Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes

A Historical Commentary

AvKrzysztof Nawotka

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography of Alexander the Great, the anonymous Historia Alexandri Magni. It is a historical commentary which identifies all names and places in this piece of Greek literature approached as a source for the history of Alexander the Great, from kings, like Nectanebo II of Egypt and Darius III of Persia, to fictional characters. It discusses real and imaginary geography of the Alexander Romance. While dealing with all aspects of Ps.-Callisthenes relevant to Greek history and to Macedonia, its pays particular attention to aspects of ancient history and culture of Babylonia and Egypt and to the multi-layered foundation story of Alexandria.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-16
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska, Klassisk grekiska
Serie:Mnemosyne, Supplements
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004335219

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Krzysztof Nawotka, Ph.D. (1991), The Ohio State University, is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He has published on Greek history, including The Western Pontic Cities: History and Political Organization (1997), Alexander the Great (2010), Boule and Demos in Miletus and its Pontic Colonies (2014).

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"This book represents a welcome contribution to a surge of recent studies on the Greek Alexander Romance. (...) Nawotka provides the first full commentary in English. The choice of language will ensure that the commentary reaches an even wider scholarly community, which is useful because Nawotka collates and updates much of the previous scholarship on the text. Taken together with the previous and forthcoming publications on the greater Alexander tradition from Wroclaw, this book builds momentum for further study of the text’s origins and development." Christian Thrue Djurslev, Bryn Mawr Classical Review , 2018.04.47