"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.
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.
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