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Brill's companion to Alexander the Great / edited by Joseph Roisman. - 1 online resource (xv, 400 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. - The classical tradition . - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies. Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-388) and index.

Preliminary material / Chapter One: The Ancient Evidence for Alexander the Great / Chapter Two: Alexander in Greek and Roman Art / Chapter Three: Alexander, Philip, and the Macedonian Background / Chapter Four: Alexander and the Greeks / Chapter Five: Alexander: The Military Campaign / Chapter Six: The Indian Campaigns, 327-325 BC / Chapter Seven: Alexander and the Persians / Chapter Eight: King and \'Companions:\' Observations on the Nature of Power in the Reign of Alexander / Chapter Nine: Women in Alexander's Court / Chapter Ten: Alexander's Religion and Divinity / Chapter Eleven: Honor in Alexander's Campaign / Chapter Twelve: The legacy of Alexander in Ancient Philosophy / Chapter Thirteen: Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Conflict / Bibliography / Index / Joseph Roisman -- Elizabeth Baynham -- Andrew Stewart -- Ian Worthington -- Michele Faraguna -- Barry S. Strauss -- A. Brian Bosworth -- Maria Brosius -- Waldemar Heckel -- Elizabeth D. Gamey -- Ernst Fredricksmeyer -- Joseph Roisman -- Richard Stoneman -- Loring M. DarifOrth -- Joseph Roisman -- Joseph Roisman.

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Many important issues surrounding Alexander the Great's conquest have captured the interest of scholars and general readers since antiquity. This book acquaints us with these issues and their current interpretations, and opens up new directions of investigation as it confronts them. It covers a broad range of topics: the ancients' representations of the king in literature and art; Alexander's relations with Greeks, Macedonians, and the peoples of Asia; the military, political, sociological, and cultural aspects of his campaigns; the exploitation of his story by ancient philosophers to argue a moral point and by modern communities to affirm or contest ethnic and national identities. This volume will be of interest to scholars and nonspecialists alike and serve as a standard reference work for years to come.

ISBN: 9789004217553

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004217553 DOI

Subjects--Personal Names:
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 146 B.C.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Generals--Greece--Biography.
Generals.
Kings and rulers.
Politics and government.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Greece--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
Greece.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.
History.

LC Class. No.: DF234 / .B75 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 938.07092