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1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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Contents |
A tale of two empires : Hernán Cortés and Alexander the Great / Brian Bosworth -- Conspiracies / E. Badian -- Alexander the Great and Panhellenism / Michael Flower -- Alexander the Great and the kingdom of Asia / Ernst Fredricksmeyer -- Hephaestion's pyre and the royal hunt of Alexander / Olga Palagia -- Ptolemy and the will of Alexander / Brian Bosworth -- A baleful birth in Babylon : the significance of the prodigy in the Liber de morte : an investigation of genre / Elizabeth Baynham -- Artifice and Alexander history / Elizabeth Carney -- Polybius and Alexander historiography / Richard Billows -- Originality and its limits in the Alexander sources of the early empire / John Atkinson |
Summary |
"This book comprises ten contributions by leading scholars, and represents the most advanced writing in the field. They display a rich variety of methodologies, combining historical reconstruction and historiographical research. The volume includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east, an analysis of the attested conspiracies at the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and the concept of kingship. There is a radical new interpretation of the hunting fresco from Tomb II at Vergina, a new date for the pamphlet on Alexander's death which ends the Alexander Romance, and a re-interpretation of the bizarre portents of Alexander's death. The book ends with three chapters on historiography: a critical analysis of the rhetorically charged ancient descriptions of Alexander's behaviour, and enrichment of the source tradition of the reign through a study of Polybius, and an exploration of the resonances of contemporary politics in the extant histories from the Roman period."--Jacket |
Notes |
"This book originated in a symposium on Alexander the Great, held at the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia) in July 1997"--Preliminary page |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-352) and index |
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Subject |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Influence -- Congresses
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Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- In literature -- Congresses
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SUBJECT |
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast |
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Alexander (Makedonien, König, III.) swd |
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Myth in literature -- Congresses
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Myth in literature -- Congresses
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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Historiography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature
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Myth in literature
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Kongress
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Rezeption
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Letterkunde.
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Geschiedwetenschap.
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SUBJECT |
Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Congresses
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Greece -- Historiography
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Congresses
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Greece
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Biographies.
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Actes de congrès.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Bosworth, A. B
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Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958-
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LC no. |
99057300 |
ISBN |
9780191541537 |
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0191541532 |
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1423785754 |
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9781423785750 |
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1280444835 |
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9781280444838 |
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9780191715136 |
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0191715131 |
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9786610444830 |
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6610444838 |
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