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9789979545132

Alexander's Revenge : Hellenistic Culture Through the Centuries

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    9789979545132

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    9979545135

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-12-01
  • Publisher: David Brown Book Co
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Summary

Twelve prominent scholars in the field of biblical studies, medieval studies, and history write on various aspects of Western civilization following the death of Alexander the Great to the Early Modern Age. Ranging in field from education, art, music, literature, biblical studies, philosophy - to demography, this collection of essays offers an interdisciplinary focus in the field of cross-cultural studies demonstrating how the world of Alexander is still shaping the present world situation.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(10)
Jon Ma. Asgeirsson
The Chreia in Primary and Secondary Education
11(26)
Ronald F. Hock
The Chria as Principle and Source for Literary Composition
37(22)
Jon Ma. Asgeirsson
Rhetoric and the Composition of the Letters of Paul
59(26)
James D. Hester
From Prince to Demi-God: The Formation and Evolution of Alexander's Portrait
85(26)
Ernst F. Tonsing
Serpents and Heretics: The impact of Hellenistic Poetry on a Fourth-Century Church Father
111(12)
Richard A. Zionts
Aristotle's Advice to Alexander and the Issue of Rulership (The Physics Exemplified in the Thirteenth Century)
123(18)
Nancy van Deusen
The Enduring Hellenistic Gift: The Innvisible and Indivisible Atom
141(12)
James Otte
A Medieval Cosmopolis: Constantinople and Its Foreign Inhabitants
153(20)
Claudia Rapp
Venice, Byzantium and the Balkan Peoples in the Late Middle Ages
173(8)
Barisa Krekic
Tales of Ships and Seas: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Imagination
181(28)
Christopher Kleinhenz
Islam in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
209(24)
Brenda Deen Schildgen
International Elements in the Codex Calixtinus: Mappa Mundi and the Alleluia Group
233(8)
Vincent Corrigan
Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors 241

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