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Title

The world of Alexander in perspective : contextualizing Arrian / edited by Robert Rollinger and Julian Degen.

Publication

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.

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Additional Authors

• Rollinger, Robert
• Degen, Julian

Description

viii, 409 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, Austria. They focus on Arrian of Nicomedia?s 'Anabasis Alexandrou' which is our main source for the life and reign of Alexander the Great. So far, scholarship has paid only little attention to the 'Anabasis' as literary cosmos of its own right. The various contributions critically evaluate the still extant general opinion, that Arrian deserves a distinguished status as the main source on the Macedonian conqueror since he allegedly closely followed his sources. But the first accounts of the participants in Alexander?s famous expedition have only survived as fragments and thus their literary production is more or less shrouded in mystery. Hence, the tension between Arrian?s literary creativity, propinquity to his sources, his relationship to his role-model Xenophon merits serious examination when assessing the value of his work as a historical source. 0The volume is the first attempt to contextualize the work of Arrian against various backdrops. This includes the reign of Alexander, the Classical and contemporary literary trends, the Second Sophistic as intellectual framework, the until yet neglected idea of "empire" as well as echoes and stimuli from the Achaemenid and Hellenistic period. The various contributions create a more complex image of Arrian as an author, his literary production and his idea of the Macedonian conqueror that helps us to gain a better understanding of this complex text and Alexander the Great as its protagonist.

Series Statement

Classica et orientalia, 2190-3638 ; Band 30

Uniform Title

Classica et orientalia ; Bd. 30.

Subject

• Arrian > History and criticism
• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C
• Arrian
• Historiography
• Greece > Historiography
• Greece

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Informational works.
• Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-1242

ISBN

• 9783447119085
• 344711908X

LCCN

9783447119085

OCLC

1354300654

Title

The world of Alexander in perspective : contextualizing Arrian / edited by Robert Rollinger and Julian Degen.

Publisher

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classica et orientalia, 2190-3638 ; Band 30

Classica et orientalia ; Bd. 30.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rollinger, Robert, editor.

Degen, Julian, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9783447119085

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1242