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La Ricezione Dell'ultimo Alessandro : Mirabilia e Violenza Al Di Qua e Al Di là Dell'Indo.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Piccioni, Francesca.
Contributor:
Poddighe, Elisabetta.
Pontillo, Tiziana.
Series:
Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series
Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde Series ; v.417
Language:
Italian
Physical Description:
1 online resource (460 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
Summary:
This volume contains 18 papers presented at the International Conference "Mirabilia and violence around the Indus. The last years of Alexander the Great in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit literary reception", held at the University of Cagliari (8-10 March 2023). Divided into three thematic sections (Il mondo classico; L'India e la Cina; Medioevo e Rinascimento), the essays differ in the linguistic varieties of the primary sources analysed, in the chronological range from the first Hellenism to the Renaissance, and in the approach adopted, historical or philological-literary. However, a common thread runs through all the works: the reception of Alexander from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation of the king as a 'philosopher in arms' and an unbridled conqueror. With contributions from several experts in the specific subject and in the various disciplines involved, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach that can stimulate scholars and students in a variety of fields.
Contents:
Intro
Indice
Premessa
Sez. 1: Il mondo classico
Alessandro, Aristotele e l'unità dell'impero: per uno stato dell'arte fra ricezione di Alessandro e critica aristotelica
Terre per un re, piante per un botanico! Alessandro Magno, i paesi delle spezie, le ricerche di Teofrasto
De l'Indus au Nil, Alexandre et la mousson (Arr. Anab. 6.1 et Strab. 15.1)
«Μᾶλλον λεγομένην ἢ φαινομένην ὁμοιότητα» (Plut. Pomp. 2.2): Pompeo e Alessandro nella prospettiva di Plutarco
These Men Are on Fire. Metafore e potere nelle Vite di Alessandro e di Cesare di Plutarco
Alessandro 'bipolare': il filosofo e il conquistatore nelle fonti della Seconda Sofistica
Il mirabile nel De mundo di Apuleio: una teoria filosofica della meraviglia tra Platone, Aristotele e Alessandro
Alessandro 'omerico' nel Romanzo di Alessandro
I mirabilia Indiae nel Commonitorium Palladii
Sez. 2: L'India e la Cina
Alexander's Impact on Indian Religions
What Was the πάτριος νόμος of the Sophists with Whom Onesicritus Conversed (Strab. 15.1.64): Some Fresh Data from Vedic Sources
The Seleucid Influence on the Gandhāran Administrative System. A Study on the Greek-Derived Political Offices with Special Reference to the Indo-Scythian Kingdom of Apraca
Alexander the Great: Homo Mirabilis within Chinese and Mongolian Sources. The Transmission of Legendary Narratives from West to East
Sez. 3: Medioevo e Rinascimento
L'interpretazione cristiana della figura di Alessandro e l'Apocalisse dello Pseudo-Metodio
The Wonders of Historiography: The Medieval Latin Alexander Narratives and Manuscript Contexts of Justin, Orosius, and the Historia de Preliis
Enquête sur la réception de la 'légende noire' d'Alexandre dans la littérature byzantine
L'acqua immortale e la Bella dei Monti: folklore, mirabilia e ironia in un episodio del Romanzo di Alessandro.
La presenza delle fonti greche su Alessandro nel dibattito umanistico durante la prima metà del Quattrocento
Indici
Introduction
Indice dei passi citati
Indice dei nomi antichi
Indice dei nomi moderni
Indice dei toponimi e degli etnonimi.
Notes:
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
3-11-142761-7
OCLC:
1452591427

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