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Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
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Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction Hardcover - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Albert Brian Bosworth; Albert Brian Bosworth (Editor); Elizabeth Baynham (Editor)


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This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and, viewed as a whole, represent a wide spectrum of methodology. This first English collection of essays on Alexander includes a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians in the east which examines the attitudes towards the subject peoples and the justification of conquest, an analysis of the attested conspiracies at the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and the concept of kingship. There is a radical new interpretation of the hunting fresco from Tomb II at Vergina, and a new date for the pamphlet on Alexander's death which ends the Alexander Romance. Three chapters on historiography address the problem of interpreting Alexander's attested behavior, the indirect source tradition
used by Polybius, and the resonances of contemporary politics in the extant histories.

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  • Title Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
  • Author Albert Brian Bosworth; Albert Brian Bosworth (Editor); Elizabeth Baynham (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, 2000. 380p. Hardback. These original and carefully argued papers add up to a valuable volume Greece & Rome 06/06/2002 (Pu
  • Date 2000-11-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780198152873 / 0198152876
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.8 x 1.01 in (21.64 x 14.73 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Alexander, Greece - History - Macedonian Expansion,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99057300
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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