Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to classical studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Moore, Kenneth Royce, 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (879 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Preface --; List of Contributors --; Ancient Greek, Roman and Persian Receptions --; Framing the Debate /; Attic Orators on Alexander the Great /; The Reception of Alexander’s Father Philip II of Macedon /; The Reception of Alexander in the Ptolemaic Dynasty /; Alexander after Alexander: Macedonian Propaganda and Historical Memory in Ptolemy and Aristobulus’ Writings /; The Reception of Alexander in Hellenistic Art /; Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds /; Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History /; Beyond Persianization: The Adoption of Near Eastern Traditions by Alexander the Great /; Sons of Heracles: Antony and Alexander in the Late Republic /; The Ambivalent Model: Alexander in the Greek World between Politics and Literature (1st Century BC / beg. 1st Century AD) /; The Latin Alexander: Constructing Roman Identity /; Alexander the Great in Seneca’s Works and in Lucan’s Bellum Civile /; Plutarch’s Alexander /; Later Receptions in the Near- and Far-East and the Romance Tradition --; Alexander in the Jewish tradition: From Second Temple Writings to Hebrew Alexander Romances /; Jews, Samaritans and Alexander: Facts and Fictions in Jewish Stories on the Meeting of Alexander and the High Priest /; The Reception of Alexander the Great in Roman, Byzantine and Early Modern Egypt /; Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great /; Church Fathers and the Reception of Alexander the Great /; Medieval and Renaissance Italian Receptions of the Alexander Romance Tradition /; Syriac and Persian Versions of the Alexander Romance /; “Modern” and Postmodern Receptions --; Alexander and Napoleon /; The Men Who Would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and His Graeco-Bactrian Successors in the Raj /; Receptions of Alexander in Johann Gustav Droysen /; “The Unmanly Ruler”: Bagoas, Alexander’s Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception /; Alexander’s Image in German, Anglo-American and French Scholarship from the Aftermath of World War I to the Cold War /; Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956) /; Go East, Young Man: Adventuring in the Spirit of Alexander /; The Great Misstep: Alexander the Great, Thais, and the Destruction of Persepolis /; Avoiding Nation Building in Afghanistan: An Absent Insight from Alexander /; The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander /; Alexander the Great Screaming Out for Hellenicity: Greek Songs and Political Dissent /; The Conscience of the King: Alexander the Great and the Ancient Disabled /
• ISBN: 9004359931
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great offers a considerable range of topics, of interest to students and academics alike, in the long tradition of this subject’s significant impact, across a sometimes surprising and comprehensive variety of areas. Arguably no other historical figure has cast such a long shadow for so long a time. Every civilisation touched by the Macedonian Conqueror, along with many more that he never imagined, has scrambled to “own” some part of his legacy. This volume canvasses a comprehensive array of these receptions, beginning from Alexander’s own era and journeying up to the present, in order to come to grips with the impact left by this influential but elusive figure.