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The historiography of Alexander the Great /

This volume tries to tackle the most serious problem facing modern Alexander the Great studies: that of inadequate sources. Its principal interest is in surviving ancient continuous accounts (Diodorus, Curtius Rufus, Plutarch, Arrian, and Justin), which are at least three hundred years younger than...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nawotka, Krzysztof (Editor ), Rollinger, Robert (Editor ), Wiesehöfer, Josef (Editor ), Wojciechowska, Agnieszka (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
Colección:Classica et orientalia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historiography of Alexander the Great : an introduction / Krzysztof Nawotka, Josef Wiesehöfer and Agnieszka Wojciechowska
  • Alexandre à Troie : images, mythe et realia / Pierre Briant
  • Of philosophers and kings : concerning Philip II of Macedon's alleged "debt" to Plato / Kenneth R. Moore
  • Patron the Phocian : a written "mercenary source"/ Nicolas Sekunda
  • On the traces of Onesicritus. Some historiographical aspects of Alexander's Indian campaign / Reinhold Bichler
  • Alexander and the palace of Memnon / Adam Łukaszewicz
  • Cleomenes of Naucratis in pseudo-Aristotle's Oeconomica and the topoi of the ancient Egyptian propaganda / Ivan Ladynin
  • P.OXY. 4808 and Historians / Robin Lane Fox
  • Agatharchides of Cnidus and the idea of a peripatetic view of Alexander / Gościwit Malinowski
  • In search of the many images of Alexander at Chaeronea. Historical and literary traditions in Plutarch's Corpus / Federicomaria Muccioli
  • The miracles of water and oil in the historiography on Alexander / Sabine Müller
  • The subtle and red line between reality and fiction : Alexander and his 'propaganda machine' / Giuseppe Squillace
  • I Maccabees and the Alexander Romance / Krzysztof Nawotka
  • Alexander and Caligula in the Jerusalem temple : a case of conflated traditions / Ory Amitay
  • The Alexander historians in Byzantium / Corinne Jouanno.