Alexander the Great and propaganda / edited by John Walsh and Elizabeth Baynham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walsh, John (Professor of Classics), editor.

Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Alexander.

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

Propaganda, Greek.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Politics and government.

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

History.

Greece--History--Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 205 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

"Selling Alexander" : the concept and use of 'propaganda' in the age of Alexander / Elizabeth Baynham

Alexander the Great : a life lived as legend / Edward M. Anson

Ptolemaic propaganda in Alexander's visit to Ammon / Frances Pownall

The 'pursuit' of kings : Imitatio Alexandri in Arrian's Darius and Bessos 'chase scenes' / Tim Howe

The bias of Hieronymus : a source critical analysis of Diodorus 18.8-18 / John Walsh

At the court of Antigonus Gonatas, the heir of two dynasties / Franca Landucci

Alexander at Naqš-i Rustam? Persia and the Macedonians / Sabine Müller

The man who would be king : Alexander between Gaugamela and Persepolis / Hugh Bowden

Desertions and the rise and fall of rulers in Hellenistic Macedonia / Joseph Roisman

Coinage as propaganda : Alexander and his successors / Pat Wheatley & Charlotte Dunn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 26, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Alexander the Great and propaganda

ISBN:

1315114402

9781315114408

Publisher Number:

99989244786

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.