A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture

Herausgeber: Stoneman, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

"Alexander III (the Great) was born in the Macedonian city of Pella in the north of the Greek peninsula in 356 BCE. Following the assassination of his father Philip II of Macedon in 336, he took up the cause of an attack on the Persian Empire, which his father was planning, and in spring 334 crossed the Hellespont into Persian territory with an army of at least 30,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781107167698
• ISBN-10: 1107167698
• Artikelnr.: 62950982

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Greek and Roman formations, and new prospects Richard
Stoneman; 2. Alexander and Alexandria in life and legend Dorothy Thompson;
3. The image of Alexander in ancient art Olga Palagia; 4. Alexander,
Philosophy and Rome: A Trajanic moment Sulochana Asirvatham; 5.
Christianizing Alexander traditions in late antiquity Christian Djurslev;
6. Alexander in ancient Jewish literature Ory Amitay; 7. The medieval
Alexander: Art and politics Maud Perez-Simon; 8. Alexander the great and
the crusades Mark Cruse; 9. The slavic Alexander Susana Torres Prieto; 10.
Alexander the great in byzantine tradition, 330-1453 AD Anthony Kaldellis;
11. The Spanish Alexander: A figure of praise and blame Rich Rabone; 12.
The Persian Alexander (1): The Royal Alexander Haila Manteghi; 13. The
Persian Alexander (2): Amir Khusraw and the philosophical view of Alexander
Richard Stoneman; 14. Alexander in medieval arab minds Faustina
Doufikar-Aerts; 15. Alexander in the age of Shakespeare: the plays of Sir
William Alexander Richard Stoneman; 16. Alexander the great in Opera Jon
Solomon; 17. Alexander in the long eighteenth century (ca. 1660-1830)
Pierre Briant; 18. Images of Alexander in Germany: Hero, Explorer of new
spaces, Cosmopolitanist and Champion of the west Josef Wiesehöfer; 19.
Alexander the Gay and the Gloryhole that was Greece Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
and Shaun Tougher.