Alexander the Great in fact and fiction / edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosworth, A. B.

Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Influence--Congresses.

Alexander.

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--In literature--Congresses.

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Myth in literature--Congresses.

Myth in literature.

History.

Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Alexander, III, King of Macedonia.

Greece--Historiography.

Greece--Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C.

Local Subjects:

Alexander, III, King of Macedonia.

Greece--Historiography.

Greece--Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Contents:

A tale of two empires: Hernán Cortés and Alexander the Great / Brian Bosworth

Conspiracies / E. Badian

Alexander the Great and Panhellenism / Michael Flower

Alexander the Great and the kingdom of Asia / Ernst Fredricksmeyer

Hephaestion's pyre and the royal hunt of Alexander / Olga Palagia

Ptolemy and the will of Alexander / Brian Bosworth

A baleful birth in Babylon: the significance of the prodigy in the Liber de morte: an investigation of genre / Elizabeth Baynham

Artifice and Alexander history / Elizabeth Carney

Polybius and Alexander historiography / Richard Billows

Originality and its limits in the Alexander sources of the early empire / John Atkinson.

Notes:

"This book originated in a symposium on Alexander the Great, held at the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia) in July 1997"--P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-352) and index.

ISBN:

0198152876

OCLC:

42810834