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Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Part 1. Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions -- Chapter 1. Framing the Debate (Moore) -- Chapter 2. Attic Orators on Alexander the Great (Koulakiotis) -- Chapter 3. The Reception of Alexander's Fathe...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston
: BRILL
, [2018]
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| Series: | Brill's companions to classical reception
Volume 14 |
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5555028 |
| Author Notes: | edited by K.R. Moore |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Part 1. Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions -- Chapter 1. Framing the Debate (Moore) -- Chapter 2. Attic Orators on Alexander the Great (Koulakiotis) -- Chapter 3. The Reception of Alexander's Father Philip ii of Macedon (Müller) -- Chapter 4. The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty (Holton) -- Chapter 5. Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus' Writings (Squillace) -- Chapter 6. The Reception of Alexander in Hellenistic Art (Palagia) -- Chapter 7. Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (Wallace) -- Chapter 8. Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History (Nabel) -- Chapter 9. Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great (Mullen) -- Chapter 10. Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic (Erickson) -- Chapter 11. The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century bc / beg. 1st Century ad) (Muccioli) -- Chapter 12. The Latin Alexander: Constructing Roman Identity (Gilley) -- Chapter 13. Alexander the Great in Seneca's Works and in Lucan's Bellum Civile (Celotto) -- Chapter 14. Plutarch's Alexander (Asirvatham) -- Part 2. Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition -- Chapter 15. Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances (Klęczar) -- Chapter 16. Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest (Ben Shahar) -- Chapter 17. The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt (Wojciechowska and Nawotka). Chapter 18. Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great (Jouanno) -- Chapter 19. Church Fathers and the Reception of Alexander the Great (Peltonen) -- Chapter 20. Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition (Blythe) -- Chapter 21. Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance (Nawotka) -- Part 3. "Modern" and Postmodern Receptions -- Chapter 22. Alexander and Napoleon (Fulińska) -- Chapter 23. The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj (Mairs) -- Chapter 24. Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen (Wiesehöfer) -- Chapter 25. "The Unmanly Ruler": Bagoas, Alexander's Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception (Baynham and Ryan) -- Chapter 26. Alexander's Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War i to the Cold War (Bichler) -- Chapter 27. Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great (1956) (Blanshard) -- Chapter 28. Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander (Butler) -- Chapter 29. The Great Misstep: Alexander the Great, Thais, and the Destruction of Persepolis (McAuley) -- Chapter 30. Avoiding Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander (Warren) -- Chapter 31. The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander (Cohen) -- Chapter 32. Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent (Taietti) -- Chapter 33. The Conscience of the King: Alexander the Great and the Ancient Disabled (Morris) -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (879 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9789004359932 |
