Title Alexander the Great in fact and fiction / edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books 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 Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Influence -- Congresses Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- In literature -- Congresses SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast Alexander (Makedonien, König, III.) swd Subject Myth in literature -- Congresses Myth in literature -- Congresses BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Ancient. Historiography Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature Myth in literature Kongress Geschichtsschreibung Rezeption Letterkunde. Geschiedwetenschap. SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Congresses Greece -- Historiography Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Congresses Subject Greece Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Biographies. Actes de congrès. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Bosworth, A. B Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958- LC no. 99057300 ISBN 9780191541537 0191541532 1423785754 9781423785750 1280444835 9781280444838 9780191715136 0191715131 9786610444830 6610444838

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