edited by K.R. Moore.

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 othe...

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Other Authors: Moore, K. R. (Kenneth R.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; volume 14
Subjects:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Influence.
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
To 168 B.C.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Kings and rulers
Macedonia > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Macedonia > History > To 168 B.C.
Europe > Macedonia
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Holton
  • Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian propaganda and historical memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus' writings / 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 / 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
  • 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 / Corrine 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
  • Alexander and Napoleon / Agnieszka Fulińska
  • The men who would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and his Graeco-Bactrian successors in the Raj / Rachael Mairs
  • Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen / Joseph 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 / Alexander McAuley
  • Avoiding nation building in Afghanistan: an absent insight from Alexander / Jason Warren
  • The artist of 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.

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