Research Catalog

Title

Alexander's revenge : Hellenistic culture through the centuries / edited by Jon Ma. Asgeirsson and Nancy Van Deusen.

Publication

Reykjavik : University of Iceland Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jón Ma. Ásgeirsson
• Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth)
• Rapp, Claudia.

Description

xi, 245 p. : music; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Hellenistic culture through the centuries

Subject

• Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Influence
• Hellenism > Influence
• Hellenism > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The chreia in primary and secondary education / Ronald F. Hock -- The chria as principle and source for literary composition / Jon Ma. Asgeirsson -- Rhetoric and the composition of the letters of Paul / James D. Hester -- From prince to demi-god : the formation and evolution of Alexander's portrait /32044130685936 Ernst F. Tonsing -- Serpents and heretics : the impact of Hellenistic poetry on a fourth-century church father / Richard A. Zionts -- Aristotle's advice to Alexander and the issue of rulership (the Physics exemplified in the thirteenth century) / Nancy van Deusen -- The enduring Hellenistic gift : the innvisible [sic] and indivisible atom / James Otté -- A medieval cosmopolis : Constantinople and its foreign inhabitants / Claudia Rapp -- Venice, Byzantium and the Balkan peoples in the late Middle Ages / Bariša Krekić -- Tales of ships and seas : the Mediterranean in the Medieval imagination / Christopher Kleinhenz -- Islam in Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury tales / Brenda Deen Schildgen -- International elements in the Codex calixtinus : Mappa mundi and the Alleluia group / Vincent Corrigan.

ISBN

• 9979545135
• 9789979545132

LCCN

^^2007462931

OCLC

• 52261433
• SCSB-12275649

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library