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OverviewBrill’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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kenneth Royce MoorePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 14 Weight: 1.502kg ISBN: 9789004285071ISBN 10: 9004285075 Pages: 856 Publication Date: 01 June 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsEditor’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 Müller 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 Klęczar 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 Wiesehöfer 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 IndexReviewsThe present volume will no doubt help researchers and students in search of new horizons for Alexander's 'superlative legacy' (...) it certainly succeeds in conveying the richness of Alexander's receptions in world history. (...) Wallace's result prompts future scholarship to move beyond the basic paradigm of positive and negative receptions, because we now know that much more was at stake in terms of self-presentation whenever people appropriated Alexander. (...) Students and researchers will find points of interest in individual papers, especially Bichler's chapter on past scholarship, so the volume will be useful for teaching purposes. Christian Thrue Djurslev, BMCR 2019.04.19 The volume is (...) aimed at a wide audience, consisting of anyone who is interested in Alexander the Great and his later reception (spanning Ancient, Medieval, Early-Modern and (post)Modern History), including university students, academic scholars but perhaps also casual readers. (...) The chapters are mostly inviting, well documented (good bibliographies concluding all chapters), and often challenge our own views. (...) this volume constitutes a worthwhile addition to the still expanding Alexander-bibliography. The index concluding the volume, moreover, adds to its practicality. Jan P. Stronk, CJ-Online 2019.09.07 Author InformationK. R. Moore, PhD (2003), University of St. Andrews, is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Teesside University. He has published monographs and journal articles on Ancient Greek History, including Sex and the Second-Best City (Routledge, 2005). Contributors are: Sulochana Asirvatham, Elizabeth Baynham, Meir Ben Shahar, Reinhold Bichler, Alastair Blanshard, Barbara Blythe, Margaret Butler, Ada Cohen, Giulio Celotto, Corinne Jouanno, Kyle Erickson, Agnieszka Fulińska, Dawn Gilley, John Holton, Corinne Jouanno, Aleksandra Klęczar, Elias Koulakiotis, Alexander McAuley, Rachel Mairs, K. R. Moore, Alexandra Morris, Federicomaria Muccioli, James Mullen, Sabine Müller, Jacob Nabel, Krzysztof Nawotka, Olga Palagia, Jaakkojuhani Peltonen, Terry Ryan, Giuseppe Squillace, Guendalina D.M. Taietti, Shane Wallace, Jason Warren, Joseph Wiesehöfer, Agnieszka Wojciechowska. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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