Alexander the Great in fact and fiction

著者

書誌事項

Alexander the Great in fact and fiction

edited by A. B. Bosworth and E. J. Baynham

Oxford University Press, 2000

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全13件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

"This book originated in a symposium on Alexander the Great, held at the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia) in July 1997." -- Preface

Includes index

Bibliography: p. [327]-352

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 last days which ends the Alexander romance, and a re-interpretation of the bizarre portents of his death. Three chapters on historiography address the problem of interpreting Alexander's attested behaviour, the indirect source tradition used by Polybius, and the resonances of contemporary politics in the extant histories.

目次

  • Introduction
  • A Tale of Two Empires: Alexander the reat and Hernan Cortes
  • Conspiracies
  • Alexander the Great and Panhellenism
  • Alexander the Great and the Kingdom of Asia
  • Hephaestion's Pyre and Alexander's Royal Hunt
  • Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander
  • A Baleful Birth in Babylon: The Significance of the Prodigy in the Libre de Morte. An Investigation of Genre
  • Artifice and Alexander History
  • Polybius, Alexander the Great and Hieronymous of Cardia
  • Originality and its Limits in the Alexander Sources of the Early Empire

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ