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Author:

Classical Association of South Africa. Biennial Conference (29th : 2011 : Grahamstown, South Africa), author.

Title:

Alexander in Africa / edited by Philip Bosman.

Publisher:

Classical Association of South Africa,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 184 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Alexander,--the Great,--356 B.C.-323 B.C.--Influence--Congresses.
Africa--Discovery and exploration--Congresses.
Alexander--III.--Makedonien, König--v356-v323
Afrika

Other Authors:

Bosman, Philip, editor.

Notes:

"The Alexander papers formed a running panel at the biennial Classical Association of South Africa Conference, which was hosted by Rhodes University that year [2011]." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Alexander and Africa (332-331 BC and beyond) : the facts, the traditions and the problems / Daniel Ogden -- Alexander in Egypt : considering the Egyptian evidence / Hugh Bowden -- Callisthenes in Africa : the historian's role at Siwah and in the Proskynesis controversy / Frances Pownall -- Founding Alexandria : Alexander the Great and the politics of memory / Timothy Howe -- Demetrius the Besieger on the Nile / Pat Wheatley -- The Alexander romance tradition from Egypt to Ethiopia / Sulochana Asirvatham -- The fate of African material in the Greek and Byzantine tradition of the Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno -- From Jerusalem to Timbuktu : the appropriation of Alexander the Great by national narratives / Adrian Tronson -- Alexander and the unity of mankind : some Cape Town perspectives / John Atkinson.

Series:

Acta classica. Supplementum, 0065-1141 ; V

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904450122

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)