Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great

Author(s)

• Moore, K. R. (Kenneth R.)

Bibliographic Information

Brill's companion to the reception of Alexander the Great

edited by K.R. Moore

（Brill's companions to classical reception, v. 14）

Brill, c2018

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject's significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has cast such a long shadow for so long a time. Every civilisation touched by the Macedonian Conqueror, along with many more that he never imagined, has scrambled to "own" some part of his legacy. This volume canvasses a comprehensive array of these receptions, beginning from Alexander's own era and journeying up to the present, in order to come to grips with the impact left by this influential but elusive figure.

Table of Contents

Editor's foreword K.R. Moore List of Illustrations List of Contributors Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions 1 Framing the Debate K.R. Moore 2 Attic Orators on Alexander the Great Elias Koulakiotis 3 The Reception of Alexander's Father Philip II of Macedon Sabine Muller 4 The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty John Holton 5 Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus' Writings Giuseppe Squillace 6 The Reception of Alexander the Great in Hellenistic Art Olga Palagia 7 Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds Shane Wallace 8 Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History Jacob Nabel 9 Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great James Mullen 10 Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic Kyle Erickson 11 The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD) Federicomaria Muccioli 12 The Latin Alexander: Roman Power, Imperialism, and Alexander the Great Dawn Gilley 13 Alexander the Great in Seneca's Works and in Lucan's Bellum Civile Giulio Celotto 14 Plutarch's Alexander Sulochana Asirvatham Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition 15 Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances Aleksandra Kleczar 16 Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest Meir Ben-Shahar 17 The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Krzysztof Nawotka 18 Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great Juanno Corrine 19 The Church Fathers and Their Reception of Alexander Jaakkojuhani Peltonen 20 Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition Barbara Blythe 21 Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance Krzysztof Nawotka "Modern" and Postmodern Receptions 22 The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj Rachael Mairs 23 Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen Joseph Wiesehoefer 24 "The Unmanly Ruler": Bagoas, Alexander's Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception Elizabeth Baynham and Terry Ryan 25 Alexander's Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War Reinhold Bichler 26 Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great (1956) Alastair Blanshard 27 Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander Margaret Butler 28 The Great Misstep: The Legacy of Alexander the Great & Persepolis Alexander McAuley 29 Avoiding Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander Jason Warren 30 The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander Ada Cohen 31 Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent Guendalina D.M. Taietti 32 "Nobody Can Consider His Condition in Life Superior to Yours": The Reception of the Ancient Disabled and Alexander the Great Alexandra Morris Index

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Details

• NCID: BB26471320
• ISBN:
  • 9789004285071
• LCCN: 2018003540
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 855 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DF234.2
  • DC23 : 938/.07092
  • DC23 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Influence
  • LCSH : Macedonia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
  • LCSH : Macedonia -- History -- To 168 B.C
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB17727398