01942nam a2200253Ia 4500 20260820165420.0 191130s2000##################000#0#eng## 9780198152873 pbk eng 928.81 BOS BOS Bosworth A.B. Alexander the great in fact and fiction edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham 1st Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 viii, 370 p. : ill. ; 23 cm 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. Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. - In literature - Congresses Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. - Influence - Congresses Greece - History - Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. - Congresses Myth in literature - Congresses Baynham, Elizabeth Bosworth, A. B REF 240736 240736 0 0 hbk 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2020-10-13 13613.00 0 928.81 BOS 199077 2020-10-13 00:00:00 2020-10-13 REF 0 0 hbk 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2020-10-13 13613.00 0 928.81 BOS 282289 2020-10-13 00:00:00 2020-10-13 REF