The Intersectional Alexander the Great : Receptions and Representations in Greece and the Wider Hellenistic Continuum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Kenneth Royce.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Provides interpretive analyses of intersectional matters such as race, sex, gender, disability and ethnicity using non-elite historical sources in relation to receptions of Alexander from the ancient to the modern period.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Parasocial Relationships in Elite and Non-Elite Receptions of the Macedonian Conqueror: Alexander the Great as Speculum Mundi

2 The Mythmaking of Alexander: Narratives of Ecological Entanglement

3 Calanus Is 'Alexander too': The Retelling of Alexander's Indian Campaign in Kostas Arkoudeas' Historical Romance

4 Candace in the Malay Alexander Romance

5 Alexander's Persian Boy: Constructions of Bagoas and Alexander

6 Gender, Class and Race: Reading Women's Experiences of Alexander's Campaigns

7 Sexuality and Class in the Reign of Alexander

8 Class Struggle in Babylon: Social Conflict and Regime Control on the Death of Alexander

9 Mirror, Mirror: Alexander the Great, Disability and Depictions of Graeco-Egyptian Deities as Macedonian Soldiers

10 Disability in the Times of Alexander III: Views and Perceptions

11 The Impact of Religious Beliefs on the Exercise of Power by Alexander and His Family

12 Age and Ageing in Alexander the Great's Reception

Bibliography

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Moore, Kenneth Royce The Intersectional Alexander the Great

ISBN:

9781350468313

OCLC:

1605655244