Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great |
Autore | Moore Kenneth Royce <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (879 pages) |
Disciplina | 938.07092 |
Collana | Brill's companions to classical studies |
Soggetto topico | Kings and rulers |
ISBN | 90-04-35993-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions -- Framing the Debate / K.R. Moore -- Attic Orators on Alexander the Great / Elias Koulakiotis -- The Reception of Alexander’s Father Philip II of Macedon / Sabine Müller -- The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty / John Holton -- Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus’ Writings / Giuseppe Squillace -- The Reception of Alexander in Hellenistic Art / Olga Palagia -- Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds / Shane Wallace -- Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History / Jake Nabel -- Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great / James Mullen -- Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic / Kyle Erickson -- The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD) / Federicomaria Muccioli -- The Latin Alexander: Constructing Roman Identity / Dawn L. Gilley -- Alexander the Great in Seneca’s Works and in Lucan’s Bellum Civile / Giulio Celotto -- Plutarch’s Alexander / Sulochana R. Asirvatham -- Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition -- Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances / Aleksandra Klęczar -- Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest / Meir Ben Shahar -- The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt / Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Krzysztof Nawotka -- Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great / Corinne Jouanno -- Church Fathers and the Reception of Alexander the Great / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen -- Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition / Barbara Blythe -- Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance / Krzysztof Nawotka -- “Modern” and Postmodern Receptions -- Alexander and Napoleon / Agnieszka Fulińska -- The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj / Rachel Mairs -- Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen / Josef Wiesehöfer -- “The Unmanly Ruler”: Bagoas, Alexander’s Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception / Elizabeth Baynham and Terry Ryan -- Alexander’s Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War / Reinhold Bichler -- Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956) / Alastair J.L. Blanshard -- Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander / Margaret E. Butler -- The Great Misstep: Alexander the Great, Thais, and the Destruction of Persepolis / Alex McAuley -- Avoiding Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander / Jason W. Warren -- The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander / Ada Cohen -- Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent / Guendalina D.M. Taietti -- The Conscience of the King: Alexander the Great and the Ancient Disabled / Alexandra F. Morris. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793166403321 |
Moore Kenneth Royce <1972->
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Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great |
Autore | Moore Kenneth Royce <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (879 pages) |
Disciplina | 938.07092 |
Collana | Brill's companions to classical studies |
Soggetto topico | Kings and rulers |
ISBN | 90-04-35993-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions -- Framing the Debate / K.R. Moore -- Attic Orators on Alexander the Great / Elias Koulakiotis -- The Reception of Alexander’s Father Philip II of Macedon / Sabine Müller -- The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty / John Holton -- Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus’ Writings / Giuseppe Squillace -- The Reception of Alexander in Hellenistic Art / Olga Palagia -- Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds / Shane Wallace -- Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History / Jake Nabel -- Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great / James Mullen -- Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic / Kyle Erickson -- The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD) / Federicomaria Muccioli -- The Latin Alexander: Constructing Roman Identity / Dawn L. Gilley -- Alexander the Great in Seneca’s Works and in Lucan’s Bellum Civile / Giulio Celotto -- Plutarch’s Alexander / Sulochana R. Asirvatham -- Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition -- Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances / Aleksandra Klęczar -- Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest / Meir Ben Shahar -- The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt / Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Krzysztof Nawotka -- Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great / Corinne Jouanno -- Church Fathers and the Reception of Alexander the Great / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen -- Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition / Barbara Blythe -- Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance / Krzysztof Nawotka -- “Modern” and Postmodern Receptions -- Alexander and Napoleon / Agnieszka Fulińska -- The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj / Rachel Mairs -- Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen / Josef Wiesehöfer -- “The Unmanly Ruler”: Bagoas, Alexander’s Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception / Elizabeth Baynham and Terry Ryan -- Alexander’s Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War / Reinhold Bichler -- Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956) / Alastair J.L. Blanshard -- Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander / Margaret E. Butler -- The Great Misstep: Alexander the Great, Thais, and the Destruction of Persepolis / Alex McAuley -- Avoiding Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander / Jason W. Warren -- The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander / Ada Cohen -- Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent / Guendalina D.M. Taietti -- The Conscience of the King: Alexander the Great and the Ancient Disabled / Alexandra F. Morris. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822718103321 |
Moore Kenneth Royce <1972->
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Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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