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Title:

Alexander the Great in fact and fiction / edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

viii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Alexander,--the Great,--356 B.C.-323 B.C.--Influence--Congresses.
Alexander,--the Great,--356 B.C.-323 B.C.--In literature--Congresses.
Myth in literature--Congresses.
Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Bosworth, A. B. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86121044
Baynham, Elizabeth, 1958- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98037283

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

9780198152873
0198152876

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42810834

LCCN:

99057300

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)