Greek Alexander Romance

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141907116

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The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman Pdf

Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.

Author : Pseudo-Callisthenes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140445602

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The Greek Alexander Romance by Pseudo-Callisthenes Pdf

Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander’s death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history’s greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander’s ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.

Author : Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431043

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The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East by Richard Stoneman,Kyle Erickson,Ian Richard Netton Pdf

Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations and religions of these regions, or was he a hero of the Persian dynasties and of Islam? The conflicting views that were taken of him in the Middle East in his own time and the centuries that followed are still reflected in the tensions that exist between east and west today. The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early as the third century AD. From these beginnings it reached into the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, into Jewish traditions, and into the Quran and subsequent Arab romance. The papers in this volume all have the aim of deepening our understanding of this complex development. If we can understand better why Alexander is such an important figure in both east and west, we shall be a little closer to understanding what unites two often antipathetic worlds. This volume collects the papers delivered at the conference of the same title held at the University of Exeter from July 26-29 2010. More than half the papers were by invited speakers and were designed to provide a systematic view of the subject; the remainder were selected for their ability to carry research forward in an integrated way.

Author : Krzysztof Nawotka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335226

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The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes by Krzysztof Nawotka Pdf

The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes is a historical commentary on a third century AD Greek fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. The text is used as a source for the Ancient History of Greece, Macedonia and Egypt.

Author : Markus Stock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442644663

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Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages by Markus Stock Pdf

In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and discovery, but also as representations of otherness, migration, translation, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Brought together in this wide-ranging collection, these essays testify to the enduring fascination and transcultural adaptability of medieval stories about the extraordinary Macedonian leader.

Author : Krzysztof Nawotka,Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789492444738

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The Alexander Romance by Krzysztof Nawotka,Agnieszka Wojciechowska Pdf

The Alexander Romance is a difficult text to define and to assess justly. From its earliest days it was an open text, which was adapted into a variety of cultures with meanings that themselves vary, and yet seem to carry a strong undercurrent of homogeneity: Alexander is the hero who cannot become a god, and who encapsulates the desires and strivings of the host cultures. The papers assembled in this volume, which were originally presented at a conference at the University of Wroc?aw, Poland, in October 2015, all face the challenge of defining the Alexander Romance. Some focus on quite specific topics while others address more overarching themes. They form a cohesive set of approaches to the delicate positioning of the text between history and literature. From its earliest elements in Hellenistic Egypt, to its latest reworkings in the Byzantine and Islamic Middle East, the Alexander Romance shows itself to be a work that steadily engages with such questions as kingship, the limits of human (and Greek) nature, and the purpose of history. The Romance began as a history, but only by becoming literature could it achieve such a deep penetration of east and west.

Author : Pseudo-Callisthenes,Nikoletta S. Trachoulia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Byzantine literature
ISBN : 9602563362

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The Greek Alexander romance by Pseudo-Callisthenes,Nikoletta S. Trachoulia Pdf

Author : Roberta Casagrande-Kim,Samuel Thrope,Raquel Ukeles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691181844

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Romance and Reason by Roberta Casagrande-Kim,Samuel Thrope,Raquel Ukeles Pdf

Romance and reason : Islamic transformations of the classical past / Samuel Thrope, Raquel Ukeles -- The Alexander romance / Julia Rubanovich -- Picturing the archetypal king: Iskandar in Islamic painting / Rachel Milstein -- Islamic medicine : refractions of the classical past / Leigh Chipman -- Mathematics, astronomy, and astrology / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Rationalizing the divine : Greek philosophy in the Islamic world / Steven Harvey.

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300112030

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Alexander the Great by Richard Stoneman Pdf

Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther—across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. This engaging and handsomely illustrated book for the first time gathers together hundreds of the colorful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe. Richard Stoneman, a foremost expert on the Alexander myths, introduces us first to the historical Alexander and then to the Alexander of legend, an unparalleled mythic icon who came to represent the heroic ideal in cultures from Egypt to Iceland, from Britain to Malaya. Alexander came to embody the concerns of Hellenistic man; he fueled Roman ideas on tyranny and kingship; he was a talisman for fourth-century pagans and a hero of chivalry in the early Middle Ages. He appears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic writings, frequently as a prophet of God. Whether battling winged foxes or meeting with the Amazons, descending to the underworld or inventing the world’s first diving bell, Alexander inspired as a hero, even a god. Stoneman traces Alexander’s influence in ancient literature and folklore and in later literatures of east and west. His book provides the definitive account of the legends of Alexander the Great—a powerful leader in life and an even more powerful figure in the history of literature and ideas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004359932

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great has something for everyone who is interested in the life and afterlife of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great.

Author : David Zuwiyya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004183452

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A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages by David Zuwiyya Pdf

Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.

Author : Diodorus Siculus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191078064

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The Library, Books 16-20 by Diodorus Siculus Pdf

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in Europe The Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily is one of our most valuable sources from ancient times. His history, in forty volumes, was intended to range from mythological times to 60 BCE, and fifteen of The Library's forty books survive. This new translation by Robin Waterfield of books 16-20 covers a vital period in European history. Book 16 is devoted to Philip, and without it the career of this great king would be far more obscure to us. Book 17 is the earliest surviving account by over a hundred years of the world-changing eastern conquests of Alexander the Great, Philip's son. Books 18-20 constitute virtually our sole source of information on the twenty turbulent years following Alexander's death and on the violent path followed by Agathocles of Syracuse. There are fascinating snippets of history from elsewhere too - from Republican Rome, the Cimmerian Bosporus, and elsewhere. Despite his obvious importance, Diodorus is a neglected historian. This is the first English translation of any of these books in over fifty years. The introduction places Diodorus in his context in first-century-BCE Rome, describes and discusses the kind of history he was intending to write, and assesses his strengths and weaknesses as a historian. With extensive explanatory notes on this gripping and sensational period of history, the book serves as a unique resource for historians and students.

Author : ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799375

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Greek Fiction by ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107167698

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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture by Richard Stoneman Pdf

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Author : B. P. Reardon
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520305595

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Collected Ancient Greek Novels by B. P. Reardon Pdf

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.