Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-28507-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1379 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject’s significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has cast such a long shadow for so long a time. Every civilisation touched by the Macedonian Conqueror, along with many more that he never imagined, has scrambled to “own” some part of his legacy. This volume canvasses a comprehensive array of these receptions, beginning from Alexander’s own era and journeying up to the present, in order to come to grips with the impact left by this influential but elusive figure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moore, Kenneth Royce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s foreword
K.R. Moore
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions

1 Framing the Debate
K.R. Moore

2 Attic Orators on Alexander the Great
Elias Koulakiotis

3 The Reception of Alexander’s Father Philip II of Macedon
Sabine Müller

4 The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty
John Holton

5 Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus’ Writings
Giuseppe Squillace

6 The Reception of Alexander the Great in Hellenistic Art
Olga Palagia

7 Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Shane Wallace

8 Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History
Jacob Nabel

9 Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great
James Mullen

10 Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic
Kyle Erickson

11 The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD)
Federicomaria Muccioli

12 The Latin Alexander: Roman Power, Imperialism, and Alexander the Great
Dawn Gilley

13 Alexander the Great in Seneca’s Works and in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Giulio Celotto

14 Plutarch’s Alexander
Sulochana Asirvatham

Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition

15 Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances
Aleksandra Kleczar

16 Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest
Meir Ben-Shahar

17 The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt
Agnieszka Wojciechowska and Krzysztof Nawotka

18 Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great
Juanno Corrine

19 The Church Fathers and Their Reception of Alexander
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

20 Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition
Barbara Blythe

21 Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance
Krzysztof Nawotka

“Modern” and Postmodern Receptions

22 The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj
Rachael Mairs

23 Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen
Joseph Wiesehöfer

24 “The Unmanly Ruler”: Bagoas, Alexander’s Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception
Elizabeth Baynham and Terry Ryan

25 Alexander’s Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War
Reinhold Bichler

26 Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956)
Alastair Blanshard

27 Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander
Margaret Butler

28 The Great Misstep: The Legacy of Alexander the Great & Persepolis
Alexander McAuley

29 Avoiding Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander
Jason Warren

30 The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander
Ada Cohen

31 Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent
Guendalina D.M. Taietti

32 “Nobody Can Consider His Condition in Life Superior to Yours”: The Reception of the Ancient Disabled and Alexander the Great
Alexandra Morris

Index

Über Autor(innen)

K. R. Moore, PhD (2003), University of St. Andrews, is Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas at Teesside University. He has published monographs and journal articles on Ancient Greek History, including Sex and the Second-Best City (Routledge, 2005).

Contributors are: Sulochana Asirvatham, Elizabeth Baynham, Meir Ben Shahar, Reinhold Bichler, Alastair Blanshard, Barbara Blythe, Margaret Butler, Ada Cohen, Giulio Celotto, Corinne Jouanno, Kyle Erickson, Agnieszka Fulinska, Dawn Gilley, John Holton, Corinne Jouanno, Aleksandra Kleczar, Elias Koulakiotis, Alexander McAuley, Rachel Mairs, K. R. Moore, Alexandra Morris, Federicomaria Muccioli, James Mullen, Sabine Müller, Jacob Nabel, Krzysztof Nawotka, Olga Palagia, Jaakkojuhani Peltonen, Terry Ryan, Giuseppe Squillace, Guendalina D.M. Taietti, Shane Wallace, Jason Warren, Joseph Wiesehöfer, Agnieszka Wojciechowska.