Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend - Softcover

Stoneman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300164017 ISBN 13: 9780300164015

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2010

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Book by Stoneman Richard

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"The first full-scale study in over 50 years of the Alexander Romance and its legacy in English. . . . Particularly interesting is the author's discussion of the rich medieval Persian Alexander literature-both Zoroastrian and Islamic-and its influence. This fascinating book belongs in every university and college library Essential."-Choice * Choice * "The volume is highly informative in its goal of tracing the evolution of thought about Alexander through the centuries."-Dawn L. Gilley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review -- Dawn L. Gilley * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * "This is an unusual and thought-provoking book that should appeal to both Alexander buffs and well-informed general readers."-Booklist * Booklist *

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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.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300164017
• ISBN 13: 9780300164015
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336