Alexander the Great: A New History

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Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle
John Wiley & Sons, 09.03.2009 - 392 Seiten
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Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures.
  • Written by leading experts in the field
  • Looks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality, the influence of his legacy, and his representations in art and cinema
  • Discusses Alexander's influence, from his impact on his contemporaries to his portrayals in recent Hollywood films
  • A highly informed and enjoyable resource for students and interested general readers
 

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Inhalt

Introduction
1
Alexanders Conquest of Asia
26
Herculaneum
31
The Diadochi or Successors to Alexander
53
A King and His Army
69
The Court of Alexander the Great as Social System
83
Alexander and the Greeks
99
Alexander and the Greeks
121
Alexanders Sex Life
203
Heroes Cults and Divinity
218
Great praising the god AmunRa
220
Alexanders Image in the Age of the Successors
235
Roman Alexanders
251
The Construction of a New Ideal
275
Power Passion and Patrons
294
Bibliography
311

Alexander and the Persian Empire between Decline
171
Alexander and his Terrible Mother
189
Index
349
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Achaemenid Alex Alexander Alexander’s Alexander’s death Amyntas ancient Antigonus Antipater Aramaic Argead army Arrian Artaxerxes Artaxerxes III artists Asia Minor Athenians Athens Attalus Babylon Bactria Badian Bagoas battle Berve Bosworth 1988a Briant Brun Brun’s Caesar Callisthenes campaign Carney Cassander century Cleitus Cleopatra command confirmed conquest context court Craterus cult Curt Curtius Darius Darius III defined deification Demetr Demetrius Diadochi difficult Diodorus discussion documents Droysen dynastic Egypt Eumenes evidence exiles father FGrH fig figure finally find first fleet Greece Greek Habicht Harpalus Heckel hegemon Hellenistic Hephaestion Heracles hetairoi influence king king’s League Lycia Lysimachus Macedonian Mazday military officers official Olympias Parmenion Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian empire Philip Philotas Phocion Pixodarus Plutarch political Pompey Pompey’s Porus proskynesis Ptolemy reflect reign relationship Rhodes–Osborne role Roman Rome royal ruler satrap scholars Seleucus sexual significance sources specific status Successors synedrion Tarn texts tion tradition troops

Über den Autor (2009)

Waldemar Heckel is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. His publications include Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great (Blackwell, 2005), Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (with J.C. Yardley, Blackwell, 2003), Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander (with L.A. Tritle, 2003), The Wars of Alexander the Great (2002), and The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992).

Lawrence A. Tritle is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. He is author and editor of The Peloponnesian War (2004), From Melos to My Lai. War and Survival (2000), The Greek World in the Fourth Century (1997) and Phocion the Good (1988), as well as numerous articles on Greek history.

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TitelAlexander the Great: A New History
HerausgeberWaldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle
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VerlagJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009
ISBN1405130814, 9781405130813
Länge392 Seiten
  
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