Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction

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This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars within the field of Alexander studies which represent essentially the most advanced scholarship on this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and, viewed as a whole, represent a wide spectrum of methodology. This first English selection of essays on Alexander features a comparison of the Spanish conquest of Mexico with the Macedonians within the east which examines the attitudes towards the subject peoples and the justification of conquest, an analysis of the attested conspiracies on the Macedonian and Persian courts, and studies of panhellenic ideology and the concept that of kingship. There’s a radical new interpretation of the hunting fresco from Tomb II at Vergina, and a new date for the pamphlet on Alexander’s death which ends the Alexander Romance. Three chapters on historiography address the issue of interpreting Alexander’s attested behavior, the indirect source tradition used by Polybius, and the resonances of recent politics within the extant histories.

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