- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "Alexander III (the Great) was born in the Macedonian city of Pella in the north of the Greek peninsula in 356 BCE. Following the assassination of his father Philip II of Macedon in 336, he took up the cause of an attack on the Persian Empire, which his father was planning, and in spring 334 crossed the Hellespont into Persian territory with an army of at least 30,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry"--
- Uniform Title
- History of Alexander the Great in world culture (Online)
- Alternative Title
- History of Alexander the Great in world culture (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Greek and Roman Formations, and new prospects / Richard Stoneman -- Alexander and Alexandria in Life and Legend / Dorothy Thompson -- The image of Alexander in ancient Art. Olga / Palagia -- Alexander, Philosophy and Rome: A Trajanic Moment / Sulochana Asirvatham -- Christianizing Alexander Traditions in Late Antiquity / Christian Djurslev -- Alexander in Ancient Jewish Literature / Ory Amitay -- The Medieval Alexander: Art and Politics / Maud Perez-Simon -- Alexander the Great and the Crusades / Mark Cruse -- The Slavic Alexander / Susana Torres Prieto -- Alexander the Great in Byzantine Tradition, 330-1453 AD / Anthony Kaldellis -- The Spanish Alexander: A Figure of Praise and Blame / Rich Rabone -- The Persian Alexander (1): The Royal Alexander / Haila Manteghi -- The Persian Alexander (2): Amir Khusraw and the Philosophical View of Alexander / Richard Stoneman -- Alexander in Medieval Arab Minds / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Alexander in the Age of Shakespeare: the plays of Sir William Alexander / Richard Stoneman -- Alexander the Great in Opera / Jon Solomon -- Alexander in the Long Eighteenth Century (ca. 1660-1830) / Pierre Briant -- Images of Alexander in Germany: Hero, Explorer of New Spaces, Cosmopolitanist and Champion of the West / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Alexander the Gay and the Gloryhole that was Greece / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Shaun Tougher.
- LCCN
- 2021034424
- OCLC
- ssj0002550404
- Author
Stoneman, Richard.
- Title
A history of Alexander the Great in world culture [electronic resource] / edited by Richard Stoneman, University of Exeter.
- Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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