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Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman sources : from history to historiography /
Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection, by an international team of scholars, cast a wider net. They show how classical Greek, hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted, sometimes misinterpr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea, Wales :
The Classical Press of Wales,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A founding mother? Eurydike I, Philip II and Macedonian royal mythology / Timothy Howe, St. Olaf College
- Royal women as succession advocates / Elizabeth Carney, Clemson University
- A Roman Olympias: powerful women in the Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus / Rebecca Frank, University of Virginia
- Was Kallisthenes the tutor of Alexander's royal pages? / Frances Pownall, University of Alberta
- Hephaistion: a reassessment of his career / Sabine Müller, Philipps University Marburg
- Friendship and betrayal: the alliances among the Diadochoi / Alexander Meeus, University of Mannheim
- The animal types on the Argead coinage, wilderness and Macedonia / Victor Alonso Troncoso, University of La Coruña
- Alexander as Achilles: Arrian's use of Homer from Troy to the Granikos / Hugh Bowden, King's College London
- The grand procession, Galaterschlacht, and Ptolemaic kingship / Paul Johstono, The Citadel
- Legends of Seleukos' death, from omens to revenge / Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter and UNISA
- The memory of Alexander in Plutarch's lives of Demetrios, Pyrrhos, and Eumenes / Sulochana Asirvatham, Montclair State University.