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Book SynopsisRecent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection cast a wider net, to show how Classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted and sometimes misinterpreted information on ancient Macedonians to serve their own literary and political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the historiographical tradition, this volume shows that the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history largely occurred much earlier. This yields a richer and more balanced reflection of both the history and the historiography of this important and controversial people.
Table of ContentsPART I SUCCESSION AND THE ROLE OF ROYAL WOMEN 1 A Founding Mother? Eurydike I, Philip II and Macedonian Royal Mythology
Timothy Howe, St. Olaf Collegem Royal Women as Succession Advocates
Elizabeth Carney, Clemson University 3 A Roman Olympias: Powerful Women in the
Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus
Rebecca Frank, University of Virginia PART II
PHILIA, POLITICS AND ALLIANCES 4 Was Kallisthenes the Tutor of Alexander’s Royal Pages?
Frances Pownall, University of Alberta 5 Hephaistion – A Reassessment of his Career
Sabine Müller, Philipps University Marburg 6 Friendship and Betrayal: The Alliances among the Diadochoi
Alexander Meeus, University of Mannheim PART III ROYAL SELF-PRESENTATION AND IDEOLOGY 7 The Animal Types on the Argead Coinage, Wilderness and Macedonia
Victor Alonso Troncoso, University of La Coruña 8 Alexander as Achilles: Arrian’s use of Homer from Troy to the Granikos
Hugh Bowden, King’s College London 9 The Grand Procession,
Galaterschlacht, and Ptolemaic Kingship
Paul Johstono, The Citadel PART IV THE MEMORY OF ALEXANDER 10 Legends of Seleukos’ death, from omens to revenge
Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter and UNISA 11 The memory of Alexander in Plutarch’s Lives of Demetrios, Pyrrhos, and Eumenes
Sulochana Asirvatham, Montclair State University Index
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