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9780198152873

Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198152873

  • ISBN10:

    0198152876

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-11-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and, viewed as a whole, represent a wide spectrum of methodology. This first English collection of essays on Alexander includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east which examines the attitudes towards the subject peoples and the justification of conquest, 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, and a new date for the pamphlet on Alexander's death which ends the Alexander Romance. Three chapters on historiography address the problem of interpreting Alexander's attested behavior, the indirect source tradition used by Polybius, and the resonances of contemporary politics in the extant histories.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Introduction
1(22)
Brian Bosworth
A Tale of Two Empires: Hernan Cortes and alexander the Great
23(27)
Brian Bosworth
Conspiracies
50(46)
E. Badian
Alexander the Great and Panhellenism
96(40)
Michael Flower
Alexander the Great and the Kingdom of Asia
136(31)
Ernst Fredricksmeyer
Hephaestion's Pyre and the Royal Hunt of Alexander
167(40)
Olga Palagia
Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander
207(35)
Brian Bosworth
A Baleful Birth in Babylon: The Significance of the Prodigy in the Liber de Morte---An Investigation of Genre
242(21)
Elizabeth Baynham
Artifice and Alexander History
263(23)
Elizabeth Carney
Polybius and Alexander Historiography
286(21)
Richard Billows
Originality and its Limits in the Alexander Sources of the Early Empire
307(20)
John Atkinson
Bibliography 327(26)
Index 353

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